This week, the biggest stories from the web feature three British stars (Rowling, Sugar and Rooney), and one British pastime (talking about the weather). Using Cision Social Media, we can reveal which story received the ...

In a week that has been dominated by sport, we look at the top stories being discussed online and see which one has come out on top. Using Cision Social Media, we can see how ...

We asked Fleet Street Fox for her take on the current state of PR and media relations. Boy, did we get it.  Public relations types are always quick to sniff which way the wind is ...

With print circulation dwindling, and blogs cementing their place within the media landscape, are women’s media publishers beginning to realise the potential of digital? Alice Revel explores what this means for PRs.  What’s your first ...

David Dinsmore has been appointed editor of The Sun. The surprise move will see him replace Dominic Mohan, who will take up a senior role advising News Corp chief executive Robert Thomson. Dominic has been ...

Philip Sheldrake’s latest book Attenzi – a social business story has turned the concept of a business book on its head. Instead of instructional advice and inspirational sound bites, Philip has opted to tell the ...

Last night Cision attended the 12th annual AOP Digital Publishing Awards.  If you are involved in the online publishing industry in any way, you were there, joining in the celebration of ‘experimentation and creativity’ that ...

SubScribe is featured in this week’s Media Updates. Author Liz Gerard spoke to Cision about the media, newspapers and working with PRs. Why should people read your blog?I’ve had a lifetime’s experience in newspapers and ...

Tim Dowling wrote a piece in the Saturday Guardian about reputation management in online search results. Everyone knows the first page of Google is the one that matters and for some companies making sure that ...

We spend a lot of time talking to journalists, editors and bloggers about what PRs should and shouldn’t do. Our interviews often produce the same sort of answers to the question: ‘What do PRs do ...

Yahoo has bought blogging giant Tumblr for a reported $1.1bn. In her biggest acquisition since taking over, Yahoo’s chief executive Marissa Mayer has promised ‘not to screw it up’. The internet seems divided on what ...

Sir Alex Ferguson announced his retirement this morning after 26 years as manager of Manchester United. The news followed speculation and rumour which culminated last night in a series of articles across news sites. It ...

According to CisionPoint’s Media Database 35% of editors at national daily newspapers are female. Of the 12 dailies, the Guardian and the Daily Express have the smallest gender gap, with 40% and 42% female editors ...

Journalism.co.uk’s news:rewired event had 11 digital media sessions and 35 speakers. Location information became an overarching theme as news organisations revealed how they use geotagging and audience data for digital stories. Vadim Lavrusik, journalism programme ...

In light of this week’s developments in the ongoing case between Meltwater (supported by the PRCA) and the Newspaper Licensing Agency (NLA), we thought it would be helpful to clarify just what’s happening and what ...

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 ...

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 ...