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I believe in free speech. As a PR, I know that journalism is my bread and butter and as a human being I know that a free press is vital to any democracy.
Lately journalists have been up in arms over the use of superinjunctions. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll be clued up on the latest drama over the cover up and eventual illegal revelation that Ryan Giggs had an affair with ex-Big Brother nobody Imogen Thomas or [...]
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Is this a surprise? Given the choice would you rather have more money or less money? Fact is, you’re not often given the choice. But the universities have been, and three quarters have voted for ‘more, please’.
This is despite that fact that many of the institutions in or close to the £9,000 bracket have different reputations, locations, facilities, etc.
And the number of schools applying for the maximum will obviously be an embarrassment to the government, who had initially said that [...]
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I’ve been monitoring the ‘progress’ of Charlie Sheen, Hollywood hell-raiser du jour, with growing interest for the last couple of months. It was increasingly clear to me that he was losing his marbles and that surely his lifestyle would catch up with him and everything would end in tears. So far, so Hollywood – seen it a million times.
Of course, in recent weeks, the media attention surrounding his private life has ramped up significantly with tales of his firing from [...]
Continue Reading →Well we’ve had a great start to 2011 – plenty of new business has arrived on our desks and now we have some exciting news to share with our readers! We are pleased to announce our partnership with Starr Tincup, a marketing consultancy specialising in the HR and other niche markets.
We’ve been providing PR and communication services to clients for almost ten years now, and by partnering with Starr Tincup we will be able to further expand our offering on an [...]
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I was listening, as usual, to the Radio4 Today programme the other day as I was getting ready for work. I had risen with a feeling of positive anticipation for the business year ahead. We’d had to work harder than ever in 2010 but our turnover and profit were up on 09 and our work pipeline was looking good with a number of new retained contracts being signed. And then on comes the grim reaper himself Robert Peston ( who I am convinced really works for the [...]
Continue Reading →Well, no, they’re not really, but I thought I’d just get the SEO stuff out of the way at the beginning and then I could get on with writing what I actually want to (that’s the digital world for you).
No, the real enemy of effective PR is the high ‘idiot count’ scored by the PR industry itself.
When I’m talking to any potential new client, the main problem is not convincing them that PR is a useful tool which will help [...]
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