20 Dec 2002
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - Red is to celebrate its fifth birthday in February with a special celebrity issue featuring Heather Mills McCartney, among others, who will use the occasion to dispel rumours of a feud with daughter-in-law Stella McCartney by wearing a dress designed by her stepdaughter.
19 Dec 2002
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - Business a.m., the Scottish daily financial newspaper, faces almost certain closure after a rescue package put together by financial publisher Angus MacDonald was scotched because of European employment legislation.
19 Dec 2002
| by Jennifer Whitehead,
LONDON - Haircare brand John Frieda has named Zenith Optimedia as its sole European media planning and buying agency, following its acquisition by Kao in August 2002.
19 Dec 2002
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - Hachette Filipacchi UK has moved its magazine distribution business out of Emap-owned Frontline and into IPC Media distributor Marketforce.
19 Dec 2002
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - Regional newspaper group Johnston Press is selling off the Writers News business it bought as part of its acquisition of Regional Independent Media in April to Warners Group Publications.
19 Dec 2002
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - IPC Media is raising the cover price and pagination of its two classic women's titles Women's Own and Woman from their first 2003 issues on January 6.
19 Dec 2002
| by Staff,
NEW YORK - WPP Group media agency Mediaedge:cia has won more work from Citibank, having ousted rival Aegis Group from the bank's US outdoor media business.
19 Dec 2002
| by Staff,
NEW YORK - Chase Carey, the former head of News Corporation's satellite empire Sky Global who resigned after Rupert Murdoch's $18bn (£11.4bn) bid for DirecTV failed, may return if the media baron makes a fresh offer for the US satellite TV firm.
18 Dec 2002
| by Staff,
NEW YORK - The price of the New York Times is to rise to $1 after three years, starting from December 30, knocking into touch the marketing plans of its upstart rival The New York Sun.
LONDON - The Evening Standard has poached The Independent's Claudette Laws to be the new head of planning at its advertising sales team.