“Authenticity” was a bit of a political buzzword just a few months ago. No matter what you thought about politicians like Nigel Farage or Jeremy Corbyn – there could be no doubting their authenticity. They ...

With the Conservative manifesto launch taking place yesterday, we now have manifestos from all three main political parties. But how have they been received on social media? In a policy shift which pundits have taken to ...

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Magazine Publisher Hearst has announced it will be moving into new office space in the heart of London’s West End. The move will see all of Hearst’s titles, which include Cosmopolitan, Elle, Esquire and Inside Soap, ...

A judge removed two journalists from the press bench at the trial where a teenager was later found guilty of stabbing a police dog and his handler. The judge was concerned that a full press bench ...

It’s always the case with election campaigns that the parties’ plans will be disrupted by events outside of their control. This weekend, for example, the opposition parties have been using the cyber-attack which affected the ...

A recent report in PR Week suggested that nearly 60 percent of PR professionals questioned in a survey had suffered from poor mental health. This figure has risen significantly when compared to a similar survey taken ...

This week’s Political Updates, covers moves and changes at all levels of government.    House of Commons   The House of Commons has been dissolved ahead of the general election. The House will return on Monday ...

The overnight leaking of the Labour manifesto has created fresh divisions within the party and delighted aspects of the press, which are calling it the ‘second longest suicide note in history’ (after Michael Foot’s disastrous ...

A senior QC has claimed that the local media has largely abandoned press benches at court houses and “The public receive no professional narrative of the way we arrive at justice.” Bar Council chairman Andrew Langdon ...

Media reports suggest that anti-EU groups used highly sophisticated and largely unregulated “dark” political advertising to target specific groups of people in the run up to the Brexit vote. It is understood that pro Leave groups ...

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Former political aides to Labour and Conservative ministers have been given jobs at Facebook in a bid to increase its impact as a political tool in the build up to the general election. This has ...

As the general election gets underway, we’ve compiled all the news, policy announcements, stakeholder reaction and social media analysis to keep you up to date. Arriving in your inbox on Monday, you’ll have a round-up ...

OK, print media isn’t quite dead – but it no longer lives on its own. It happily co-habits with numerous other strands of digital and social media. When you invite print media to cover your ...

With only five weeks to go until the general election, strategists (and agencies) have been scrambling to put together campaigns that will have an impact in such a short space of time. Who are the ...

This week’s Political Updates, covers moves and changes at all levels of government.    House of Commons   The deadline to submit an application to stand at the general election is the 11th May, after which ...

The charity sector is a gift to budding PR pros and content marketers. Unlike other “business” sectors where content might yield very little “human interest”, the content available to the charity sector almost writes itself. ...

George Osborne, the former Chancellor of the Exchequer, started his first full working day as the editor of the Evening Standard with a promise. Osborne told journalists as he strolled into the office with a bundle of ...

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