What has Rupert Murdoch done to upset the British establishment? After decades of getting his own way over just about everything – even surviving the phone hacking scandal at the now defunct News of the World – the US-based tycoon ...
Read More »Wolff moves on from Adweek editor to White House scourge
Michael Wolff, author of the new Fire and Fury dissection of Donald Trump, had a one-year stint as editor of Adweek in the US in 2010. Unsurprisingly he proved too much of a rich mixture for the trade title’s owners. ...
Read More »Murdoch snaffles Premier League mobile rights to boost The Times; Real Madrid breaks €500m barrier
Football saved Rupert Murdoch’s (part-owned) BSkyB from an early grave and now the ever-active media mogul (in his ninth decade) is hoping it can extend the life-support system for his British newspapers. His News Corporation company News International has secured ...
Read More »The Guardian, The Times and Trinity Mirror all face a fight for survival in 2013
At this time of year – in the UK at least – we hear a lot about the impending doom for a number of high street retailers (so far unspecified) who are struggling to pay their next quarterly rent bill ...
Read More »Murdoch closes iPad paper The Daily – Rupert doesn’t really get new media does he?
Fairly fresh from losing over $500m on MySpace, News Corporation boss Rupert Murdoch has now closed The Daily, his much-trumpeted iPad newspaper. Rupert says: “From its launch, The Daily was a bold experiment in digital publishing and an amazing vehicle ...
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