Google’s controversial “Street View” service service launched yesterday, creating an immediate challenge for a creative legal PR. We assume the internet giant has one, and that he or she is already working out how to counter the negative aspects of Google’s service, which provides panoramic street-level images of 25 cities.
Google says that it will obscure [...]
Woe is ITV in many ways just now, but especially in Tyne Tees, where its newsroom is at the centre of a bullying scandal that has cost the company about £1m. ITV would appear to be in urgent need of an experienced PR, not to mention some cast-iron media, legal and professional training.
The Guardian has [...]
Blade is struck by this story from All Media Scotland on the decision by Strathclyde University to drop shorthand from its BA in Creative Writing and Journalism. It’s not, though, shorthand which catches Blade’s eye, but a throwaway line about another “pesky old-school skill” – media law.
Apparently, if Blade is reading between the lines correctly, [...]
Blade enjoys the musings of former Conservative politician turned writer and journalist Matthew Parris. He has a nice, wry style, an easy wit and an admirably humane stance on life. It is a shame, therefore, to note that this column, from The Times of December 2007, sparked a record number of complaints to the ever-snarling [...]
According to this story from Wealth Briefing, RBS has confirmed that it is sell its retail and commercial assets in Singapore, while reaffirming its commitment to global wealth management via RBS Coutts, the Zurich-based international arm of its private banking operation.
The CEO of RBS Coutts tells Wealth Briefing that, despite everything, including disgraced banker (copyright [...]
Southampton FC score a PR own goal
Is Google Street View a good thing?
Skype: coming to a courtroom near you?
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In this article, Gavin Ingham Brooke and Rohit Grover of Spada examine the importance of marketing and PR in a downturn.
In the latest of our series of white papers, Spada Research examines trends in environmental reporting.
A cricket ground is a flat piece of earth with some buildings around it.
Richie Benaud, 1930 – present, cricket player and commentator.