Twitter is set to drop its default egg avatar in an attempt to encourage users to upload their own images and help fight the association the social network has with online abuse and trolling. The ...

George Osborne’s appointment as editor of the Evening Standard showed just how easy it is for the worlds of politics and the media to collide. That’s why we’ve integrated our media and political contacts on one ...

Using research about audience behaviour and social psychology, Claire Wardle pioneers new ways in which newsrooms can tackle issues associated with fake news and manipulated content. Currently leading strategy and research at First Draft, a non-profit ...

In the old days, all you needed to work in the PR industry was a laptop and a mobile. Two pieces of technology that feel surgically glued to you as a 24/7 news cycle means ...

If you want to ensure your organisation influences the political agenda, a public affairs strategy will be crucial to your wider stakeholder engagement. And if you’re struggling to identify who to engage with and how, ...

The Metropolitan Police’s communications chief, Martin Fewell, has spoken out about an image on the front page of The Times newspaper showing PC Keith Palmer as he lay dying following the recent Westminster terror attacks. Fewell, ...

This week’s Political Updates, covers moves and changes at all levels of government.    House of Commons   On Wednesday, Article 50 was triggered by Prime Minister Teresa May, beginning the process of the United Kingdom ...

As content marketing and social media continues to blur the lines between the marketing and PR industries, you don’t have to look too far to find a new “Super Breed” of comms professionals with combined ...

The Daily and Sunday Telegraph are to cut a number of production jobs at its London base and outsource sub-editing duties to Press Association staff at their HQ in Howden, Yorkshire. Press reports suggest upwards of ...

The digital edition of The Times, one of the few leading newspaper titles to remain tightly concealed behind a paywall, has revealed that paid subscriptions have grown by a staggering 200 percent since the newspaper abandoned ...

The Daily Mail’s ‘legs-it’ front page has amassed over 300 complaints ‘’and counting’’, the Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso) has confirmed. The focus on Theresa May and Nicola Sturgeon’s legs during a meeting to discuss ...

Snapchat has signed a deal with MGM to develop original TV programming for the social network. The partnership follows similar deals with television networks including NBC, ESPN and the BBC. According to media reports, standalone ...

Karen Woodham launched Blazing Minds back in 2008 to try and connect with more people from her hometown in North Wales and further afield. Having far exceeded her initial goal, Blazing Minds has become a ...

This week’s Political Updates, covers moves and changes at all levels of government.    House of Commons   UKIP MP for Clacton, Douglas Carswell, has quit the party after serving as the first elected MP for UKIP since ...

George Osborne is a busy man. He’s a MP, works as an advisor to a US investment firm, chairs the Northern Powerhouse Partnership, is a Kissinger Fellow, a popular after-dinner speaker and, somewhat controversially, the ...

If I was on the lookout for a PR company to help my organisation reach the even elusive millennial audience and I didn’t hear the word “mobile” in the first line of any pitch, I’d ...

The decision by Channel 4’s home affairs correspondent Simon Israel to break the unverified news that Trevor Brooks, aka Abu Izzadeen, was the prime suspect in Wednesday’s terror attack, has raised questions over pressure on ...

According to a new survey by Public relations agency, Holyrood PR, an overwhelming number of influential journalists say that PR photography is crucial to achieving media coverage.  Questioning more than 120 frontline journalists, from newspaper editors to freelance ...

Matt Brittin, Google’s head of Europe, the Middle East and Africa, has publically apologised after adverts for a number of prominent brands and UK government agencies appeared alongside extremist content on the search engine’s YouTube video ...

When Colleen McEnaney got the opportunity to work at the Wall Street Journal in the UK, she jumped at the chance. Originally from the US, Colleen now lives in London and works as a graphics editor at the ...