Media Monkey’s Diary: Rebekah Brooks, WIA, Sarah Vine and Snowy

Read Media Monkey’s diary from the Monday print pages• To the Paddy Power Political Book awards 2015 at London’s Imax cinema, where the winners included Guardian cartoonist Martin Rowson, Andrew Marr revealed his next book (presumably another novel because his first one was, er, so remarkable) will be “extremely rude about Labour” when collecting a lifetime award, and the host Rory Bremner took no prisoners as he laid into Cameron, Miliband, Farage, Brown, Obama and Clinton. Was it wise, though, to also target the publisher and broadcaster Iain Dale, mocking his LBC gig as on the margins of radio? Dale founded the awards (with the prize money provided by Lord Ashcroft) and remains the eminence grise behind them, so the impressionist’s chances of a rebooking may have instantly slumped.• Rumour continues to associate Rebekah Brooks, the former Sun and News of the World editor and News International supremo, with a top job that would reunite her with Rupert Murdoch; and Monkey can add a potentially confirmatory clue with a contact spotting her (unless it was Jessica Chastain) as part of the large Murdochian delegation at the recent CES tech trade fair in Las Vegas. There have been suggestions that the post could be at the top of 21st Century Fox division of his empire, although she would meet double resistance there as a Brit and an incomer from newspapers; perhaps instead she’ll be at Rupert’s side as nurse when he goes on Twitter, as vital a job as can be imagined given... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

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