Former KGB agent Alexander Lebedev is in exclusive talks to buy The Independent and Independent on Sunday, the newspaper group announced on Friday. ...
London's Evening Standard announced Friday it is to become a free newspaper after 182 years as a paid-for title, in a bold move ...
The London Evening Standard has extended its cost-cutting programme and is laying off about 11 staff. Those hit with compulsory redundancy notices on Friday include reporters, production and IT staff. Senior executive Tim Barlass, the paper's night editor, was among those made ...
The London Evening Standard is axing one of its editions and is planning redundancies among its delivery van drivers. Daily Mail & General Trust's 50p afternoon newspaper will axe its middle edition and distribute its first and West End Final editions later ...
Good to see that someone is surviving the credit crunch. The London Evening Standard reports tonight that Tony Blair has earned £12m since leaving No 10, and is now the highest paid public speaker in the world. The paper claims the former ...
The Observer's famed theatre reviewer, Kenneth Tynan, once said that a critic is someone who "knows the way but can't drive the car". Well, this Sunday evening, a bunch of food critics and writers will be getting behind the steering wheel. Ten ...
The Wall Street Journal Europe has failed to report the global financial crisis with sufficient punch or panache, as I write in today's London Evening Standard. Since Rupert Murdoch's takeover, I would have expected better, though its website certainly has improved. Copyright ...
Tomorrow afternoon I'll be chairing a conference organised by the Voice of The Listener & Viewer entitled Citizenship and broadcasting, putting the public into public service broadcasting. The three speakers at the Woburn House event will be Phil Graf, Ofcom's deputy chair, ...
Former Brighton Argus editor Simon Bradshaw, who has been subbing with the London Evening Standard for several years, is returning to the provinces to edit a weekly, the Henley Standard. He replaces George Tuckfield, who is retiring after 18 years as editor. ...
Should there be boundaries between the BBC and the rest of the media? In other words, is it fair for a public service broadcaster funded by a licence fee to seek profits in competition with commercial rivals, or to move into non-broadcasting ...
The London Evening Standard saw another circulation rise year on year, by 0.48% in August, but bulks increased as a percentage of total circulation. Headline circulation fell about 14,000 copies compared with July, to 278,889 last month, although the summer holiday period ...
English dramatist, novelist and barrister, John Mortimer with his wife Penelope and their daughter, future fim actress, Emily aged 18 months, 18th April 1973. (Photo by Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Copyright 1973 Getty Images
