Peston for ITV – a coup or an own goal?

October 5, 2015 Comments Off on Peston for ITV – a coup or an own goal?

ITV has secured a coup – or has it? – by poaching the BBC’s high profile economics editor Robert Peston (left) as its new political editor. Apparently Pesto is to present an ITV Sunday morning show, up against the Beeb’s ...

Are John Humphrys and Robert Peston justified in dumping on the BBC?

November 12, 2012 Comments Off on Are John Humphrys and Robert Peston justified in dumping on the BBC?

I only ask because there’s post from BBC business editor Robert Peston on his BBC Online blog today commencing: Helen Boaden and Steve Mitchell have been asked to surrender all their responsibilities as head and deputy head of BBC News, ...

Is it time to stop laying into Rupert Murdoch?

May 2, 2012 Comments Off on Is it time to stop laying into Rupert Murdoch?

Why should we, you ask, when it’s so much fun? It is indeed fun to observe the over-mighty Murdochs, paterfamilias Rupert and once super-cocky son James suffering the slings and arrows of the commentariat, various MPs and, rather more worryingly ...

BBC boss Mark Thompson to step down after the Olympics – did he do a good job?

March 19, 2012 Comments Off on BBC boss Mark Thompson to step down after the Olympics – did he do a good job?

Mark Thompson (pictured) has been director-general of the BBC since 2004 when he came back to the corporation from a short stint at Channel 4 as the Beeb reeled from the enforced departure of Greg Dyke. Dyke, a former boss ...

Independent shareholders want James Murdoch out of News Corporation

October 25, 2011 Comments Off on Independent shareholders want James Murdoch out of News Corporation

About 80 per cent of non-aligned or independent shareholders do anyway according to this analysis by the BBC’s Robert Peston of votes cast at last Friday’s AGM of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation. Nearly as many want elder brother Lachlan to ...

Murdoch drops BSkyB bid – is hanging on to News Corp’s 39 per cent stake now the priority?

July 13, 2011 Comments Off on Murdoch drops BSkyB bid – is hanging on to News Corp’s 39 per cent stake now the priority?

Rupert Murdoch has pulled News Corporation’s bid to buy the 61 per cent of BSkyB it doesn’t own saying the ‘current climate’ makes it impossible. This happened shortly before the House of Commons was due to debate a motion opposing ...

News of the World prepares to take £20m hit after admitting phone hacking

April 8, 2011 Comments Off on News of the World prepares to take £20m hit after admitting phone hacking

The News of the World and its ultimate owner Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation have finally admitted that phone hacking at the paper went much further than the activities of royal correspondent Clive Goodman and his private eye sidekick Glenn Mulcaire ...

Can Sky News survive and prosper as an independent company?

March 4, 2011 Comments Off on Can Sky News survive and prosper as an independent company?

Some say it can (The BBC’s Robert Peston who points out that the putative deal with BSkyB is likely to mean a 14-year news provider’s licence in practice), others, like former Sky News boss Andrew Neil, speaking on the BBC, ...

What’s going to happen to the global economy? Here’s what the BBC’s Robert Peston thinks

January 17, 2011 Comments Off on What’s going to happen to the global economy? Here’s what the BBC’s Robert Peston thinks

Robert Peston is the BBC’s business editor and the former banking editor of the Financial Times. As such he knows more about the travails of the world’s financial system (aka banks) than just about anyone else. This is his presentation ...