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Evening Standard column

Gideon Spanier

Ex-Asda boss faces daunting trial in ITV jungle

So Archie Norman is going to sumbit himself to the Bushtucker Trial that is chairing ITV. Formerly an MP, Tory chief executive and Asda chairman, he says the challenge of overseeing the I’m A Celebrity and X-Factor broadcaster is “irresistible”

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Caz chiefs’ pay doubles

New figures today showed that the top directors at blue-blooded investment bank JPMorgan Cazenove saw their total pay double last year

London's new influentials

'The 1000' - the Standard's list of the capital's top movers and shakers - is out tomorrow. Here's a preview of 25 bright sparks who make this year's selection for the first time

The 20 people who keep London leading the world

Simon Cowell, Stella McCartney and Dizzee Rascal were named among the 20 most influential people in London

Five feels the pain of £20.8m loss

Channel Five underlined the challenging state of the terrestrial commercial TV market as new figures showed it recorded a £20.8 million annual loss

IPC holds up but NatMags dives

Country Life and NME publisher IPC Media has bucked the recession as annual profits held steady at £65.1 million despite falling advertising

Condé Nast International hit by a 12% dive in profits

Vogue publisher Condé Nast’s London-based international arm saw annual profits drop 12% last year as the recession began to bite the luxury market

How much pain can the Guardian take?

Media analysis: An air of trepidation is hanging over The Guardian’s new offices in Kings Place

Commerzbank victory over unpaid bonuses

Commerzbank has won a court battle in Germany against 13 Dresdner Kleinwort bankers who were suing for unpaid bonuses

Hanson returns to finance with Strand

Hanson, one of the most celebrated family names in City finance, is making a comeback

Rudd in the money as Finsbury shrugs off recession

City public relations supremo Roland Rudd earned £2.9 million last year as his Finsbury agency prospered despite the credit crunch

Osborne plays politics when City is in no mood for games

It’s a back-handed compliment for George Osborne. Both the Lib-Dems and Labour have identified the chancellor-in-waiting as a target for attack

Murdoch in online TV link-up

Elisabeth Murdoch's drive to expand her Shine TV company took another step forward, as she launched a new production firm for the Facebook generation

Could Time Warner sell off its magazines?

The chatter in the IPC offices is that their magazine empire could be up for sale.

New bonuses lawsuit facing Commerzbank

Commerzbank is poised to face a second class-action-style lawsuit from former Dresdner Kleinwort bankers over unpaid bonuses

City bankers sue for £30million unpaid bonuses

Exclusive: A total of 72 City bankers have sued for £30million in unpaid bonuses in the biggest lawsuit of its kind seen in London

Whitbread pension axe

The dwindling number of final-salary pensions in the private sector shrank further today when hotel and restaurant group Whitbread axed its retirement scheme

Investors bail out of banks with state help

Wealthy Britons have been shunning private banks which have taken state bailouts in favour of those which have prospered in the credit crunch, an authoritative survey showed

Observer employees plan supplement-free version to save their newspaper from Guardian branding

Observer journalists plan for radically slimmed-down version of Sunday paper in bid to stop parent company from closing it

Morgan Stanley £97m loss far exceeds analysts’ fears

US banking giant Morgan Stanley posted a loss of $159 million (£97 million) for the second quarter of this year - worse than analysts' forecasts

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