Fox Ratfinks the Grey Lady: An Antipodean on the Aussie Roberto Marinho

Reproduced in theObservatório da Imprensa (Brazil), Argemiro Ferreira keeps an antipodean eye on the Roberto Marinho of London and Manhattan, the Aussie expat Rupert Murdoch.
the case is reminiscent of a recent episode here in Brazil, in which Globo managed to get a journalist who had written about its declining ratings fired from his job. The [...]

Dreyfus on Agrenco Takeover: “We Won’t Be Ready ‘Til We’re Ready”

A follow-up to today’s Material Event from Agrenco with respect to an anticipated bailoutby Dreyfus. Source: Plantão Empresas. Dreyfus issues the following response to

Agrenco-LDC: Disclosure of a Material Non-Event?

Com relacao ao comunicado da Agrenco aos mercados datada de 9 de julho de 2008, a LDC, atendendo a expressa solicitacao da Agrenco, informa que continua a [...]

Agrenco-LDC: Disclosure of a Material Non-Event?

Speaking of the Grand Caymans on the River Tietê, and pulling a Fastow one on the tax man, an interesting case of regulatory disclosure and crisis communications today from the Plantão Empresas of the Bovespa, the São Paulo exchange’s corporate actions newswire.
Agrenco ran into trouble in Brazil recently when two of its founding partners were [...]

“Newspapers Plan Corrections Over Iran Missile Photo”

Newspapers Plan Corrections Over Iran Missile Photo: Why you should always reality-test the press release from interested parties.
It was an arresting image: Four missiles arcing skyward in near perfect symmetry, perhaps a prelude to war. It was ominous. It was also a fake.
Newspapers and Web sites around the world were duped into running a [...]

Dantas’ Inferno: “My Arrest Was Politically Motivated”

Daniel Dantas vê motivação política em prisão: Top story in the Folha Online today is an “exclusive interview” by Claudio Dantas Sequeira — no relation, presumably — with Opportunity banker Daniel Dantas, arrested on charges of money laundering and attempted bribery,among other things.
Daniel Dantas sees poliitical motivation behind his arrest
Dantas Sequeira, a founder of Abraji, [...]

Dantas’ Inferno: Dantas and the Press

Banker Daniel Dantas is back in jail. The Supreme Court had granted him habeas corpus after he challenged his “temporary” detention.
The lower court issued a new arrest warrant yesterday for “preventive” detention, based on evidence reportedly gathered in the course of serving search warrants, according to which Dantas was behind the attempt to bribe a [...]