{"id":37896,"date":"2013-08-01T14:13:19","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T13:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/?p=37896"},"modified":"2013-08-01T14:13:19","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T14:13:19","slug":"weekly-comms-news-round-up-04082013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/weekly-comms-news-round-up-04082013\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Comms News Round Up 01\/08\/2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Comms-News-Latest1\"It’s first day of August which also means the first day of my holiday. Before I fly out to Malta, I want to give you my weekly selection of comms news stories curated via @CisionUK<\/span><\/a>. The next edition will be out in two weeks time. Enjoy!<\/span> <\/strong>
<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

Bauer buys Absolute Radio for \u00a322m<\/a>\u00a0by @cg_williams<\/span><\/a>\u00a0 via The Telegraph<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong>
Bauer Media, the group behind the Magic and Kiss radio stations, has bought Absolute Radio in a deal understood to be worth nearly \u00a322m. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Subject to regulatory approval, it ends protracted negotiations with Times of India, which put Absolute Radio up for sale in 2011. The sale represents a heavy loss of value. The national rock station was last sold by STV to Times of India for more than \u00a353m in 2008, when it was known as Virgin Radio.<\/p>\n

Twitter UK Head Responds to Abuse Report Concerns<\/span><\/a><\/span> by @jonrussell<\/span><\/a> via <\/span>The Next Web<\/a>
<\/a><\/span><\/strong>The head of Twitter\u2019s business in the UK has responded to concerns that the service is not doing enough to help users report abuse, after a UK-based equal rights campaigner received repeated rape threats this week.<\/span>
<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Appearing to respond to a petition that says Twitter\u2019s \u201ccurrent reporting system is below required standards,\u201d\u00a0Twitter UK General Manager\u00a0Tony Wang said in a series of tweets that the company \u201ctake(s) online abuse seriously\u201d and will \u201csuspend accounts that, once reported to us, are found to be in breach of our rules.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mysterious Instagram Fruit Hack Returns <\/span><\/a>by @MartinSFP<\/span><\/a> via <\/span>The Next Web<\/a>
<\/a><\/span><\/strong>An Instagram hack that posts pictures of fruit to users\u2019 timelines has returned. We last saw the issue back in June. Once again, the images \u2013 often of fruit but sometimes (<\/span>as The Verge notes<\/a>) of smoothies \u2013 are accompanied by text suggesting that the user is trying a new diet and encouraging others to follow a link that has been inserted into their bio. There are numerous reports of the hack on Twitter, mainly from four hours ago at the time of writing.<\/span>
<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

WeChat, China’s Facebook, is Going Global<\/span><\/a><\/span> by @jonrussell<\/span><\/a> via <\/span>The Next Web<\/a>
<\/a><\/span><\/strong>The growth of <\/span>WeChat<\/a>, a mobile messaging client run by Internet giant Tencent, has revolutionized the way the average smartphone owner in China communicates with friends, family and even strangers.<\/span>
<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

In the past we\u2019ve mused over whether Facebook could comply with censors in China \u2014 it is among a number of Western services blocked by the Chinese government; any unblocking would be contingent upon it agreeing to censor content, the same issue would apply if it acquired a firm there \u2014 or whether the culture of Weibo, China\u2019s equivalent of Twitter which has beaten out domestic Facebook clones, means there is little demand for a Facebook-like user experience \u2014 but Tencent\u2019s success with WeChat represents an even greater question mark: if all these questions were answered, is there even room for Facebook?<\/p>\n

Viewpoint: Does public relations have a PR problem?<\/span><\/a><\/span> via The BBC News Magazine<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong>
The inaugural PR National Awareness Day reportedly hopes to improve the reputation of an industry that earns its corn trying to improve reputations. Long-serving public relations expert Benjamin Webb says it’s not an easy task.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is an irony that an industry all about the construction and manipulation of image might itself suffer from an image problem. But it does. My heart always sinks when I meet new people and the inevitable urban question pops out: “So what do you do for a living?”<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s first day of August which also means the first day of my holiday. Before I fly out to Malta, I want to give you my weekly selection of comms news stories curated via @CisionUK. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":320,"featured_media":36981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4371,5741],"tags":[77,104,1139,4126,4372,4769,4771],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37896"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}