This week’s Media Updates covers moves and changes at news titles including BBC News, the MailOnline, the Guardian, ITV Wales; lifestyle titles including the Shortlist, Men’s Health, NME.com, FHM and Zoo; trade titles including Marketing, ...

Suze, aka the Luxury Columnist, started blogging having been urged by her friends to start sharing her growing collection of amazing experiences and her love of photography – and now she’s on a mission is to help ...

If you’ve ever attended a busy networking event (and who in PR hasn’t?) you’ll know how hard it can be to pluck up the courage to introduce yourself to a group of strangers and start ...

When punk rock impresario Malcolm McLaren wanted to raise the profile of his band The Sex Pistols, he sent them out on tour. But the young band didn’t play the usual club venues up and ...

I’m sure many students of media training will have watched this over the weekend and revelled in the mastery of interview techniques on show. Some of you might have rather enjoyed it. Was anyone else reminded ...

James Watt, the founder of drinks company BrewDog, claims in his new book Business For Punks: Break All The Rules that NOT having access to marketing and PR budgets can actually be a “massive advantage” for businesses ...

Facebook makes my blood boil. Barely a day goes by without some false “truth” being floated on my social network wall by people, who quite frankly should know better. Tall tales of how our privacy ...

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 ...

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 ...

Executives at troubled European car manufacturer VW could do a lot worse than take a look at the PR Playbook of the Catholic Church when attempting to re-build their tarnished brand in the US. Less ...

Jeremy Corbyn has not only changed the face of British politics, he may just have re-written the modern-day PR rulebook. Image is out, authenticity is in. Like him or loath him (and I believe it ...

The Covet Beauty has just launched! Lets welcome Caterina’s make-up blog with a quick take 5 interview. Why did you decide to start blogging? I started blogging because I’ve always read a lot of blogs and ...

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 ...

Here is a quick 5 minute interview with new beauty, fashion and lifestyle blog, Along Came Molli. Why did you decide to start blogging? I began blogging as it is my dream to be a writer ...

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) ...

Lets take a quick 5 minutes to find out more about Arjun Bhundia’s new blog ME MYSELF & Travel. Why did you decide to start blogging? I’ve always been passionate about blogging and have created a ...

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 ...

Summertime and the pitching is easy. With the kids out of school and families jetting off for the summer, you’d be forgiven for thinking August would be a slow month in PR. But when the ...

Craft and lifestyle blog LARS FACES has arrived! Here is a quick 5 minutes to find out more about this lovely new blog… Why did you decide to start blogging? I’ve always tinkered with blogs growing ...

Beauty Blog My So Kohl’d Life is here! Lets take a quick 5 minutes to find out more from Blogger Beth Elliot. Why did you decide to start blogging? I seem to be the ‘go to’ person ...