Saying sorry is in vogue. Everyone’s at it, and in many cases they weren’t even threatened with a libel action. Hell, some people have even started saying sorry when they haven’t done anything wrong. But is saying sorry always a good idea? Here’s a look at the inspiration – and PR consequences – of 10 [...]
The internet is charged with not being a force for good. Its accuser? Peter Preston, editor of the Guardian between 1975 and 1995. Preston is not a happy man. Not when it comes to the internet, anyway. ‘What has the internet ever done for us?’ he asks, and we can empathise when he castigates the [...]
Would the credit crunch have been averted if women ran the banks? Andy McSmith ponders this in the Independent, following hints by Harriet Harman that the Government might use equality legislation to force the appointment of more women managers in the financial sector. Early in his piece, he states, without apparent irony, that “women are [...]
It’s difficult to believe, given opinions such as Ray Snoddy’s telling us that the Independent will have disappeared within a year and the general sense of gloom surrounding the newspaper industry, but we are living in a “golden age of journalism”. Not convinced? Well, check out Huffington Post founder Ariana Huffington’s testimony on the future [...]
The thieves of today are no better than those of 15 years ago. Not even the darkest art of the darkest spin-meister can save them. They are lost, even to the most Machiavellian of PRs. That is Blade’s conclusion after a comparative analysis of two superb examples of criminal incompetence. In the red corner, we [...]
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Released almost a year ago, Spada’s groundbreaking research report, British Professions Today, is available for free download
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In the latest of our series of white papers, Spada Research examines trends in environmental reporting.
After a raft of phone-hacking admissions and allegations, we are no longer seen as the gruff but dependable watchdog. Neville Thurlbeck, formerly of the News of the World (part of his Damascene conversion; to be continued).