Posted on: 12th June 2011 in Public relations
Mike Hughes, the Evening Gazette's Business and Features Editor, blogs over on their website about feeling (if I might paraphrase) a little perturbed when PRs thank him when he runs a story from them.
Posted on: 7th March 2011 in General
Fascinating piece by PR blogger “Hacked off Flack”:
Posted on: 7th March 2011 in Local government
To no-one’s great surprise, and to a great sigh of resignation from local government communicators, the post-consultation ‘Code of recommended practice on local authority publicity’ has been published by DCLG.
Posted on: 14th November 2010 in Local government, Politics
David Cameron’s crackdown on the civil service’s use of management consultants is bad news for one of the UK’s most successful industries
Posted on: 22nd June 2010 in Public relations
I’ve come across a couple of agencies in the last few weeks who are selling their services on the back of a no coverage, no fee model.
Does anyone else remember Smash Hits magazine? As a pre-teen did you pounce on the Top 20 song lyrics therein, desperate to memorise them? I hope it wasn’t just me. I’m still fascinated by song lyrics today. There are those that tell a story, like Rod Stewart’s ‘Maggie May’ and those that are wonderfully absurd, like The Beatles’ ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’.