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The weekend the nation fell for Kate’s boobs

By September 17 2012, 2:19 pm 1,361 Comments

For many, the glorious glow of the Olympics and Paralympics came to an abrupt end this weekend, as unfathomable amounts of copy and airtime filled with stories of a Duchess’ breasts and grubby publishers trying to make a quick buck.

Murdoch no longer sets the news agenda, Twitter does

By January 9 2012, 1:47 pm 1,395 Comments

The hold traditional media outlets like Rupert Murdoch’s have on setting the news agenda is increasingly being superseded by Twitter

Media owners should not be defined by phone-hacking

By November 15 2011, 9:00 am 1,379 Comments

No one is going to defend phone hacking, but you don’t have to be James Murdoch to find this latest survey – commissioned by a US broadcaster recently launched in the UK – over-simplified and more than a tad loaded.

News International tries to focus on ‘Moving forward’

By October 26 2011, 9:00 am 1,298 Comments

Blackhurst: ‘News International is 1% of a multibillion pound business, and it’s that one per cent that brings 90% of the trouble… logic has to tell you they’ll either sell it or close it’

Can The Times, Sunday Times and Telegraph all be best for business?

By September 16 2011, 3:37 pm Leave a comment

Any lift in spirits at News International would have been slightly dampened by the Daily Telegraph having declared itself the “number one choice for business readers”, just hours earlier.

News International’s commercial leaders face redundancy

By August 10 2011, 10:16 am 1,303 Comments
news international building

Hayes’ commercial team effectively formed the front line for Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper operation during that first long week, as advertisers began to question their association with first News of the World and later News International amid pressure from social media.

Murdoch’s News Corp set to become the UK’s biggest advertiser

By April 26 2011, 1:10 pm Leave a comment


Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt is believed to be gearing-up to clear the way for Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation to acquire the 61% of BSkyB it does not already own, and in a single stroke create possibly the biggest advertising powerhouse in the UK. Read more »

Murdoch, I-Level and… Claudine dominate media in 2010

By December 23 2010, 2:57 pm Leave a comment

Vince Cable pictured in The Independent

In terms of commercial media, 2010 was always going to be dominated by one man and one company: Rupert Murdoch, News Corporation.

From the outset we expected paywalls and bundled content offerings (Alesia) to be the order of the day, but no one could have foreseen just where we find ourselves today. Read more »

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Do advertisers want to be in Times paywall club?

By November 23 2010, 2:37 pm 1 Comment

Hollywood’s take on the relentless rise of Facebook in The Social
Network is set to pass a milestone of its own this week, when UK box office
takings top £10 million.

It’s still got some way to go to push 2009 blockbuster Avatar (£90m), but
double-digit millions is good going for any film in little old Blighty.

Fiction or not, the fact that David Fincher’s simple and rather contrived plot
makes a plausible story says something about the value people place – or at
least imagine others place – on being seen to be in the right club.
The desire to be part of the right crowd is presented as the driving force
behind Facebook’s real-life founder Mark Zuckerberg, and it got me thinking

about News International’s paywall experiment. Read more »

News Int paywall creates around 200,000 digital sales

By November 2 2010, 10:25 am 1 Comment

After months of speculation, News International has finally unveiled figures for its paywall experiment at The Times and the Sunday Times websites; it has generated 105,000 digital-only sales and a further 100,000 print subscribers have activated their digital accounts, since July.

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