Matthew Balmforth, Amy Byard and Ellie Hallsworth have joined PR and social media agency Umpf. Matthew has joined as an account manager from Leeds-based agency Lucre. He has previously worked with Jet2.com, Hallmark, University of ...

Luke Westaway is the editor of Crave at CNET UK and recipient of the Digital Editorial Individual Award at the AOP Digital Publishing Awards. In the second part of his interview, Luke talks about video content, working with PR, ...

The second part of our interview with Jocks&Nerds founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Agerman Ross explores the magazine’s distribution model, social media and working with PRs. Part one in available here.  What makes your distribution model ...

As Jocks&Nerds approaches its second print anniversary, founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Agerman Ross spoke to Cision about the background of the magazine, its target audience and working with brands. The second part of the interview, ...

Woodthorpe Comms has launched a new ‘guided’ service aimed at start-ups that want to try PR out for themselves. As more people take their futures into their own hands during the economic turmoil, Woodthorpe Comms ...

Not My Year Off is featured in this week’s Media Updates. Author Tas spoke to Cision about her fun toddler, balancing life and working with PRs.  Why should people read your blog? My blog started off ...

SubScribe is featured in this week’s Media Updates. Author Liz Gerard spoke to Cision about the media, newspapers and working with PRs. Why should people read your blog?I’ve had a lifetime’s experience in newspapers and ...

The videos from the recent Cision Breakfast Club are now available online. Cision was joined by Tatler’s travel editor Francisca Kellett, Mademoiselle Robot blogger Laetitia Wajnapel and freelance journalist and PR Dina Behrman to discuss pitch ...

We spend a lot of time talking to journalists, editors and bloggers about what PRs should and shouldn’t do. Our interviews often produce the same sort of answers to the question: ‘What do PRs do ...

Seek or Shout was named winner of Acquia’s Partner Sites of the Year Award in the Social category, for its partnership with Drupal developers Isovera. Seek or Shout is a PR and media social community ...

SoGlos is an award-winning online magazine covering entertainment and the arts in Gloucestershire. Recently nominated in the Online Media Awards for Best Local/Regional News Site, the website is run by publisher James Fyrne and his ...

Video is increasingly becoming the medium of choice for web users, with Dynamics Media reporting that video consumption has grown 45% year on year. As PR is increasingly about creating and owning content, video creation ...

Shall we publish it? Post it? Print it? Tweet it? Or Pin it? Does it require links, likes, retweets, or +1s? Gordon Kelly reveals the technologies that PRs should know how to use and, more ...

Rhodri Marsden writes a weekly lifestyle column and monthly technology column for The Independent, a weekly column about Twitter for Shortlist.com and technology features for other publications. Rhodri spoke to Cision about David Bowie’s vegetable ...

Cision’s latest breakfast club, with The Daily Telegraph’s consumer tech editor Matt Warman and British Beauty Blogger Jane Cunningham, is now available online. The morning’s discussion has been broken down into bite-sized pieces for your ...

Cision’s most recent webinar looked at ways for PRs to build relationships with the media. Hosted by editorial coordinator Jake O’Neill, the webinar covered social media, pitch tips and journalists’ PR pet peeves. Data from ...

This morning’s live webinar will be available to download later this week. In the meantime, there were a few questions that we didn’t manage to squeeze in, the answers to which are below. Why do ...

As bloggers have become an increasingly popular target for PRs, it can sometimes be difficult to distinguish adverts from content. In the UK, critics accuse bloggers of failing to disclose the true nature of sponsored ...

Time for another weekly round up of comms news curated via @CisionUK. Beginner’s Guide to Google AdSense for Publishers by @kleinja via distilled ‘The lines between paid and organic search are blurring while millions of ...