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 launch or account win is offset by a deluge of loses...
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 & Media section will be folded into the main paper...
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 than 1,300 attendees representing media owners,...
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 of his belongings from the shiny building in Victoria...
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. Speaking at an industry event in Greece last...
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 ending 12 years and 7 months of "support"...
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 into chaos and follows rumours of Ball demanding...
‘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 racing. Today’s news that Andy Brent, group brand...
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 fonts would ever look tired? And this is a service...
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 enterprise unanimously agreed that “unifying the...
