The Evening Standard has announced the appointment of George Osborne as editor. He’ll take up the role in May, succeeding current editor Sarah Sands who will replace Jamie Angus as editor of BBC Radio 4’s ...

Just three years ago, Scotland held its first independence referendum, securing a no vote with a massive 84.59% turnout. While the SNP was elected in the Scottish Parliament with a mandate to secure a second ...

Philip Hammond’s first (and last) Spring Budget pulled few punches, with the main surprises coming in the form of tax increases for the self-employed and a notable absence of Brexit. The online press, social media ...

Mark Zuckerberg has posted a lengthy manifesto responding to criticism of Facebook and outlining his vision as to how the platform can work to repair ever increasing polarisation. This has done nothing to dispel rumours ...

Seumas Milne, who was previously an associate editor and columnist at the Guardian, has announced he will permanently leave his position there to continue in his role as director of communications for Jeremy Corbyn. There ...

Tomorrow’s key influencer may not be the same as today’s. A blogger with influence within one sector may not resonate with another, while newcomers join the online community every day. Bloggers and vloggers have become ...

You’ve got your corporate online media centre up and running, but traffic still isn’t coming to your site. We’ve put together a checklist of essential items to help optimise your online media centre. 1. Easily accessible ...

Remember the ALS ice Bucket challenge? What started off as a simple campaign to promote awareness of the disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis quickly turned into a social media phenomenon. Would you like to learn the secret ...

The shortlist for what is set to be the blogger industry’s biggest night of the year – the inaugural Vuelio Blog Awards, has been announced today. We’d like to congratulate all the fantastic bloggers that ...

What does the term “PR” actually mean to your clients? Perhaps more importantly, what does it mean to your potential clients? PR essentially tells the layman (the person you actively sell your services to) that ...

There are few places as exciting, alive and fast-changing as the blogosphere. From hard-hitting political stalwarts, trend setting fashionistas to struggling new mums and more – its all there, all built from personal experiences, opinions, rants and ...

As PR platforms go, Twitter is pretty powerful. It has the potential to reach a targeted audience within seconds and can harness the viral opportunity of a community almost instantly. News can be broken and ...

Innovation in UK marketing campaigns is suffering due to the uncertainty that exists around EU privacy laws. According to digital marketing company, Greenlight’s latest Brand Personalisation Index, as many nine out of ten (88%) marketers believe that their brand ...

Social media has been buzzing with jokes, puns and memes surrounding David Cameron after an unofficial biography by Lord Ashroft titled ‘Call Me Dave,’ serialised in the Daily Mail on 21 September, sensationalised the Prime Minister’s ...

When a Picture Really is Worth a 1,000 Words Take a look through recent history and you will find numerous images that have dramatically swung public opinion and steered the media and governments to change ...

Many organisations are built on the back of an enigmatic personality or thought leader. It would be hard to imagine huge corporations like Facebook or Virgin without their charismatic leaders (Mark Zuckerburg and Richard Branson) ...

If there is one thing that fundraising inititaives such as the ILS Ice Bucket Challenge, No Make Up Selfie and Stephen Sutton’s appeal for The Teenage Cancer Trust has taught us, it is that social media ...

Carphone Warehouse might have thought that things couldn’t have gotten any worse last week when they discovered that as many as 2.4 million of their customers potentially had their personal details stolen in a sophisticated ...

The News Academy – News UK’s flagship programme for aspiring journalists – kick starts its second annual Summer School, a free week-long intensive training programme that is on from 23-28 August for students aged 16 to 18 from ...

Ofcom’s 2015 Communications Market Report marks the rise and rise of digital communications. Whether it is smartphones or social media, the findings reflect how people have become ‘hooked’ on their phones and social networks to ...