10 Dec 2004
| by Ian Hall
Microsoft has poached Mike Love, the top European PR man at McDonald’s, to fill a newly created...The news that Love, a McDonald’s stalwart for the past decade, is to join
Microsoft comes ...
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Love, who starts next month, said he planned to ‘look at how to best protect and promote’ Microsoft’s reputation.
Microsoft is appealing against a March ruling by the European Commission that it has abused its ...
10 Dec 2004
| by Ravi Chandiramani
The BBC is ending the year, as it began it, under the public microscope....charter comes up for renewal and it seeks to preserve the licence fee.
The BBC has to juggle a raft ...
the BBC's PR tightrope. On the upside, for example, plans to relocate jobs have been lauded ...
disillusioned or soon-to-be-former BBC journalists briefing its commercial rivals against it. Little more than ...
10 Dec 2004
| by Richard Cann
The English National Opera (ENO) has appointed BBC head of media relations Sao Bui-Van as its top...Doran.
An avid opera buff, Bui-Van spent six years at the BBC after four years as Nickelodeon head ...
10 Dec 2004
| by Donna Werbner
operator Albacom and signed a £3.7m IT services agreement with Microsoft to launch a web-based service...this year.
The BBC suffered after government advisers warned the licence fee will soon become ...
10 Dec 2004
BBC: The BBC could shed up to half its comms staff as a result of plans announced yesterday
10 Dec 2004
| by Kate Nicholas, kate.nicholas@haynet.com
issues of the year. Just as I was scratching my head over this tall order, the BBC came to my rescue...To recap: on the 20th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster, the BBC ran an interview with a 'Jude ...
bidder.
No one comes out of the Bhopal stunt well. The BBC, which obviously got carried away ...
the BBC has the resources to live up to its reputation.
Even the Yes Men - who no doubt anticipated ...
10 Dec 2004
| by Tom Williams
) in 2002, when Oke was MD of Prospero Financial. Oke has actually advised Xstrata CEO Mick Davis since 1997 when Davis was chief financial officer of Billiton, which merged with BHP in 2001, listed on the LSE.
On 30 November Davis argued that Xstrata’s offer of A$6.35 per share was a significant premium to WMC ...
10 Dec 2004
ousted chairman Sir Peter Davis £2.4m in performance-based bonuses - for a year that culminated in a ...
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BBC 172 In-house
NTL Group 122 ...
10 Dec 2004
| by Joe Lepper
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On the same day, Lovell was involved in more than 40 regional radio interviews as well as features on the BBC's Radio Five Live, BBC London and Classic Gold.
Since 1 November, the story has been picked up by papers ...
. TV mentions have included GMTV and BBC South East Today. Foreign coverage included the New Zealand ...
10 Dec 2004
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BBC head of newsgathering Adrian Von Klaveren has been appointed deputy director of news ...
will be replaced by
David Chater, Sky senior correspondent. Peter Lane, currently BBC News Midlands correspondent, has been made Northern correspondent of Five News.
Paul Shuttleworth, editor of the BBC’s ...