As the dust settles in Liverpool, Stuart Thomson, Head of Public Affairs at Bircham Dyson Bell, gives a round up of the highs, lows and lessons to be learnt from the Labour Party conference.  Jeremy ...

The lines between journalism and PR have always been blurred. Both industries feed from each other and have similar objectives of wanting to share information with a given public. There is also the historic and ...

The lobbying industry is going through some changes at the moment. The referendum result created a level of uncertainty which initially left lobbyists anxious, and firms are having to quickly come to terms with not ...

Social media dictates that conversations between brands and the public happen in real time. God forbid that a slight customer niggle aired on Twitter or Facebook could create the sparks that burns a brands ambitions ...

Having gained a reputation as an inspirational speaker and having established herself as one of the most well respected figures in PR, Sarah Pinch is a trail blazer. As the managing director of Pinch Point ...

Pokemon Go is so last month. Even before the game was launched in major economies the media was reporting its decline. It was always going to be a fad but as fads go, this one ...

Back in June we published a spotlight with PR guru Sarah Hall and now by popular demand, Sarah will be joining us for our brand new webinar.  Drawing on her experience as the MD of Sarah Hall ...

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 ...