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 ...

This morning’s live webinar will be available to download later this week. In the meantime, there were a few questions that we didn’t manage to squeeze in, the answers to which are below. Why do ...

With all three political parties claiming victory in the press regulation deal, it can be difficult to know what exactly is going on. The agreement focuses on a royal charter, which will see the creation ...

Though it seems there are very few things that manage to take Twitter by surprise, this week the new pope did just that. On Wednesday evening, Jorge Mario Bergoglio was revealed as the new pope ...

Seems like winter is back but so is Thursday and my weekly pick of comms news curated via @CisionUK. Using analytics to boost your social ROI by Matt Kates @ePrize via Econsultancy‘This presents a significant ...

The Media Blog is featured in this week’s Media Updates. Author Will Sturgeon spoke to Cision about the future of media, the beauty of blogs and the relevance of PR. Why should people read The ...

Don’t go Baking my Heart is featured in this week’s Media Updates. Author Lucy Netherton is a freelance food writer and here she talks about burgers, working with PRs and addictive reading. Why should people ...

As bloggers have become an increasingly popular target for PRs, it can sometimes be difficult to distinguish adverts from content. In the UK, critics accuse bloggers of failing to disclose the true nature of sponsored ...

No one likes to think about the worst case scenario, but have you considered how you’d react if your brands got hit with a horsemeat-scale disaster? Managing a crisis involves being prepared for questions from ...

With an online paywall protecting its content, can The Press Awards hauled in by The Times last night be seen as recognition of its business model as much as anything else? Scooping Newspaper of the ...

Time for another weekly round up of comms news curated via @CisionUK. Beginner’s Guide to Google AdSense for Publishers by @kleinja via distilled ‘The lines between paid and organic search are blurring while millions of ...