Keith Vaz is no stranger to scandal: known as the Teflon MP by his colleagues, he’s perhaps one of the better placed parliamentarians to handle a PR crisis. Vaz has been accused of pushing through ...

Online political news site the Canary experienced a wave of growth in July which saw it overtake the Economist and Private Eye in terms of total page views. The left-wing site, which bills itself as ...

I’m not sure if Jeremy Corbyn familiarised himself with Virgin Trains online privacy policy before boarding his train to Newcastle last week. If he had, he should have taken particular notice of the statement (amongst others ...

The much delayed Childhood Obesity Strategy was published by the Government last Thursday. While it included reaffirmed commitments to measures like the sugar tax, there was disappointment from campaign groups that it excluded controls on ...

The EU referendum and Donald Trump’s unique brand of self-promotion have raised questions about the role of the press when it comes to reporting highly-spun information from politicians. As emotion becomes the driving force in ...

UK consumer magazines saw an average drop in circulation of 5.3% in the first half of the year according to ABC figures. Big name glossy titles, including Now (-21.8%), Heat (-22.3%) and Reader’s Digest (-32.1%) saw ...

Back in the halcyon days of fully-staffed newsrooms, writing headlines was not a task trusted to lowly journalists. It took many years of sub-editing experience to learn the craft. Headlines were just too important to ...

Politicians using Twitter to talk, debate and sometimes argue with the public may seem normal now, but this type of interaction is something which would have been hard to imagine fifteen years ago. Twitter is ...

In the UK, public affairs is an established practice. The aim is to influence decision makers, play a role in the decision making process and know the risk and regulation affecting your industry. How does ...

Back in the 1960s former Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson famously said, “a week is a long time in politics”, and almost a century before that, the Liberal politician Joseph Chamberlain said, “in politics, there ...

In a move that could be seen as controversial, PR Week has named Leave as its campaign of the month. But whether you agree with the politics or not, Leave did exactly what a political ...

What better way to spend the school summer holidays than glued to a screen and hunting down digital critters in this year’s must download smartphone game. But Pokemon Go is no Angry Birds or Candy ...

It should come as no surprise that the publishers of The Economist are good with figures. Despite the continued decline in print advertising revenues, the magazine recently announced an upturn in their financial fortunes, with ...

It was assumed that Theresa May would lead with a similar cabinet to her predecessor, so she shocked everyone this week when she dismantled, rather than reshuffled, the Conservative team. Here are the three changes which made ...

A lot has changed in Britain in the last two weeks. Since the referendum we’ve had resignations from the leaders of two political parties, a leadership challenge launched against Jeremy Corbyn, and now a new Prime ...

The Advertising Standards Authority, the UK’s independent regulator for advertising across all media, received 374 complaints about “misleading, inaccurate and discriminatory” campaigns in the run up to the recent EU Referendum. Campaigns including the Leave campaign’s ...

This morning, the Women in Public Affairs Network met for a breakfast event with Stephanie Lvovich, Global Public Affairs Chair at Edelman and Anji Hunter, Senior Adviser at Edelman. They discussed the ups and downs ...

As PR professionals, we are duty bound to make announcements that don’t cast the best light on the organisations we work for. Let’s face it, whether its profit warnings, factory closures or redundancies – bad ...

The referendum is over, and whatever your opinion of the outcome, there are few people who would say that the campaign has been a victory for informed debate. Both the Leave and Remain campaigns came ...

Press Gazette’s ‘Brexitometer tracker chart’, which adds up the total number of front pages which favoured Remain versus Leave throughout the referendum, showed an overwhelming tendency towards Leave in the UK press. After much talk ...