By Chris Boffey At the height of the blood lust over hacking Rupert Murdoch flew into London, walked down a street with Rebecca Brooks, posed for the paps, and told the world she was his first priority. Not so long afterwards she was resigned (sacked) as chief executive of News International receiving a payout of more than £10m, prosecuted and cleared of hacking and in a series of later trials of Sun and News of the World journalists there were more questions raised, and not answered, about just what went on when she was editor and then CEO. Now it appears Murdoch is to make Read full story › Source: The Drum...
Read MoreBy Chris Boffey At the height of the blood lust over hacking Rupert Murdoch flew into London, walked down a street with Rebecca Brooks, posed for the paps, and told the world she was his first priority. Not so long afterwards she was resigned (sacked) as chief executive of News International receiving a payout of more than £10m, prosecuted and cleared of hacking and in a series of later trials of Sun and News of the World journalists there were more questions raised, and not answered, about just what went on when she was editor and then CEO. Now it appears Murdoch is to make Read full story › Source: The Drum...
Read MoreBy Cameron Clarke Condé Nast’s UK managing director Nicholas Coleridge saw his pay soar 38 per cent to £1.3m last year as profits at the company’s British arm almost doubled. The publisher of titles including Vogue, GQ and Tatler saw reported pre-tax profits increase from £8.78m to £16.55m last year. The strong performance saw Coleridge, who is also president of Condé Nast International, enjoy a pay boost from £931,900 to £1.29m, according to the Guardian. It reports that Condé Nast has attributed its growth to the performance of its digital business and increased revenue from its College of Fashion and Design which opened Read full story › Source: The Drum...
Read MoreBehind the scenes at the Edinburgh TV Festival with Armando Iannucci, Chris Bryant and hungover hacks
By Jason Stone By this stage of the TV Festival every journalist is struggling to keep up with the sheer number of events that need to be covered. As we dribble towards the Edinburgh International Conference Centre, some of us are still finishing the last of yesterday’s reports… and the sessions keep coming. You hear desperate negotiations all around you in the press room as the hacks – still recovering from the night before – try to offload events to each another. “You do Jay Hunt’s ‘Meet the Controller’ at 12.45 and I’ll pop into the Pentland and keep an eye on the Read full story › Source: The Drum...
Read MoreBy Cameron Clarke Three Al-Jazeera journalists have been sentenced to three years in jail by a court in Egypt after being convicted of “spreading false news”. Canadian national Mohammed Fahmy, Australian journalist Peter Greste and Egyptian producer Baher Mohammed were sentenced on Saturday at a retrial in Cairo. Greste was on trial in absentia having been deported to Australia earlier this year. The three journalists were originally sentenced in July 2014, with Greste and Fahmy receiving seven years and Mohamed 10 years, before their convictions were overturned in January following an international outcry. But at today’s sentencing judge Hassan Farid said he arrived at his decision Read full story › Source: The Drum...
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