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March 2021

Tory-linked PR firm hired to provide test and trace 'reputation management'

Exclusive: firm owned by Matthew Freud won ‘strategic communications’ Covid contract without tender

October 2016

Matthew Freud sells £12m luxury yacht to own company

PR guru’s accounts show his business acquired Kingdom Come last year, as he received massive dividend payout

January 2016

Matthew Freud back in the US with purchase of Brew

Acquisition of tech PR agency marks his return to the US seven years after he folded his New York office into a local agency

October 2015

Matthew Freud: 'I paid 684 times more tax than Facebook'

PR chief, who pocketed more than £11m from his agency last year, attacks tax system for foreign-owned companies

June 2015

Media Monkey
Media Monkey: Kim Kardashian, Piers Morgan, will.i.am and Glastonbury
The K Clan at Cannes, the Mail’s floating gin palace, The Voice and the ‘real WIA’ at the BBC

December 2014

MediaGuardian 100

Who are the most powerful people in the UK’s media right now?

November 2014

Matthew Freud was ‘within 24 hours’ of selling minority stake to WPP

Sir Martin Sorrell had talks with owner of Freud Communications with view to buying stake of just under 50% in deal valued at £90m

October 2014

Matthew Freud and Elisabeth Murdoch to divorce

Media power couple, estimated to be worth £250m, to split after years of alleged tension between PR guru and Rupert Murdoch. By Mark Sweney

September 2014

Greenslade
Piers Morgan, the man who marches to the sound of his own drummer
Roy Greenslade
Roy Greenslade registers his astonishment at Morgan's ability to survive setbacks that should have ended his career years ago

Matthew Freud’s earnings rise 30% to £8.4m

Pre-tax profits at PR and marketing agency group increase to £8.5m as it wins new business including Comparethemarket

Media Monkey
Matthew Freud shows teeth with Michael Wolff snub
Media Monkey: The PR guru had no place for Rupert Murdoch’s unofficial biographer at his post-GQ awards bash

July 2014

Matthew Freud buys £4m stake in PR company Huntsworth

Freud acquires 3% stake in company, which owns string of PR firms including Citigate, Grayling and Red. By Mark Sweney

December 2013

Greenslade
New revelations over Rupert Murdoch's feud with Matthew Freud
Mail on Sunday reveals latest example of antagonism between them

November 2013

At times, refusing an invitation is the wisest option

Catherine Bennett
Catherine Bennett: David Cameron has taken flak for going to Sri Lanka. Engagements at home should also have raised concern

October 2013

Matthew Freud takes home more than £6m as agency group's revenues grow

PR and marketing company, Freud Communications, grew revenues by 9% in 2012 to almost £38m. By Mark Sweney

September 2013

MediaGuardian 100 2013 1-100
49. Matthew Freud
Job: chairman, Freud Communications
Age: 49
Industry: public relations, marketing
2012 ranking: 30

December 2012

Media Monkey
Matthew Freud's highs and lows
Media Monkey: Which editor received a Martini in the face from the PR maestro and who slapped him down in a withering email riposte?

October 2012

Matthew Freud forgoes dividend, despite golden year for PR agency

Freud Communications profits rise 30% thanks to deals with London Olympics, BMW and Department of Health. By Mark Sweney

September 2012

MediaGuardian 100 2012 1-100
30. Matthew Freud
Job title: chairman, Freud Communications
Age: 48
Industry: public relations, marketing
2011 ranking: 31

June 2012

Michael Wolff on media and modern life
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Michael Wolff
Michael Wolff: Hoist on his Leveson inquiry petard, the prime minister's account of accidental ties to the Murdoch elite was painfully unconvincing

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