Jeremy Pepper comments on an interesting article from InformationWeek that reports that press news releases have overtaken trade press as sources of news for knowledge workers. Technorati : InformationWeek, Jeremy Pepper, PR, news release, press release, public relations
Category: Media
Charles Arthur of The Guardian has an excellent article on his blog that should be compulsory reading for any PR tasked with ghost writing a by-lined article on behalf of a client. Technorati : Charles Arthur, PR, The Guardian, public…
Tom Watson, the UK’s first blogging MP and now a junior defence minister (apt for an ex-AEEU wonk), has an amusing real-life story about what really happens when government ministers are being interviewed on the radio. Contrary to popular media…
Media Orchard has a fun little experiment to assess some media, marketing and PR blogs for their readability using the Gunning-Fog test. I thought I’d add a few extra to the pot (one or two duplicates) and see how PRs…
UK Press Gazette reports on an intriguing spat between The Economist and WH Smith (the UK’s largest chain of newsagents) which has seen the title removed from the shelves of all the chain’s high street stores. Technorati : The Economist
The Manchester Evening News (MEN) has appointed deputy business editor Chris Barry as its new business editor. The MEN carries two pages of business news every day and recently relaunched its business section which is published every Tuesday as a…
In the comments Tina Lang-Stuart of Shift Communications (of Boston and San Francisco) is questioning my stance on the death of the news release and the benefits of the alternative ‘social media news release’. She wants: To deliver some background…
In the comments Tina Lang-Stuart of Shift Communications (of Boston and San Francisco) is questioning my stance on the death of the news release and the benefits of the alternative ‘social media news release’. She wants: To deliver some background…
As I work on my presentation for Friday’s Delivering the New PR conference I’m listening to the For Immediate Release interview with Tom Foremski of SiliconValleyWatcher. It’s a very good interview. They are discussing Tom’s post about Die Press Release!…
My news feeds have just revealed this little bit of news. PR Week UK is now podcasting. Great is probably your first thought, but wait until you see what they are actually doing. The podcast is in partnership with the…