Surfing the channels last night I stumbled upon this episode of Channel 4’s excellent Dispatches series. I was even more intrigued than usual because it featured a major local employer here in Nottingham, the credit reference giant Experian. I’m not going to go into the whys and wherefores and I
As far as publicly admitting there’s “trouble at t’mill” goes, this is pretty strong stuff. I should probably wedge “beleaguered” in here somewhere but it is fair to say that by opening his arms to feedback with the Have Your Say survey, beleaguered (ooh, there it is!) group chief executive
My publisher got in touch with me last week and asked me to write a brief piece on anything useful for PR. Quite a wide-ranging brief that. I had a ponder, asked a few followers on facebook and twitter and eventually came up with an area of real concern but
I was going to write a blog last Friday about how PR is all about timing and typically…I delayed it. Good thing too as I wanted to use a LIVE case study. You see, it isn’t a simple case of bashing out a press release here and there. The best
The furore over British Lions coach Warren Gatland’s controversial decision to drop Irish and British Lions legend Brian O’Driscroll has opened up questions of quotas, xenophobia and a win-at-all-costs mentality. It takes me back (believe it or not) to a day in the lower sixth at school when the head
This blog is a bit of departure from the norm. I tell my clients to keep their blogs and any content 80/20 in favour of useful info v selfish ends (i.e. blatant promotion) . It is crucial with regards PR and editorial too – journalists want things their readers
Well, this is a pickle. Poor old Lord Hall has only been Director General of the BBC for a week or so and he’s already faced with a major issue. With “Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead” riding high in the charts following a very successful facebook campaign by anti-Thatcher
Thanks to Loulla-Mae Eleftheriou-Smith from PR Week for much of this content. Labour MP Chuka Umunna is in the firing line after failing to deny that one of his team likened him to Barack Obama on Wikipedia, under the pseudonym ‘Socialdemocrat’. In case you aren’t up to date on all
You could see this coming really. Further to yesterday’s blog (but not as a result I must add!) Paris Brown is stepping down from her role in the wake of the twitter row which has engulfed her and the commission. More on that here Some of the statement from Paris: