http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/axegrinder Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 16 May 2008 14:59:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Former Mirror editor Piers Morgan is to return to the paper’s Canary Wharf HQ as editor for the first time since he was frogmarched from the building in 2005 after the fake-torture pictures debacle. Oh to be a fly on the wall if he bumps into Sly Bailey – the chief ... http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/axegrinder/2008/05/16/piers-morgan-auction-mirror/ Good to see the Daily Express is doing its bit for hard-up and hard-working readers by keeping its price at 40p. As the paper writes this week: "Yes, the Daily Express is still only 40p. Prices are going up all the time, as you will know from our cost of living ... http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/axegrinder/2008/05/16/express-40p-inflation/ Zoo and Men’s Health. Two magazines poles apart. Especially, one would imagine, on the football pitch. However, when the magazines lined up against each other for a titanic 11-a-side battle at west London’s Paddington Rec, the outcome was somewhat surprising. The crack lads’ mag weekly – already with a tough 0-1 ... http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/axegrinder/2008/05/14/zoo-mens-health-battle-of-the-studs/ Pearson, publisher of the Financial Times, can come off Press Gazette’s “skinflints list” after coming up with a £60,000 donation for the Journalists’ Charity to help run its care home in Dorking, Surrey. Last year, Press Gazette published a front page pillorying the big newspaper publishers which had yet to make ... http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/axegrinder/2008/05/13/cheque-out-the-latest-charity-donations/ Damian Thompson, editor-in-chief of the Catholic Herald, is, I’m reliably informed, fighting the good fight for the faith. Says my man in the long flowing robes, with an angelic look on his face: “His various criticisms have so vexed Cardinal Cormac Murphy O’Connor that his latest £50,000-a-year press officer has ... http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/axegrinder/2008/05/12/catholic-herald-damian-thompson/ London entertainment mag Time Out rather left itself open to cries of foul with a Critic’s Choice recommendation for the club night Electrosexual, with DJ Paul Burston, playing all things electric for a polysexual crowd. That’s the same Paul Burston who is also the editor of the mag’s gay and lesbian ... http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/axegrinder/2008/05/09/time-out-dj-paul-burston/ We know Jon Snow as a broad-minded journalist and newsreader, but it seems he had his mind expanded through rather more chemical means in the Seventies. Writing on his daily Snowmail newsletter to fans, Snow mentioned the death of Albert Hoffman, the man widely credited with the creation of LSD – ... http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/axegrinder/2008/05/08/jon-snow-lsd-strawberry-flan/ The granting of an honorary degree to investigative journalist John Pilger in South Africa reminded Axegrinder of the time in the Seventies when Pilger, while working for the The Daily Mirror, got himself kicked out of the country minutes after arriving. After landing at Jan Smuts Airport in Johannesburg he was ... http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/axegrinder/2008/05/07/john-pilger-mirror-rhodes-university-south-africa/ Newspapers are like buildings, according to the University of Manchester, which for some reason has seen fit to issue a press release about this. Academics Andrew Crompton and Frank Brown evidently had a bit of time on their hands so decided to test the “visual depth” of The Daily Telegraph’s front ... http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/axegrinder/2008/05/07/telegraph-design-architectural-manchester/ Axegrinder, as readers know, loves to go to parties, and one date already in his diary is Monday, 16 June. That’s the launch date of a new glossy men’s lifestyle magazine, The Finch Quarterly, edited by young Henry Sands, son of Sarah Sands, who is about to start as the ... http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/axegrinder/2008/05/07/finch-quarterly-henry-sands/