Hands up who entered the Front Page of the Year category at this year’s EDF Energy London and the South of England Media Awards?
The silence is deafening, and no surprise, either: the judging panel decided not to shortlist any entries, saying that what came before them showed “a lack of originality”. Click here for more.
Blade is known as a peripatetic old cove whose interests span PR, law, travel and literature as much as less obvious pursuits such as surfing, poker and boxing. Wearing his literary hat, and in the hope that its organisers won’t mind a bit of free PR, Blade commends the inaugural Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival, which [...]
Here’s an interesting snippet from Hold the Front Page on Mr Justice Eady’s recent ruling to the effect that Google is not, in libel law terms, a publisher. Taking into account the fact that Google “has no control over which search terms are entered by users and cannot effectively block particular searches without also disabling [...]
Poor old Tesco law. Its failure to secure anything resembling positive PR sees critics lining up to shoot it down faster than the supermarket giant can open new stores. In commiseration, we offer Eight Reasons To Love Tesco Law.
1. It’ll Be Cheap.
Tesco hasn’t got where it is today by charging exorbitant prices for cans of [...]
A couple of weeks ago the Times reported on moves to make surfers subject to the Merchant Shipping Act 1995. Not just surfers, in fact, but all water users. Apparently the Department of Transport wants everyone to be more accountable for maritime mishaps. It seems to believe that treating surfers, kayakers and bobyboarders as ship-owners [...]
Southampton FC score a PR own goal
Is Google Street View a good thing?
Skype: coming to a courtroom near you?
Released almost a year ago, Spada’s groundbreaking research report, British Professions Today, is available for free download
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.