Matthew Freud collected an increased dividend worth around £1.5 million from his public relations firm Freud Communications last year, despite a slide in profits... more
M&C Saatchi, the advertising agency for the Tory party and insurer Direct Line, gave a bullish verdict on the UK marketing industry after revenues jumped by almost a quarter in the first half of the year... more
Anthony Bolton, Fidelity's star fund manager, decamped to Hong Kong last year to manage his firm's new China Special Situations fund investing in Chinese businesses... more
David Cameron, police officers and Rupert Murdoch's editors will give evidence under oath to the phone hacking inquiry, the Standard has learned... more
James Murdoch faces the possibility of being investigated by police over the evidence he gave to Parliament. It also emerged the judge leading the hacking inquiry is linked to News Corp chief's son-in-law... more
Change is afoot in the world of PR. A wave of high-ranking staff at various corporate public relations agencies are getting itchy feet and quitting to launch their own firms... more
So what happens when William Cohan's Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came To Rule The World is entered for the FT Business Book of the Year? ... more
As celebrities join a protest against a London PR firm's links with authoritarian Belarus, Gideon Spanier exposes the publicity firms with an image problem... more
Guardian Media Group continues to shrink its empire under new chief executive Andrew Miller, who is making redundant the position of Tim Brooks, the managing director in charge of The Guardian and The Observer... more
Matthew Freud’s public relations firm Freud Communications bucks the recession with a 28% increase in pre-tax profits to £6.7 million last year... more
Advertising and Marketing: The recession has been brutal for most of the marketing industry but few sectors have performed better than public relations... more
Sir Clement Freud, who died this week, was just one member of a colourful family dynasty that continues to leave its mark on us, as Sebastian Shakespeare reports... more
Sir Mick Jagger left a Christmas party in unusual fashion - by karate-chopping his way through the crowd of photographers assembled on the pavement... more
Given the financial hurricane that devasted the City last month, that 2008 is shaping up to be a good year for British film and our leading directors and actors ... more
Her sisters Pixie and Peaches Geldof have developed a reputation as Boomtown Brats, but last night it was Fifi Trixabelle's turn to hit the London party scene... more
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