18 Dec 2003
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - As many as 50 parties have now declared an interest in buying Hollinger International's newspaper assets, which include the Daily Telegraph, but a decision on a sell-off may not come until the spring at the earliest.
18 Dec 2003
Something pretty weird has been happening to me. I think it's more of this late-youth regression. To be honest, it started a while ago but came to a head just recently and, well, it involves horses, writes Gordon MacMillan .
LONDON - With 570 complaints weighed against it, an ad for Mr Kipling Mince Pies, which shows a woman giving birth during a nativity play, has been pulled from television screens.
18 Dec 2003
| by Staff,
LONDON - Future Publishing has appointed industry veteran Tony Mott as the new editor of its games magazine Edge, which it plans to back with increased distribution and international expansion in 2004.
18 Dec 2003
| by Mark Kleinman,
LONDON - The Post Office is refusing to buy advertising space in The Mail on Sunday for a £10m marketing blitz because of the newspaper's campaign against the closure of rural Post Office branches.
18 Dec 2003
| by Staff,
LONDON - The Daily Telegraph is bringing out a 16-page tabloid supplement on Saturday to mark the landing of the British probe Beagle 2, which is due to land on Mars on Boxing Day.
18 Dec 2003
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - Project Tyson, Emap's new weekly men's magazine, is to hit newsstands in January with advertising deals booked solid for the first six issues.
18 Dec 2003
| by Staff,
LONDON – Google has quietly begun testing a new service, dubbed Google Print, with publishing firms, which will pull together reviews and excepts from novels.
18 Dec 2003
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON – Independent News & Media is to lose as many as 600 staff across its worldwide operations as part of its continued restructuring plan aimed at reducing its levels of debt.
18 Dec 2003
| by Mark Kleinman and Alexandra Jardine,
LONDON - Nestle Rowntree, the UK's third-biggest confectionery firm, has picked a former Coca-Cola marketer as its managing director, an appointment insiders predict will trigger a shake-up of its marketing operations.