BBC spends £815,000 on counselling staff for stress, bullying and harassment among other issues December 21, 2016 The BBC has spent nearly £815,000 since 2010 counselling staff for stress, bullying and harassment among other issues, City A.M. can exclusively reveal. The corporation’s bill for counselling staff for the 2016/2017 financial year increased to over £102,000 from the previous period during which it forked out nearly £94,500. The BBC came under fire last [...]
Cast of the Trainspotting sequel gather for the film’s world premiere December 20, 2016 | City Talk The cast of the Trainspotting sequel have gathered in Edinburgh for the film's world premiere. When it was released in 1996 Danny Boyle’s adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s source novel Trainspotting was a worldwide success and a cultural phenomenon. Twenty years on director Danny Boyle has reunited the original cast for the sequel T2: Trainspotting. T2: [...]
Radio Times publisher Immediate Media is set to be sold to a German media group for £260m December 19, 2016 One of Britain's most recognisable brands, Radio Times, will be sold to a German media giant. The television listings magazine's publisher Immediate Media will be sold this week to Germany's Hubert Burda in a £260m deal, Sky News reported. Hubert Burda, publisher of YourHome and Wedding lifestyle magazines, will take over the Exponent Private Equity-owned [...]
Capita helps to maximise BBC licence fees and is awarded contract extension until 2022 December 19, 2016 Support services firm Capita has sealed a contract extension with the BBC to ensure the broadcaster maximises TV licence collections. The two-year add-on means the FTSE 100 firm's partnership with Auntie will run until 2022, by which time it will have administered TV licensing for 20 years. Read more: Capita share price at 10-year low as it issues [...]
Rupert Murdoch pleads with newspaper to stop using “fake news” quote December 19, 2016 Rupert Murdoch has written to the Guardian, asking the newspaper to stop attributing a "fake" quote to him. The executive chairman of 21st Century Fox, which last week agreed an £11.7bn deal to takeover Sky, has taken issue with the following quote: “When I go into Downing Street, they do what I say; when I [...]
Protein’s Will Rowe talks early adopters, audience insights and brands “doing good” December 19, 2016 "I was a really bad web designer… that’s how it all started,” chuckles Will Rowe, founder and chief executive of Protein. We’re in his Shoreditch office, a space resembling the bedroom of my teenage dreams; a well trodden cow hide is stretched over the corrugated steel floor below shelves laden with volumes of glossy magazines. [...]
Facebook has explained some of the ways it is trying to tackle fake news December 16, 2016 Facebook has set out some of the ways it is trying to address fake news and hoax stories. Both Facebook and Google have faced strong criticism in recent weeks over a proliferation of false news stories during the US presidential race. The digital giants both promised to crack down on advertising against fake news last [...]
Daily Mirror publisher’s shares soar despite 17 per cent decline in print advertising revenue December 16, 2016 Trinity Mirror, the publisher of the Mirror national newspapers and more than 150 regional titles, is expecting a 17 per cent drop in advertising revenue in the last quarter of this year. However, shares in the company jumped eight per cent on Friday morning after it reported a performance “marginally ahead of expectations”, with its [...]
A £17m paper trade: Johnston Press sells 13 East Anglia titles as part of debt reduction strategy December 16, 2016 The owner of the i newspaper has flogged 13 of its print titles in a "landmark" deal that will raise £17m. Johnston Press confirmed it will sell its East Anglia titles to Iliffe Media Limited having previously said it was in a late-stage discussions over the sale in November. Read more: Struggling newspaper group Johnston Press [...]
Editor’s notes: Forget about Murdoch, media dominance is now an online battle December 16, 2016 For a while this week it felt as if we’d slipped back five years, as Ed Miliband and Vince Cable dusted down their criticisms of Rupert Murdoch. 21st Century Fox’s bid for Sky saw the former Labour leader take to Twitter like a student protester. “Do we want Rupert Murdoch controlling even more of [the] [...]