BBC offers surfers five decades of daily news
20 Jan 2003 | by Jennifer Whitehead,
LONDON - Web users are being offered access to 52 years of BBC news stories via a new website that the corporation is launching today.
NEW YORK - Peter Goldmark has said he has been forced to leave his job as the chairman and chief executive officer of the International Herald Tribune, following the New York Times Company taking full control of the paper.
LONDON - Web users are being offered access to 52 years of BBC news stories via a new website that the corporation is launching today.
LONDON - Hand Picked Hotels, the company that runs hotels in unusual English and Welsh locations, has hired M&C Saatchi agency LIDA to build its website after a six-way pitch.
LONDON - The run-up to Christmas 2002 saw the strongest performance by internet retailers in the UK, according to the latest data from Nielsen//NetRatings, with as many as 12.8m surfers visiting an e-commerce site during December.
LONDON - Kevin Roberts, CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi Worldwide, is to add the chairman role to his title and spend more time in the Publicis Group-owned agency's New York office as part a shake-up at the agency.
LONDON - WPP Group and Lord Hollick's United Business Media are believed to be in the running to buy the market research firm that the troubled US advertising firm Interpublic is looking to sell for what is likely to be a massive loss.
LONDON - Last year was the most successful year for cinema for 30 years, with admissions up 13% on 2001 to 176m, according to figures released from the Cinema Advertising Association.
LONDON - Associated Newspapers is set to raise the cover price of its London daily newspaper the Evening Standard by 5p to 40p.
LONDON - Mean Fiddler, the entertainment group behind the Reading Festival and Fleadh, is to bring its country music radio station MeanCountry to SkyDigital.
LONDON - The elegantly wasted youth of Levi's advertising campaigns are to be replaced by 'mice people' in a £2.5m campaign set to hit television screens next month.