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Matthew Freud

March 2021

  • Matthew Freud arrives at a Tom Ford fragrance launch party at Mark’s Club in Mayfair, London, in January 2020

    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 is the sole shareholder of Freud Communications

    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 has acquired US tech PR agency Brew

    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 has attacked the amount of tax Facebook pays

    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

  • Kim Kardashian

    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 graphic

    MediaGuardian 100

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

November 2014

  • Matthew Freud

    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

  • Jonathan Yeo: Portraits - Private View

    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

  • Roy Greenslade

    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 earned more than £8m last year, his company's accounts have revealed

    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
  • Matthew Freud

    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

    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

  • Rupert Murdoch

    Greenslade
    New revelations over Rupert Murdoch's feud with Matthew Freud

    Mail on Sunday reveals latest example of antagonism between them

November 2013

  • Catherine Bennett

    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

    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

  • Matthew Freud

    MediaGuardian 100 2013 1-100
    49. Matthew Freud

    Job: chairman, Freud Communications
    Age: 49
    Industry: public relations, marketing
    2012 ranking: 30

December 2012

  • Elisabeth Murdoch and Matthew Freud

    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

  • Olympic torch

    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

  • Matthew Freud

    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

    Michael Wolff on media and modern life
    David Cameron's governing party of good friends and neighbours

    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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