Posts tagged: Powerscourt

The spinner, the rainmaker and the podcast ... - Part 2

Monday, 3 April 2023, 1:53 pm

So, perhaps Merve Metcalfe of Dean Street Advisors has a point after all.

His interview about cheap valuations and take privates of British conmpanies on the Powerscourt Friday Fix podcast series went out on a Friday and by Monday morning American private equity giant Blackstone had announced the £500 million purchase of London-listed property company Industrials REIT.

Metcalfe, though, doesn't appear to have any involvement with that deal...

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The spinners, the hacks and the podcasts... - Part 2

Monday, 28 November 2022, 8:02 pm

Financial flacks (known in the real world as public relations executives) keep on pushing their podcasts and some of them are actually pretty good.

Take, for example, the most recent installment of the "Friday Fix" by Russell "Russ" Lynch of Powerscourt, a City media relations firm.

Russ gets to interview his old boss Chris Williams, who runs the Telegraph Media Group's business department...

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The spinners, the hacks and the podcasts...

Thursday, 28 July 2022, 6:09 pm

Little old Betaville has noticed there appear to be a growing number of super senior City hacks getting involved with podcasts set up by super senior flacks (also known as financial public relations executives).

This trend appears to have been kicked off by Jonathan Ford, former Financial Times Lex and leader writer, and Neil Collins, former City editor of The Daily Telegraph...

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