media

News-jacking. Issues-tracking. Call it what you like, but a rapid response to breaking news has long been a route to...

22 October 2016

2015

Here, there and everywhere: rant

I’ve just read a story on the BBC concerning Nokia and a London-based tech startup called Lowdownapp, over the right to the...

31 January 2015

2012

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The time is running out for vanity metrics

Social media has come a long way. You can tell this by its ubiquity. Back in the late 1990s when...

12 November 2012

2011

communication crisis media

Go ugly early

Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, is uncomfortable. The killing of Osama Bin Laden prompted this revelation from the man-of-the-cloth’s man-of-the-cloth. But...

8 May 2011

love marriage media

Let love be genuine. abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good

The build-up to the royal wedding, all the hype and expectation, left me fairly cold. I don’t have a problem...

30 April 2011

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Top tips for journalists wanting to make it in PR

I’ve lost count of how many times someone has talked to me about the move I made from journalism into...

26 March 2011