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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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...