Congratulations to Graham "Ruddy" Ruddick.
Little old Betaville's old chum and former colleague from our time on The Daily Telegraph's City desk has struck a deal with Richard Harpin to sell his excellent news letter Off to Lunch to Business Leader, a magazine and events company backed by the multi-millionaire founder of HomeServe.
This morning Ruddy writes:..
So, Betaville's old chum, Graham Ruddick, has lasted six months with his new newsletter Off to Lunch.
Graham "Ruddy" Ruddick was formerly deputy business editor on The Times and previously worked on the City desk at The Daily Telegraph with little old Betaville.
Now he has his own start up newsletter on Substack, a technology platform that allows writers and hacks to set up their own publications...
Farewell then Graham Ruddick, a fine young business journalist and chum of Betaville's from our time working together at The Daily Telegraph.
The deputy business editor of The Times is leaving the newspaper to set up his own thing at Substack, the start up that provides hacks, writers and anybody else a platform to set up their own publishable stream of consciousness...
The Kleinmanator of Sky News is claiming he had the scoop about Mike Ashley buying House of Fraser out of administration. I guess that may be a valid claim amid his minute by minute scoopage (er, or is it coverage?) of the fast moving situation...
It was good to see former colleague Graham "Ruddy" Ruddick land a cracker jack story on the front page of the main book of today's The Times.
Graham, who Betaville worked with at The Daily Telegraph, effectively broke the story about the unfortunate goings on at the Institute of Directors (although Betaville is sure the Kleinmanator will claim it). I have pasted a link Graham and Alex Ralph's story below:..
The Guardian has just announced that Graham Ruddick, a former colleague during our time at The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph, has been made the newspaper's Media Editor. Here is the link:
It's great to see a former colleague flourishing in his new (ish) job.
Graham "Ruddy" Ruddick was a graduate trainee when I was working the markets and M&A beat at The Daily Telegraph a few years ago. ..