PR Week recently published an article suggesting that PR professionals attempting to recruit new social media influencers should emulate A&R departments in the music industry. The job of an A&R person is to discover, refine and ...

Classified advertising used to be the financial engine behind many newspaper businesses. Recruitment, property and motors advertising, alongside birth, marriage and death notices (BMDs) might have been small in stature – but before the Internet ...

Politicians using Twitter to talk, debate and sometimes argue with the public may seem normal now, but this type of interaction is something which would have been hard to imagine fifteen years ago. Twitter is ...

  This week’s Media Updates covers moves and changes at news titles including The Guardian, The Times, Huffington Post UK, Marie Claire, We Love Pop, Great British Food, Mobile News, Office Products International and Nursing ...

With over twenty-three thousand followers under his belt, Kevin McAulay is a bonafide Instagram Influencer. Although he doesn’t see himself as being ‘instafamous’ he does admit to being recognised in the street on a regular basis. His rise to ...

Working in PR has been a life long dream for Valentina Kristensen, who is head of comms at OakNorth, a bank for entrepreneurs. Valentina cemented her place within the industry after winning the CIPR outstanding young communicator award ...

Blogger and vlogger Carl Thompson created his blog to document his personal style. As the founder of menswear label Hawkins & Shepherd, Carl offers style advice on both tailored and casual fashion. Blending menswear fashion ...

Now that the nominations for the #VuelioBlogAwards have been announced, the difficult task of selecting the winners is upon us. Next week our judging panel will gather together to decide the fate of the nominated ...

The Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT), owner of the Daily Mail and Mail Online has announced that the company is looking to cut costs by £50 million in a strategic review of its business operations. ...

Top French news publishers have put their commercial and political differences to one side and joined forces to combat the growing threat to the industry posed by ad-blockers. The movement, led by the online services trade ...

In a recent Fashion Week recap from the editors of Vogue USA, Creative Digital Director Sally Singer stated that bloggers who are paid to turn up at the event and change outfits every hour are “heralding the ...

This week’s Media Updates covers moves and changes at news titles including BBC News, The Times, Huffington Post UK, BBC Essex, Good Housekeeping, Money Management, INDEPENDENT, Daily Mail, POCKET GAMER and the Sunday Herald.   ...

A few weeks ago we published a media spotlight with entrepreneur, digital marketing strategist and publicist Natasha Courtenay-Smith. Following the launch of her highly anticipated book The Million Dollar Blog, we’re thrilled that Natasha will be ...

Chris Hewitt, CEO of public relations company Berkeley thinks most press releases are boring and in need of a desperate shake-up. In a new Berkeley whitepaper Chris pinpoints the common mistakes PRs make and presents ...

At a time when British sport is riding high in the general publics’ affections, largely following the huge successes of Team GB in the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the national game (football) is ...

Communicating with different stakeholders and reaching niche audiences is something Lansons, a reputation management consultancy has had years of experience doing. Over the last 25 years the company has adapted to the ever-changing communications landscape – ...

UK newspaper publishers will be hoping there is a degree of truth in the old saying: “When America sneezes, the world catches a cold”. In fact, if the news that print titles in the US are ...

In the same week that UK newspaper publishers delivered a briefing to government ministers highlighting their concerns about how the technology giants like Google and Facebook are impacting on the industry and calling out for regulation ...

The lines between journalism and PR have always been blurred. Both industries feed from each other and have similar objectives of wanting to share information with a given public. There is also the historic and ...

London Fashion week may be over but Ed Lemont, founder and editor of The Discerning Man, one of the leading UK lifestyle blog has given us an exclusive insider’s bloggers guide to London Fashion Week. ...