Lucas van Praag, the longtime communications chief at Goldman Sachs, is stepping down. To those of us in the PR trade, this news yesterday was much more significant than Facebook’s IPO filing and the legion of twentysomething millionaires it will spawn. Van Praag has done a brilliant job of defending Goldman and handling the outsized […]
Attorneys for News Corporation investigating the phone-hacking scandal at the now-defunct UK tabloid News of the World revealed today that emails warning of widespread hacking were deleted from James Murdoch’s computer. The New York Times reports: “Rupert Murdoch’s son James that referred to “a nightmare scenario” of legal repercussions from widespread phone hacking at the […]
The folks at The Wall Street Journal and its parent News Corporation must be heaving a sigh of relief after the UK’s newspaper-circulation auditor found “no clear evidence” of noncompliance in an unusual deal that inflated the subscription figures for The Wall Street Journal Europe. The statement by the Audit Bureau of Circulation is remarkable […]
Tom Glocer today became the latest CEO to be fired, in a year that has seen a score of corporate chiefs get the boot. Glocer, who has led Thomson Reuters since 2001, lost the confidence of the Thomson family, the company’s largest shareholder. Although billed as a retirement, it’s clear that Glocer was forced out […]
In a recent post on Yahoo’s firing of Carol Bartz, I noted that the manner in which the Yahoo board handled it could make it easy for Bartz to offer her point of view in the media. So it comes as little surprise that Fortune today posted a lively interview with Bartz, explitives included. It […]
There were two interesting items in the New York Times yesterday on innovations in magazine publishing. The first, by David Carr, looks at Lucky Peach, a new food-centered magazine started by chef David Chang that’s rich in content and texture. At 174 pages and printed on heavy matte paper, it turns magazine convention on its […]