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UKIP leader wins damages and apology from Sunday Times over son payment claims
From Press Gazette. Posted June 11 2008, 12.00am
UK Independence Party leader and European Parliament Member Nigel Farage today accepted a public apology and damages from The Sunday Times at London’s High Court, after the paper accused him of using EU funds to pay his son as an assistant,... (more)

Times unveils full-colour redesign with leaders moved to page 2
From Press Gazette. Posted June 2 2008, 12.00am
The Times today unveiled a major redesign aimed at taking advantage of the full-colour printing which has been enabled by News International's new £650 million printing presses. (more)

New Magazine for Scotland’s Public Sector Leaders
From allmediascotland - Spike. Posted May 30 2008, 8.10am
The public sector in Scotland is to have its own monthly magazine. Public Servant Scotland will be published in September, four years on from the launch of the UK-wide Public Servant magazine.   It will be edited by Maureen Ferrier, a former head of communications for the Scottish... (more)

Leader: In praise of... the Royal Institution
From Media Guardian. Posted May 28 2008, 11.16pm
Leader: After two and a half years of building works, the institution is about to have a relaunch (more)

Leader: In praise of ... Chopin
From Media Guardian. Posted May 16 2008, 11.04pm
Leader: Frederic Chopin was a pianist first and foremost. (more)

Evening Leader Twitters live from the elections
From Hold the Front Page. Posted May 6 2008, 9.00am
NWN Media used mobile phones and the micro-blogging website to keep their online readers up-to-date (more)

Leader: Adjusting the set
From Media Guardian. Posted April 10 2008, 11.19pm
Leader: Ofcom has to protect the best in broadcasting against the fragmentation of the digital age (more)

Lack of tolerance for press freedom attacked by union leader
From Hold the Front Page. Posted April 9 2008, 3.00pm
Problems faced by journalists pulled into focus by NUJ's Jeremy Dear (more)

Leader: In praise of ... the BBC Micro
From Media Guardian. Posted April 6 2008, 11.03pm
Leader: The computer built to accompany a series of television programmes has left an extraordinary legacy (more)

Broadcast leaders join upstarts in web TV search
From Financial Times. Posted April 5 2008, 3.00am
The search for an audience for web-based television is gathering pace. Two small European companies, Joost and Babelgum, have developed full-screen, high-quality video... (more)

UK Conservative leader accused of ?paving way for destruction of BBC? - Daily Mail
From Media Network Weblog. Posted March 30 2008, 12.29pm
UK Conservative leader David Cameron was last night accused of paving the way for the destruction of the BBC after he threatened to hand £250million of its money to other broadcasters. Acccording to the Mail on Sunday, the Tories plan to force the Corporation to give away part of its licence fee funds to create new [...] (more)

Tory leader calls for respect between press and Parliament
From Hold the Front Page. Posted March 10 2008, 5.05am
Annual charity lunch hears Camerons views on "edgy relationship" between MPs and newspaper (more)

Afghan leader hails launch of Turkish radio broadcasts for Afghanistan
From Media Network Weblog. Posted March 9 2008, 10.36pm
Text of report by state-owned National Afghanistan TV on 9 March [Presenter] Hamed Karzai, president of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, has sent separate messages to Ankara to Abdullah Gul, the president of Turkey, and Tayyip Erdogan, the prime minister of that country, about the resumption of Turkish radio broadcasts for Afghanistan. The messages read: With happiness, [...] (more)

Newspaper story prompts personal intervention by Scottish leader in health wrangle
From Hold the Front Page. Posted March 5 2008, 3.35am
First Minister steps in to help sick baby after reading his story in Press and Journal (more)

Burmese community leader arrested for listening to shortwave
From Media Network Weblog. Posted February 24 2008, 12.07pm
In September 2007, the village tract leader of Kun Mong village tract in Kaeng Tawng sub-township of Murng-Nai township, Burma, was summoned to the base of LIB 569 and detained by the military authorities for regularly tuning to foreign news broadcasts on his shortwave radio. On 19 September 2007, the commander of LIB 569, based about [...] (more)

BBC managers to attend 'leadership' conference
From Media Guardian. Posted February 21 2008, 4.18pm
The BBC's top 150 managers are gathering for a special three-day 'leadership' conference in Birmingham next week. By Tara Conlan (more)

Redknee Ranked Leader in Real-Time Turnkey Converged Billing
From Press Release, via webitpr. Posted February 11 2008, 7.05am
TORONTO ? Feb. 11, 2008 ? Redknee Solutions Inc. (?Redknee?) (AIM: RKN), a leading provider of innovative software that monetizes and personalizes services and content for mobile operators, today announced that OSS Observer has ranked Redknee?s Turnkey Converged Billing solution as a market leader in converged pre- and post-paid charging as published in the report, ?Real-Time Charging Outlook?, November 2007. ?Redknee is an industry leader in real-time convergent charging with a number of deployments worldwide... (more)

Vocento wants to be multimedia leader
From Rapid TV News. Posted January 22 2008, 1.50pm
Spanish media group Vocento, which owns 13% of TV network Telecinco, said it wants to become a national multimedia leader in press and the internet. (more)

Free Press names campaign after council leader
From Hold the Front Page. Posted January 12 2008, 12.00am
Successful fight for fair car parking charges (more)

British TV show originators are still the world's leaders
From Media Guardian. Posted December 26 2007, 11.48pm
The UK has held on to its crown as the world's leading originator of television formats, with successes such as Simon Cowell's Got Talent franchise continuing to dominate international sales (more)

femtocell And picocell Leader RadioFrame To Cooperate On 3G Femto Home Access Solution With Nokia Siemens Network To Serve Growing Global Market
From Press Release, via webitpr. Posted December 18 2007, 2.40pm
LONDON and Redmond, WA. (December 18, 2007) -- RadioFrame Networks, a leading provider of femtocell and picocell radio access solutions has signed a contract with Nokia Siemens Network for co-operation on Nokia Siemens Networks? 3G Femto Home Access.  Under the terms of the agreement, RadioFrame Networks will provide its OmniRadio?femtocell solutions, which conform to Nokia Siemens Networks? open architecture.    RadioFrame will deliver its femtocell base stations directly to operators, while Nokia Siemens Networks will... (more)

Competition Heats Up For Leadership Awards Ceremony At Telecom Finance 2008
From Press Release, via webitpr. Posted December 17 2007, 4.23pm
London, December 17 2007 ? Awards for leading players who specialise in financing and professionally advising telecoms, media and technology companies, and the runners-up, are now being prepared and will be announced at the forthcoming Telecom Finance 2008. The award organisers and researchers, TelecomFinance and BroadGroup have also announced that the Awards ceremony and dinner will be presided over by TV personality and comedian Dara O?Briain, which takes place at London?s Renaissance Chancery Court on... (more)

Digital TV Group looks for new leader
From Digital Spy. Posted November 5 2007, 12.42pm
The industry association for digital TV launches a search for its new director general. (more)

Leader: In praise of ... Jon Snow
From Media Guardian. Posted November 2 2007, 12.45am
Leader: He epitomises everything Channel 4 News is about - provocative, left-of-centre, both engaged and engaging. (more)

BBC "will still be market leader" at 10pm
From Digital Spy. Posted November 1 2007, 9.29am
Ten O'Clock News editor Craig Oliver says the corporation is ready to take on ITV at 10pm. (more)

Leader: In praise of ... In the Psychiatrist's Chair
From Media Guardian. Posted October 31 2007, 12.10am
Leader: It is 25 years since Anthony Clare, who died this weekend, began his radio interviews with celebrities for In the Psychiatrist's Chair. (more)

BBC staff may strike next month, say union leaders
From Media Guardian. Posted October 18 2007, 1.00am
11am: A strike could take place at the BBC as early as the end of November if the corporation goes ahead with its redundancy plans. By Leigh Holmwood. (more)

Trinity Mirror selects its Editorial Leaders
From Press Gazette. Posted October 15 2007, 12.00am
Four women and eight men from across the regional press have embarked on a Trinity Mirror course which has seen many former delegates move on to become editors of regional newspapers. (more)

The site making millions from style leaders
From Media Guardian. Posted October 3 2007, 1.00am
In an era of free searches, Emap's WGSN charges huge sums for its forecasts, but can it see a buyer coming? By Katie Allen. (more)

Trinity Mirror takes Editorial Leaders Programme multimedia
From Press Gazette. Posted September 19 2007, 12.00am
Trinity Mirror Regionals is this month launching a course with the University of Central Lancashire to help senior editorial staff at the group understand the challenges of multimedia. (more)

BFM TV dreams itself as a leader
From Rapid TV News. Posted September 13 2007, 10.22pm
Digital-terrestrial news channel BFM TV has a target to become the leading news channel in France, before TF1’s pay-TV LCI and DTT competitor I-Télé. (more)

Leader: Auntie and the campaigners
From Media Guardian. Posted September 7 2007, 1.00am
Leader: The BBC's planned Planet Relief special might not have been the the best forum to raise climate change issues. (more)

Leader: In praise of... arts television
From Media Guardian. Posted August 28 2007, 1.00am
Leader: British television is not sure what to do about culture and its bosses seem to agree on only one thing: not many people watch it. (more)

Super-local websites get warm welcome from community leaders
From Hold the Front Page. Posted August 23 2007, 12.00am
Online correspondents to cover "every village and suburb" (more)

Festival feat sees Leader produce Welsh langauge editions all week
From Hold the Front Page. Posted August 22 2007, 12.00am
Welsh-speaking staff help major media project to support cultural festival (more)

Congo leader son fails in gag bid
From BBC News. Posted August 15 2007, 4.55pm
The son of Congo's leader fails in his bid to stop an anti-corruption body from publishing his financial records. (more)

Evening Leader targets networking sites in bid to reach new audience
From Hold the Front Page. Posted July 27 2007, 12.00am
Publisher widens the way in which it brings communities together (more)

Lebanese opposition leader launches TV station
From Media Network Weblog. Posted July 21 2007, 11.18am
Christian opposition leader Michel Aoun has launched his own television channel as Lebanon prepares for the first round of presidential elections in September. Michel Aoun, the sole declared candidate to date for Lebanon’s presidential election, launched OTV yesterday evening, broadcasting a news bulletin. The TV channel has an orange symbol which takes its colour from the retired [...] (more)

Hamas leader says new efforts made to release Johnston
From Media Guardian. Posted June 19 2007, 1.00am
A senior Hamas leader in Gaza last night said the movement was hoping to win the imminent release of the BBC journalist Alan Johnston. By Rory McCarthy in Ramallah. (more)

Leader: Channel 4
From Media Guardian. Posted June 15 2007, 1.00am
Leader: The problem for Channel 4 is that its remit is too loose. (more)

Leadership changes at Alhurra Television
From Media Network Weblog. Posted June 9 2007, 5.16pm
The Middle East Broadcasting Networks (MBN) have announced the resignation of Larry Register as MBN’s Vice President of News. Effective immediately, Daniel Nassif will take over editorial leadership at Alhurra Television, as well as continuing his duties as News Director for Radio Sawa. Joaquin Blaya, Chairman of the MBN Middle East Committee, issued the following statement: It [...] (more)

Tributes to 'dedicated and loyal' Leader lens legend Tom Hunter
From Hold the Front Page. Posted May 21 2007, 12.00am
Tributes pour in for photographer who served his paper for more than 50 years (more)

Leader launches networking pages - and flags local news in new web maps
From Hold the Front Page. Posted May 15 2007, 12.00am
Making news and content accessible to all drives Leader into new territory (more)

Leader: In praise of ... BBC Parliament
From Media Guardian. Posted May 8 2007, 1.00am
Leader: BBC Parliament has risen to the challenge of an extraordinary political month with a series of programmes showing that there is still life in democracy. (more)

BBC completes future media leadership team
From Digital Spy. Posted May 3 2007, 2.18pm
Virgin Radio's James Cridland moves to the BBC as part of the corporation's future media leadership team. (more)

BBC Future Media and Technology announce leadership appointments
From BBC Press Ofice. Posted May 3 2007, 1.00pm
Ashley Highfield Director of BBC Future Media and Technology today announces three new and final appointments to the Future Media and Technology leadership team. (more)

Kyrgyz leader ready for television reform
From Media Network Weblog. Posted March 26 2007, 12.04pm
Kyrgyzstan’s president said today he is ready to meet the opposition’s demand to transform state television into public, his second concession to reformers. The transformation of Kyrgyzstan’s National TV and Radio Broadcasting Corporation (NTRK) into public television was one of the demands of the last year’s massive rallies of the For Reforms opposition movement. Kurmanbek Bakiyev revoked [...] (more)

Guardian appoints economics leader writer
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted March 21 2007, 4.33pm
Former BBC economics producer Aditya Chakrabortty to take on new roleemail this article   digg this   del.icio.us (more)

Political Leaders Interviewed by Kids for the BBC
From Merry Media. Posted March 20 2007, 5.19pm
The Prime Minister and other political leaders are all being interviewed by schoolchildren taking part in a new BBC initiative where children get to make broadcast news for themselves.. (more)

European Parliament leaders agree further support for broadcasts to Belarus
From Media Network Weblog. Posted February 9 2007, 11.22am
The leader of the united democratic forces of Belarus, Alyaksandr Milinkevich, was on a one-day visit to Brussels yesterday. He had a number of meetings with the leadership of the European Parliament. Afterwards, Milinkevich told journalists he had managed to reach a concrete agreement on further European support of projects aimed at development of independent TV [...] (more)

Big Brother exposes a crisis of leadership at Channel 4
From Media Guardian. Posted January 22 2007, 12.00am
The Big Brother row has exposed a crisis of leadership at Channel 4. So what will be the consequences, asks Matt Wells. (more)

Radical leader drags BBC World Service into the 21st century
From Media Network Weblog. Posted January 7 2007, 11.13am
Today’s issue of The Observer has an interview with The Head of the BBC World Service, Nigel Chapman. He stresses that change was already under way at the World Service - but staff say moves toward becoming a tri-media broadcaster (using online, radio and satellite TV) accelerated with his arrival and are now moving ‘at [...] (more)

Arab leaders see press as "sworn enemy", Beirut conference hears
From Press Gazette. Posted December 11 2006, 6.05pm
Arab leaders all see the press as their “sworn enemy”, according to a leading newspaper editor in the Yemen. (more)

Fiji: Coup leaders seize control of media
From Media Network Weblog. Posted December 6 2006, 10.30am
Fiji’s press is under siege following a military coup two days ago that toppled the government of Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase, report the International Press Institute (IPI), Reporters Without Borders and the International Federation of Journalists. The state-owned Fiji Broadcasting Corporation has suspended all news programmes. The country’s two privately-owned radio stations, Radio Fiji and Communications [...] (more)

Thompson: "ITV needs a new leader"
From Digital Spy. Posted November 28 2006, 9.52am
In an email to BBC staff, director-general Mark Thompson says that Michael Grade was a strong candidate to lead ITV. (more)

Leader: Who is watching ITV?
From Media Guardian. Posted November 27 2006, 12.00am
Leader: A long time ago ITV showed the Jewel in the Crown and thought of itself as the jewel of British commercial broadcasting. (more)

Leader: In praise of... John Humphrys
From Media Guardian. Posted October 26 2006, 1.00am
Leader: While his considerable ego obtrudes into his journalism too often for many tastes, there can be no gainsaying the accomplishments of the BBC's John Humphrys as an old-fashioned reporter. (more)

NME takes on market leader Hot Press with Irish edition
From Brand Republic. Posted October 10 2006, 11.10am
LONDON - IPC Media's NME is to take on Ireland's bestselling music title Hot Press later this month by launching a dedicated Republic of Ireland edition to coincide with the opening of its Club NME Dublin club night. (more)

Jana Bennett appoints two industry leaders to key BBC Vision roles
From BBC Press Ofice. Posted September 5 2006, 11.00am
Peter Salmon and Jane Tranter will fill new leadership roles in BBC Vision the BBCs new multimedia content commissioning and channels group Jana Bennett who will be Director of BBC Vision announced today 5 September 2006. (more)

Maoist leader Prachanda to talk to listeners of BBC Nepali
From Media Network Weblog. Posted September 1 2006, 1.34pm
BBC Nepali is to broadcast a special programme with the leader of Nepal’s Maoist rebels. In an hour-long programme from Kathmandu, Prachanda Lai Prashna (Questions to Prachanda) - broadcast at 1500 UTC on Friday 8 September - Chairman Prachanda will take listeners’ questions asked via telephone, email and letters. There will also be questions recorded from [...] (more)

Ex-council leader may sue Sky
From Media Guardian. Posted July 18 2006, 8.08am
The former leader of Hull council threatened to take legal action against Sky TV after he was cleared of indecent assault. By David Ward. (more)

NatMags in hunt for leader to push online strategy
From Brand Republic. Posted June 26 2006, 1.06pm
LONDON - The National Magazine Company has launched a search for a managing director for digital publishing, a new role needed to drive its online products strategy. (more)

Leader: Digital overload
From Media Guardian. Posted June 15 2006, 3.07am
Leader: The irony is that the biggest threat to the BBC's future may not be commercial pressure, but its commercial success. (more)

Leader: Media
From Media Guardian. Posted May 31 2006, 7.49am
Leader: In 20 or 30 years' time it may be that today's uses of the internet will seem as antiquated as black and white TV sets with newsreaders wearing dinner jackets. (more)

Leader: In praise of Humphrey Lyttelton
From Media Guardian. Posted May 23 2006, 1.21am
Leader: The resident ringmaster of Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue returned last night to the presenter's chair for another series. (more)

BBC World launches global business leaders campaign
From Brand Republic. Posted May 16 2006, 11.05am
LONDON – Sir Martin Sorrell, the WPP Group chief executive, is among those lending his weight to a BBC World campaign, which uses testimonials from global business leaders to emphasise the channel's pulling power. (more)

Leader: In praise of ... The Line of Beauty
From Media Guardian. Posted May 16 2006, 12.56am
Leader: The BBC's new adaptation of Alan Hollinghurst's novel The Line of Beauty recalls 1980s London as a time of cash, cars, cocaine and coming out. (more)

US Senate leader seeks to boost TV decency fines
From Media Network Weblog. Posted May 3 2006, 5.23pm
US Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist plans to ask the Senate to vote to boost fines on broadcast television, radio stations and entertainers for violating decency standards, according to an e-mail obtained today. A parents group earlier this week criticized Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Stevens for failing to act more than a year after the House of Representatives approved a bill that (more)

Leader: In praise of ... Signature tunes
From Media Guardian. Posted April 26 2006, 2.19am
Leader: Though the BBC is about to demolish its long-running sports sequence Grandstand, at least part of the structure is due to survive. (more)

Leader: Analogue switch-off
From Media Guardian. Posted April 25 2006, 1.05am
Leader: Is the BBC or the government the right body to meet the costs of switching over from analogue to digital television by 2012? (more)

Leader: In praise of ... Planet Earth
From Media Guardian. Posted April 4 2006, 8.18am
Leader: The BBC's Planet Earth was a big critical as well as popular success. (more)

UK is world leader in digital television viewing
From Ofcom. Posted March 17 2006, 11.30am
A new item from the Ofcom website. (more)

Date set for BNP leader's retrial
From Press Gazette. Posted February 17 2006, 2.34pm
BNP leader Nick Griffin faces two charges based on evidence from BBC journalist Jason Gywnne's programme "The Secret Agent". (more)

IFJ calls on political leaders to act over media deaths
From Press Gazette. Posted January 23 2006, 1.11pm
The International Federation of Journalists today condemned a “culture of neglect and indifference” over killings of journalists which is making journalism more dangerous than ever. (more)

Two leaders of independent Cambodian radio station arrested
From Media Network Weblog. Posted January 4 2006, 4.42pm
Cambodian authorities have arrested the director and deputy director of the Voice of Democracy radio station, accusing them of defaming the government. The popular US-funded station is one of the country’s few news outlets independent of the Cambodian government. Police arrested Deputy Director Pang Nguon Tieng today, five days after the arrests of Director Kem Sokha and Yeng Virak, who is (more)

Dubai enters 40 days of mourning following death of leader
From Media Network Weblog. Posted January 4 2006, 12.24pm
Dubai has begun 40 days of mourning following the news that its ruler, Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashed al-Maktoum, 62, died of a heart attack earlier today while on a private visit to Australia. Radio and TV programmes will obviously be modified during this period. (more)

NUJ leadership thwarted in plan for a political fund
From Press Gazette. Posted March 25 2004, 12.00am
NUJ rank and file members have opposed the leadership and voted against starting a new fund for political campaigning. (more)

Cartoon of the Year: Dave Brown's tale of two leaders
From The Independent. Posted January 1 1970, 12.59am
A cartoon by The Independent's Dave Brown was voted Political Cartoon of the Year last night. (more)

BBC interviewers 'too frightened of offending big business leaders'
From The Independent. Posted January 1 1970, 12.59am
If Bill Gates was nervous before his appearance on the BBC's Ten O'Clock News earlier this year, he did not need to be. His interrogator, Huw Edwards, could hardly have tried harder to put the world's richest man at ease. (more)