19 Sep 2011
| by Media Bitch
This week, Sir Martin Sorrell gets the Richard Nixon treatment, former chart-topper Jamelia takes a little temporary radio job, and the Oscar Wilde comparisons come out.
Rupert Murdoch, chief executive and chairman of News Corporation, refused to take responsibility for the phone hacking scandal in yesterday's dramatic session of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee.
The Conservative Party has admitted that managing director of public relations agency the Outside Organisation and former News of the World executive editor Neil Wallis provided "informal advice" to Andy Coulson, the party's head of communications and former editor of the News of the World.
02 Mar 2011
| by PR Week
The Olympic Park Legacy Company has appointed a new chief of media and external affairs.
Downing Street's decision to remove business secretary Vince Cable from his part in the Murdoch/BSkyB bid following the secret recording of a conversation with undercover journalists raises "serious issues of journalism ethics" at the Daily Telegraph, according to a leading industry figure.
Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt will take over Vince Cable's responsibilities for media and telecoms, after the Lib Dem business secretary "declared war" on Rupert Murdoch's plans to take over BSkyB.
21 Oct 2010
| by Arif Durrani
Rupert Murdoch, the founder, chairman and chief executive of News Corporation, heaped praise on Margaret Thatcher for 'expanding the boundaries of freedom' tonight, before turning to bloggers and why they will never replace journalists.
LONDON - Prime minister Gordon Brown has today defended plans to add an additional £6 charge per phone line across the UK to help fund superfast broadband for all.
LONDON - Rupert Murdoch, the owner of News Corporation, has made a veiled criticism of the latest digital technology and called on Gulf states to open up their markets to competition from Western media companies.
08 Jan 2010
| by Maisie McCabe
LONDON - Beta, the ad agency behind the OAA's now defunct "Career women make bad mothers" outdoor campaign has moved to diffuse a potential legal clash with the online mothers' forum Mumsnet.