Articles: June, 2009

Just when it seemed that stratospheric libel damages were a thing of the past, along comes a record €1.8m award to a former PR consultant with the Irish government.
A Dublin jury found articles published in city’s Evening Herald newspaper defamed Monica Leech by wrongly suggesting she was having an extramarital affair with then environment minister [...]

• Written by admin
• Filed under Communication, Legal Business

So farewell, then, Rebekah Wade. The flame-haired and latterly jet-setting editor of the Sun is off to pastures not so much new as more elevated, as she forsakes the red-top’s editorship to become News International’s Chief Executive. But who will take the helm in her absence?
We recently speculated that Piers Morgan might find an offer [...]

• Written by admin
• Filed under Communication

Hats off to Walter Greenwood, the former co-editor of the hacks’ bible, Essential Law for Journalists. Greenwood has just retired from National Council for the Training of Journalists’ law examinations board after a record 35 years’ service. A sterling effort by a man whose easy-to-use and lucid Essential Law, of which he was joint editor [...]

• Written by admin
• Filed under Communication, Legal Business

We enjoy this note from the Grey Cardigan. On page 17 of The Spectator, a full-page ad for British Airways, the airline that likes to say ‘no’ to surfers. On page 16, a page is devoted to a story about air rage, featuring, er, British Airways.
Meanwhile, we wonder – which peer found himself accused of [...]

• Written by admin
• Filed under Communication

There’s some fun to be had thanks to Timesonline and its application for guessing a newspaper by a headline. Click here to test your media knowledge and while you’re at it, ponder this: where did the headline in this post first appear?

• Written by admin
• Filed under Communication