In the week that time forgot, the media headlines may be few and far between but there are still gems in this festive period. From Christmas viewing figures to Prince Harry’s Today programme, here are ...

Our weekly round-up of the biggest stories from media, PR and comms including Twitter’s ban, lists of the year and a very funny video. Twitter suspends Britain First Twitter updated its policies around hate speech, which ...

Our weekly round-up of the biggest stories from media, PR and comms including the mother of all acquisitions, UCL’s white campus and the words, and terms, of 2017. 1. Disney to buy 21st Century Fox’s ...

Fran Unsworth has been appointed director of news and current affairs at the BBC. She will replace James Harding, who announced  his departure in October, at the beginning of 2018. Unsworth is a career BBC ...

Katharine Viner, editor-in-chief of Guardian News and Media, has revealed that the Guardian will be relaunched next year in tabloid format. Viner was speaking to Amol Rajan on BBC Radio 4’s The Media Show. From 15 ...

These week’s Five Things includes the biggest night of the blogging year, Trump’s tweets and Hopkins leaving the MailOnline.  1. The Vuelio Blog Awards Sure, they were last Friday but they were so epic that ...

In a memo to staff, Buzzfeed CEO Jonah Peretti has announced cuts to staff as part of a reorganisation of the business. Around 100 jobs will go at the firm, including losses from the UK ...

Another Budget has been and gone. This time, the Chancellor announced new funding for the NHS, reform of Universal Credit and the scrapping of Stamp Duty against the backdrop of very gloomy economic figures from ...

Marks & Spencer is launching its Christmas advert this evening during the Pride of Britain awards. The Paddington-fronted #LoveTheBear campaign, goes beyond just a 90-second TV spot, with in-store product tie-ins, charitable fundraising and cross-channel ...

‘Fake News’ is the Collins Dictionary word of the year for 2017. Defined by Collins as ‘false, often sensational, information disseminated under the guise of news reporting’, Fake News has taken the political world by ...

This big stories of the week from the world of PR, media and communications, including Snapchat’s warning, Apple’s hire, Piccadilly Circus, Radio 1’s listening stats and Facebook’s publisher experiment. 1. Snapchat’s first ASA warning Geordie ...

Emma Hill is the publisher of His & Hers Magazine and the recently launched accompanying His & Hers Magazine Blog. Launched in 2011, His & Hers Magazine is a lifestyle title in the North West ...

As the Conservative Party Conference comes to a close, Theresa May has been handed a P45, Boris Johnson is facing fresh calls to resign and Jacob Rees-Mogg has come face to face with protestors crashing ...

The Conservative Party Conference is now underway and the highlights so far include Chancellor Philip Hammond announcing an extra £300m of funding for rail infrastructure in the North, Environment Secretary Michael Gove announcing the Government ...

Taking a brief hiatus from our podcast (and reverting to old-fashioned reading), we present five things you shouldn’t have missed from the worlds of media, marketing and communications. 1. Labour Party Conference The Opposition party’s ...

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has released the advertising complaint figures from the first half of 2017. TV adverts drew the most complaints with 5,127 about 2,272 adverts; Online was a close second, with 4,062 ...

IMPRESS, the Royal Charter-backed press regulator, has banned its chief exectuive and three of its own board members from dealing with major news publishers, due to perceptions of bias against them. As reported in the ...

The Labour Party Conference is coming to a close for 2017, with a huge number of headlines generated from the four-day event. The Single Market was the key focus early on but has since been ...

Laura Kuenssberg, the BBC’s political editor, has been assigned security detail at the Labour Party conference after sustained online abuse. The BBC’s first female political editor has endured online abuse consistently since she was thrust ...

The #VuelioVoice podcast covering the major trending stories from the worlds of media, marketing and PR this week. Listen to Akeshia Clarke and Jake O’Neill discuss five things you shouldn’t have missed. This week the ...