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, ...
Read More »Now CNN drops under-fire chat show host Piers Morgan
2014 isn’t turning out very well for Piers Morgan (left) so far. The former Daily Mirror editor and would-be US TV superstar’s peak-time chat show Piers Morgan Live has just been dropped by US news channel CNN as it grapples ...
Read More »Phone hacking spotlight falls on Trinity Mirror papers
A rather large cat jumped out of the bag in the phone hacking trial at the Old Bailey in London yesterday. Former Sunday Mirror journalist Dan Evans (left), appearing as a witness for the prosecution, claimed that he had hacked ...
Read More »Sue Douglas and Rupert Howell finally take over Trinity Mirror’s Sunday People – sort of
It started out as a quixotic venture to buy Richard Desmond’s Daily Star Sunday, then moved to a mooted £10m bid for Trinity Mirror’s Sunday People (one of those newspapers you’d forgotten had existed). Now it appears that Douglas (left), ...
Read More »Now a gaggle of Mirror editors are arrested in Met Police phone hacking probe
Whatever took them so long? Plod has finally pounced on four miscreant Mirror Group journalists in a dawn raid conducted by the Weeting (phone hacking) team. And what a haul it has proved to be. The four include the first ...
Read More »Rupert Howell set to be CEO of the People if Sue Douglas consortium raises £10m sale price
Rupert Howell (left), a founder of the HHCL agency, boss of McCann in London and former client sales supremo at ITV, is set to be the CEO of the People tabloid newspaper if Journalist Sue Douglas’s consortium succeeds in raising ...
Read More »The Guardian, The Times and Trinity Mirror all face a fight for survival in 2013
At this time of year – in the UK at least – we hear a lot about the impending doom for a number of high street retailers (so far unspecified) who are struggling to pay their next quarterly rent bill ...
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