Tag Archives: Rebekah Brooks

It’s going to be a big year for the Rupert Murdoch’s Sun newspaper in the UK, one of the more profitable planks of his hived-off print business News Corp. The phone and computer hacking and corrupt payments trial of senior ...

According to Adweek Evian’s ‘Baby & Me’ from BETC was the most-watched YouTube ad of 2013 vwith over 67m hits. Well you can’t say fairer than that and, although cute babies are not really our thing, BETC pulls it off ...

A very entertaining drama is being played out at London’s Old Bailey courthouse, best known for celebrated murder trials over the decades. This one, of course, involves lesser matters: charges of phone hacking, bribing public officials and concealing evidence of ...

Even at 82 it seems that the only way to muzzle, let alone control, Rupert Murdoch is to bury a stake in his heart (and hedge your bets with copious quantities of garlic). The one-time Dirty Digger is back in ...

Former News International CEO Rebekah Brooks (left) is finally to have her day in court, over two years after proceedings began against her on various counts including phone hacking, conspiring to commit misconduct in a public office (paying policemen for ...

81-year old Rupert Murdoch is ringing the changes in his newspaper empire as he prepares to spin it off as a separate company next spring. News International boss in the UK Tom Mockridge has already gone after losing out to ...

*The Leveson Inquiry into UK media ethics (or the lack of them) duly reported and proposed a very sensible system of, essentially, self regulation for the UK’s rumbustious national press, with a legal framework preventing the bastards from just ignoring ...

LOL – now he knows what it means – must have been David Cameron’s reaction after reading Lord Leveson’s report on the culture, practice and ethics of the UK press. First came an audible sigh of relief over the vindication ...

I’ve no idea how much has been spent on what we used to call corporate public relations over the last decade but it must run into many billions of whatever currency you choose. Since PR firms had the bright wheeze ...