At newsrewired yesterday (19 July), Nic Newman from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism presented new research on ‘Brand attribution when accessing news from distributed environments’. The news for most publishers is not ...

Workplace, Facebook’s newest enterprise product, is a promising tool for the marketing communications industry. Here Ketchum’s Melissa Barry writes for #FuturePRoof on the benefits of the system.  Workplace by Facebook has the ability to fundamentally ...

Want to deflect a little social media heat away from your brand? How about letting a smart, polite and socially-savvy teenager run your Twitter account for the day? That’s exactly what embattled train operator Southern ...

A group of Facebook content moderators, responsible for removing terrorist-related content from the social network have had their safety compromised after a technical glitch exposed their personal details to terrorist sympathisers and supporters. The bug ...

Simon Ragoonanan decided to leave his career as a TV producer to become a stay at home dad to his 6-month-old daughter in 2012. Simon created the blog, Man Vs Pink to document his experience ...

Diary of the Dad was created in 2010 by Tom Briggs to document his children Xander, Dylan, and toddler Amelie as they grow up and learn new things. Diary of the Dad covers the challenges ...

The DADventurer was created in 2014 by stay-at-home dad Dave as a place to share his experiences of fatherhood. Since its conception, the blog has chronicled Dave and his wife’s journey through pregnancy, birth, and raising ...

Moving up to first place is John Adams, the father behind Dad Blog UK, which he launched after deciding to leave his career in communications to become a stay at home dad in 2011. Winner ...

Facebook, along with the wider social web, has faced much criticism in recent years for the spreading of “fake news”. Fake news is something that the social network has stated that it is committed to fight. ...

It’s always the case with election campaigns that the parties’ plans will be disrupted by events outside of their control. This weekend, for example, the opposition parties have been using the cyber-attack which affected the ...

Media reports suggest that anti-EU groups used highly sophisticated and largely unregulated “dark” political advertising to target specific groups of people in the run up to the Brexit vote. It is understood that pro Leave groups ...

As the general election gets underway, we’ve compiled all the news, policy announcements, stakeholder reaction and social media analysis to keep you up to date. Arriving in your inbox on Monday, you’ll have a round-up ...

Facebook’s algorithms are used to target “insecure” children as young as 14 and may be used to sell highly targeted advertising according to a recent report in The Australian. According to the report, journalists have ...

Online memes are those funny images circulated on social media often with a humorous comment that changes the context of the image and pokes fun at a particular event, individual or ideal. But could online ...

It all seemed to be going so well for Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg (aka Pewdiepie), with more than 15 billion video views, 54 million+ subscribers and deals with the Disney organisation, the 27-year-old from Sweden ...

Twitter is set to drop its default egg avatar in an attempt to encourage users to upload their own images and help fight the association the social network has with online abuse and trolling. The ...

The Metropolitan Police’s communications chief, Martin Fewell, has spoken out about an image on the front page of The Times newspaper showing PC Keith Palmer as he lay dying following the recent Westminster terror attacks. Fewell, ...

The Daily Mail’s ‘legs-it’ front page has amassed over 300 complaints ‘’and counting’’, the Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso) has confirmed. The focus on Theresa May and Nicola Sturgeon’s legs during a meeting to discuss ...

Snapchat has signed a deal with MGM to develop original TV programming for the social network. The partnership follows similar deals with television networks including NBC, ESPN and the BBC. According to media reports, standalone ...

Alfred Joyner is the head of video at IBT Media, a fast growing global digital news organisation and parent company of the International Business Times & Newsweek. In this spotlight interview, Alfred explains how IBT Media ...