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Daily Digest: C5 ‘news’, men bossing the newsroom, John Cleese

Desmond gleefully plucks legs off C5 news spider Channel 5′s news team are up in arms at changes to the its output. A proposed relaunch, due next year, will see job cuts and reporters expected to edit...

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TV news is (mostly) serious business

If you want tabloid tittle-tattle on your television, then look no further than Channel 5′s “unashamedly populist” news bulletins. That’s one of the conclusions of From Callaghan to Credit Crunch, an...

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Ethical? I don’t know what the word means, Desmond tells Leveson

Much of the focus of the Leveson inquiry today has been on Richard Desmond, his Express and Star newspapers, and his decision to pull them out of the PCC. Daily Express editor Hugh Whittow backed the...

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Express and Star empire to be cut down

Richard Desmond’s Express and Star newspapers are to be subjected to between £8 million-£18 million worth of cuts. Among those in the firing line is the Daily Star Sunday, which finds itself in the...

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Telegraph owners are richest in publishing

The owners of Telegraph Media Group are Britain’s richest people in publishing and advertising, according to 2012′s Sunday Times Rich List. Sir David and Frederick Barclay, who also own the he Ritz...

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Express redundancies offered £3k retraining package

Express Newspapers has agreed with the NUJ to offer £3,000 retraining packages to journalists losing their jobs. The Richard Desmond-owned group, which publishes the Express and Star nationals, is in...

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No editors on new PCC, says Northern and Shell

No serving editors should sit on the new press regulator set to replace the Press Complaints Commission, according to Richard Desmond’s Northern and Shell. Desmond, owner of Northern and Shell which...

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Irish Star editor suspended for publishing Kate pics

The owners of the Irish Daily Star have suspended editor Michael O’Kane after the paper published the pictures of the Dutchess of Cambridge topless. Richard Desmond – whose Northern & Shell company...

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Richard Desmond’s adult TV boss to run Channel 5

The man who runs Richard Desmond’s adult TV channels has also been handed control of Channel 5. As well as taking on a role which includes overseeing children’s shows such as Peppa Pig and Flowertots,...

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Sunday People offer binned by ex-Express editor

A group of buyers, fronted by former Sunday Express editor Sue Douglas, has retracted a £10m bid to take a majority share of British newspaper Sunday People. Talks with the weekend tabloids’ owner,...

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