Shares slump at Thomson Reuters and Reed Elsevier
It’s been another disappointing morning for some of the UK’s biggest publicly listed media companies. Shares in Reed Elsevier have…
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Ofcom: ‘We must safeguard public service broadcasting, let’s dismantle ITV News’
ITV’s dramatic cuts to editorial jobs outlined yesterday expose a paradox in media regulator Ofcom’s proposals for the future of…
ByWhat lies ahead for the media?
Here are a few possibilities for the next few weeks and months. On reflection, most seem fairly obvious. If so,…
ByAd recession: We’re at the end of the beginning, not the beginning of the end
Writing in the FT, Tim Bradshaw predicts that ITV’s forecast 20% YOY decline in September ad bookings might come to…
ByMorgan Stanley hails Roger Parry as King of the Bears: Prepare your handbasket for hellish ordeal, say bankers
Nasty. Morgan Stanley has slashed its profits forecasts for the media sector in 2009 and 2010. In an aggressively-worded note,…
ByJob cuts feared as ITV looks to make efficiencies
ITV is reported to have called in the consultants to “increase effectiveness” and “develop improved ways of working” in its…
ByITN’s Michael Nicholson adopted Brazilian child
The veteran ITN foreign reporter, Michael Nicholson, adopted an eight-year-old girl from a Brazilian slum in 1996 and brought her…
ByFar from Google’s slick conference, an awkward squad of media owners and agencies starts to protest
Was James Ashton of the Sunday Times invited to meet Sergey Brin and Larry Page at Google’s high-falutin’ Zeitgeist conference…
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