Oracle just hired a new CFO who will get a total pay package that could reach nearly $30 million.

This comes immediately after Larry Ellison's company fired 30,000 workers.

Flown out?

This week’s cover story 👉 SIGN OF THE TIMES | Frances Kelly is arrested for breaking Britain’s dumbest law

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🗞️ Get your copy from a local newsstand from Thursday 2nd October

BlueSky needs more music recommendations like this. Thank you 😊

Cradle of Filth 👀

Loving this BofE Canadian government crossover episode

Lest we forget. JD Vance too.

He's an absolute disgrace

Just a band (but I love it) 😊

I met my younger self for a coffee today and he told me to do one... he had way better things to do than listen to some old guy.

What's the point in magazine industry associations? Hearst UK's CEO says it's about fighting together for the things we all hold dear

This week's Magazine Diaries newsletter is out...

Hearst's Katie Vanneck Smith on making magazine memberships successful This week on The Publisher Podcast we speak to Katie Vanneck Smith, CEO at Hearst UK. Katie's career spans The Times, The Wall Street Journal and the Telegraph, as well as co-founding Tortoise. In the...

I interviewed Hearst UK CEO Katie Vanneck Smith.

We spoke about Tortoise and the Observer, all things magazine membership - belonging, branding and bundling - and the importance of publishing teams.

Adding the Seer thing to the Traitors final destroyed a great season. Lost interest after Charlotte inevitably went. Stopped caring who won. Disappointing.

The broader narrative of politics is no longer really between left and right. It's sensible and stupid, and the stupid side is winning the fight.

It is pretty unhinged at times... as are many of the stories they're telling.

I'm not a joiner, but I've just signed up to the Patreon for the Origin Story podcast from @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social . Stumbled across it in November and have binged pretty much every episode. And now I get to hear them give the @dailymail.co.uk a kicking a week early.

While, 'I have someone bring me a steak' is super entitled bollocks.

Passion or Profit? – With Peter Houston - The Addition Peter Houston joins the show to discuss the compromises that need to be made between pasion and profit, and how to strike a balance.

I was on @charlotteahenry.bsky.social's Addition podcast chatting on about how passion is a great starting point, but profit is where the rubber really hits the road.

I am so done with these dipshits...

The Big Issue's shift from street paper to campaigning digital title Editor Paul McNamee says The Big Issue has broadened its focus from homelessness to poverty amid a digital shift.

The Big Issue’s shift from street paper to campaigning digital title

Quiet Little Voices We Were Promised Jetpacks · These Four Walls (10 Year Anniversary Edition) · Song · 2019

It's that time of the holiday season when I need to take a break from the Christmas playlists and get back to normality for a wee bit.

Wired UK to go quarterly and merge teams with global editions Tech magazine Wired UK is dropping from a bimonthly to a quarterly print schedule, it has told subscribers.

Conde going in the opposite direction from The Atlantic with Wired UK, but at least there are no layoffs being reported.

The Christmas Song The Raveonettes · The Christmas Song · Song · 2003

It's beginning to look a lot like I've started playing Christmas songs 🎄

Just seen you've been poorly Andy (need to get better at Bluesky). Hope you're on the mend.

So. Much. Beers 😊

Pod in a Pub: Media Voices Live Podcast & end of year drinks Come and join the Media Voices team for a look back at the year in media in podcast form...of course! Timings: 5.30pm: Festive buffet and drinks 6pm: Live podcast recording 6.45pm - 8pm: Hangi...

Last call for our Media Voices Pod in a Pub livestravaganza tomorrow! If you're around in London and fancy getting a pint and taking part in a live recording of an episode Media Voices, there are one or two tickets still available here:
voices.media/podinapub/

The baseline on this and Dominion are incredible

🤣 Spotify.

Twitter is an absolute toilet these days, but I miss having somewhere to post proper random nonsense. LinkedIn just doesn't feel like the right place to post about chair dancing to The Sisters of Mercy's 'Lucretia My Reflection' 🖤