A couple of days ago we reported on the plan by former adman Rupert Howell and journalist Sue Douglas to buy Richard Desmond’s Daily Star Sunday, a move that seemed odd in the extreme as newspapers are hardly booming in ...
Read More »Rupert Howell and Sue Douglas mull new Sunday tabloid contender – are they mad or really mad?
Sue Douglas, who used to be a big noise at the Sunday Times and then at Conde Nast, and Rupert Howell (left), one of the H’s in HHCL and then the boss of McCann Europe and the chief salesman at ...
Read More »AMV/BBDO springs an emotional surprise for the UK’s National Lottery
This is an interesting ad for the UK’s National Lottery: instead of focussing on the joys of winning it shows one of the 370,000 ‘good causes’ the Lottery supports. And the ad from AMV/BBDO could hardly be more downbeat, although ...
Read More »Exclusive! Outside Organisation’s Alan Edwards on why the UK PR business still needs the tabloids
Forget Max Clifford, The Outside Organisation’s Alan Edwards is the doyen of the populist PR world. Edwards began his career in the music business (like Clifford), acting for the likes of Sir Paul McCartney and David Bowie before broadening Outside’s ...
Read More »Hollywood Reporter’s Mimi Turner takes the hottest of hot seats at Northern & Shell
This is a job and a half and no mistake. Mimi Turner (pictured), European television editor of the Hollywood Reporter, is joining Richard Desmond’s Northern & Shell as its first group communications director. Desmond owns UK terrestrial broadcaster Channel 5 ...
Read More »Murdoch says it’s to be The Sun on Sunday – did old mate Martin Sorrell have anything to do with this?
Well I only ask because: Rupert Murdoch’s statement today that he backs the Sun, wants to be bring back all the suspended (and arrested) journalists and still wants to launch The Sun on Sunday (‘in the near future”) flies in ...
Read More »D-Day for Murdoch as he tells Sun journalists we’re not going to close the paper
News Corporation owner Rupert Murdoch is due to appear in the Sun’s London newsroom today to reassure them that he won’t sell them down the river (the Thames flows nearby) in the wake of a number of arrests of senior ...
Read More »Express owner Richard Desmond skewered by Leveson Inquiry over treatment of McCann family
It’s very rare to see a real live media magnate skewered in public but that’s what happened yesterday to Express Newspapers (and Channel 5) owner Richard Desmond yesterday at the Leveson Inquiry into media ethics in the UK. Desmond even ...
Read More »Digby in, Perry out as new C4 sales boss Jonathan Allan tries to find his seven per cent solution
New Channel 4 sales boss Jonathan Allan (pictured), who joined a month ago from Omnicom’s OMD where he was managing director, has wasted no time ringing the changes at the UK broadcaster. Head of airtime sales Mick Perry, who joined ...
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