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Traditional media may have been a vale of tears for most of its proponents over the past 15 years or so, but not for Richard Desmond. Now the former owner of Channel 5 (below) – sold to Viacom for £463m ...

Trinity Mirror CEO Simon Fox is a brave man. Now he’s on the brink of buying Richard Desmond’s Northern & Shell publishing empire, publisher of the Express newspapers and OK! magazine, for a top price of £135m. Desmond bought the ...

Will anything come from a resumption of talks between Trinity Mirror and Richard Desmond, owner of the Express newspapers and OK? Sooner or later there’ll be a major rationalisation of Britain’s national newspapers, as there has been in local papers, ...

I see that Stan Myerson, Richard Desmond’s number two and “brother-in-arms” is retiring. The British newspaper industry had never seen anything quite like Desmond and Myerson (below, centre, with BT’s Gavin Patterson and Ian Livingston) when they descended on the ...

To anyone who can remember the high old days of Fleet Street, when the nation’s hacks proudly strutted their stuff, although not necessarily in the straightest of lines, the notion of the Express and Mirror getting together seems downright preposterous. ...

***More from the wonderful world of adland and its parallel universe of ridiculous pay awards: WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell trousered £29.8m in 2013, despite having his base pay reduced after shareholders moaned quite loudly about his previous pay packet. ...

We haven’t always been UK media entrepreneur Richard Desmond’s biggest fan – he started out at the tacky end of tacky with porn magazines (where he still resides with some of his TV channels) – but the boy certainly has ...

Here’s my chum Mark Sweney from the Guardian bearding WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell (left) on the alleged bullying activities of his media buying giant GroupM, recently criticised by both Richard Desmond of Channel 5 and (on its grip on TV ...

If there’s one thing stranger than Channel 5 and Express Newspapers owner Richard Desmond (‘Dirty Dickie’ to his enemies because of his ownership of porn TV channels) addressing the august Royal Television Society, it’s the maverick tycoon taking a pot ...