James Harding has been appointed director, BBC News and Current Affairs. Harding was previously editor of The Times, a role he resigned from late last year. Harding will replace Helen Boaden who became director of ...

Justin Bieber may be the most followed individual on Twitter (or he may not) but apparently he’s not a fan of Spider-Man as he hasn’t seemed to have grasped: ‘With great power comes great responsibility’. ...

It’s social media Friday once again and today we’re measuring mentions of the Masters 2013. A hotly anticipated tournament, the Masters started yesterday and will come to a conclusion this Sunday. In the build-up to ...

My weekly pick of comms news is back. Curated via @CisionUK. Blogger engagement: the benefits for brands by @Harcagypsy via Econsultancy‘Quite simply, if you take the time to engage with bloggers in the correct manner, then bloggers in ...

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 ...

Google has launched a new rendering engine called Blink as a fork of the ever-popular WebKit (reports wish-he-was-a-geek Jake O’Neill). Once again Google and Apple are diverging with this key strategic development in the battle ...

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 ...

Described on the BBC News Channel as the first major public figure to have died in the era of Twitter, Baroness Thatcher will be the topic of online discussion for the foreseeable future. How the ...

Kelvin MacKenzie, ex-editor of The Sun and current columnist for the Daily Mail, is having a bad week. On 4 April, his new column appeared on the Telegraph’s website invariably insulting teachers, the government, Masterchef, ...

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 ...

With an estimated audience of between 500 and 600 million people, the Grand National is surely one of the biggest sporting events of the year. Often even attracting non-betting people to have a flutter, the ...

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 Cision’s editorial coordinator Jake O’Neill spoke to Bernie Keith about Tony Hall’s new appointment. The conversation followed yesterday’s blog post breaking down Tony Hall’s email to BBC staff.

Julia’s Fitness Blog was featured in our Media Updates. Freelance journalist and fitness professional Julia Buckley talked to Cision about her upcoming book, favourite blogs and how PRs should work with her. You can follow ...

It is the BBC’s new director-general’s first day on the job and he has set out his vision of the corporation in a company-wide email. With the subject ‘The BBC’s best days lie ahead of ...

Mummy’s Little Monkey will be featured in this week’s Media Updates. Author Jacqui Paterson talked to Cision about blog disclosure, building relationships and PR fails. Why should people read your blog?Because, hopefully, it will make them ...

Hungry Healthy Happy will be featured in this week’s Media Updates. Author Dannii Martin talked to Cision about food, loving guest posts and building relationships with PRs. Why should people read your blog? Hungry Healthy ...

Mellow Mummy is featured in this week’s Media Updates. Author Emma Button talked to Cision about Google+, guest posts from brands and the clarity of PR. Why should people read Mellow Mummy?  For a no-nonsense, ...

George Osborne has delivered his Budget for 2013. As this is one of the biggest news stories of any year, it was unsurprisingly trending across social media platforms. What was the conversation focusing on? Using ...

Caspar de Bono, managing director, B2B at the Financial Times, spoke to Cision about the FT’s digital approach and using readership data to become customer centric. The most striking part of the approach is how ...