It’s not our job to puff up rival organs but The Drum provides a valuable service in having reporters at court, or at least accessing news feeds from there. The current entertainment at the Old Bailey is the trial of ...
Read More »Brooks, Sorrell, Murphy…what do the next few months hold for adland’s movers and shakers?
In many ways, the business year starts in September. CEOs come back from their holidays with batteries recharged and new worlds to conquer. Or just the desire to hang on to their job. So who, in the world of advertising, ...
Read More »Why Rupert Murdoch needs Rebekah Brooks back
The mooted return of Rebekah Brooks to head Rupert Murdoch’s British print empire – which now includes The Times, the Sunday Times, the Sun, various book publishing interests and the Sun on Sunday (successor to Brooks’ former fiefdom the News ...
Read More »George Parker: Rebekah Brooks to return as Murdoch’s top bod? You couldn’t make it up..
Who says there are no second acts? With the news last week that Rebekah “Medusa Hair” Brooks (left) is returning to the “Wizened of Oz’s” evil empire in a super, super senior position, it just goes to prove that it ...
Read More »“They all knew about it” says News of the World’s Thurlbeck as he speaks after phone hacking verdicts
It was, indeed, “slightly sad,” as phone hacking trail judge Lord Justice Saunders remarked, that former New of the World chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck (left, who pleaded guilty to phone hacking along with some NoW colleagues) had chosen to give ...
Read More »Now the focus is on the Murdochs as phone hacking legal investigation enters a new phase
There may still be lots of trials to come in the never-ending phone hacking scandal even after the the conclusion of the first round of prosecutions which saw former News of the World editor Andy Coulson found guilty and his ...
Read More »Andy Coulson convicted of phone hacking, Rebekah Brooks and co found innocent
What to make of the verdicts in the great phone hacking trial? Former News of the World editor, Downing Street head of communications and lover of Rebekah Brooks Andy Coulson (left) has been found guilty of conspiring to hack phones ...
Read More »A&E + Google to boost under-fire Manchester United, dazzling digital Swedish OOH, the joys of (NoW) editing
Football club Manchester United is not enjoying life at the moment; seeing its results on the pitch disappoint and its stock market price fall. But it’s only a game isn’t it? But Adam&Eve/DDB, which has become the go-to agency for ...
Read More »Phone hacking spotlight falls on Trinity Mirror papers
A rather large cat jumped out of the bag in the phone hacking trial at the Old Bailey in London yesterday. Former Sunday Mirror journalist Dan Evans (left), appearing as a witness for the prosecution, claimed that he had hacked ...
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