Media Week

Some media owners and agency leaders would be forgiven for greeting news of Media Week’s closure with initial relief on Tuesday. It’s never easy being watched, let alone reported on and critiqued as well. And in the current climate, where every major...

Coverage of the UK media business will be among the casualties of the upcoming restructure at The Observer in 2010. As details of the cost-cutting drive at one of the country’s oldest national newspapers start to emerge , it transpires the Business &...

Last night’s Media Week Awards at the Grosvenor proved yet again that no one parties like the media fraternity. While other ‘big’ awards have been, well, rather less big this year, Media Week’s annual bash was as large and as vibrant as ever, with more...

Channel 4’s departing chief executive Andy Duncan has no plans to go quietly at the end of this year, as proved by last week’s announcement of a ground-breaking content tie-up between the broadcaster and YouTube . By the time Duncan is carrying the last...

Martin Sorrell, chief executive of WPP and one of adland's best known soothsayers, has dramatically revised his stance on the viability of publishers charging for content online following comments from the quintessential newspaper man, Rupert Murdoch...

And so it comes to pass, News International's most popular daily newspaper The Sun has declared its allegiance to David Cameron's Tories. The Sun tells its readers in no uncertain terms today to vote Conservative at the next election, effectively...

In a move that will shock the city and the media industry alike, ITV has announced Tony Ball is no longer in the running to be its next chief executive , after a failing to reach agreement over terms and conditions. The eleventh hour collapse throws ITV...

‘The summer’s over, I’ve had time to think about it, I want to quit,’ appears to be the mantra being followed by many high-profile media execs this month. Recession or not, September has lived up to its billing as the month which gets headhunters hearts...

Shock news yesterday that the plug will be pulled on the mighty Teletex service at the end of year. Who would have thought having a news service broadcast in the shape of a screen full of text, the occasional block graphic and even different coloured...

News that Reuters, the long-established bastion of British news gathering, looks set to disappear from the London Stock Exchange passed without much comment last week, instead cold pragmatism was the order of the day. The board of the now Thomson Reuters...

“First, I have to start with an apology, we’ve spotted a mistake in the report… has anyone else spotted it yet?” As far as agenda-setting Government launches go, Lord Carter’s opening gambit to the press pack at the RSA as he unveiled Digital Britain...

For all his company’s progressive attitude to online, the seasoned publisher-turned-poet Felix Dennis remains a resolute technophobe. In an interview earlier this month , he told me he’d never had an email address, and for the sake of staff morale perhaps...

The future of the free weekly men's magazine Sport hangs in the balance today following news that its French parent company, Sport Media & Strategie, has gone into administration. We're told the last issue of the magazine, which employs 24...

As images of the City of London under siege are transmitted around the world, some serious questions regarding the media’s involvement in the G20 demonstrations must be asked. Photos of bloodied protesters clashing with baton-wielding police fill the...

Bauer’s decision to close Arena today shuts the chapter on a 22-year-old rollercoaster ride never before seen in men’s magazines. When Arena first hit the newsstands in the winter of 1986 the UK and its media was a very different place. The year had started...