We learn from the Guardian that rugby legend Jonny Wilkinson is to guest-edit a special edition of free weekly magazine Sport for the start of the Six Nations rugby union tournament next week.
He follows in the footsteps of England cricketer Andrew Flintoff, who similarly edited a one-off Ashes edition of Sport.
We take nothing away from [...]
Left-field, but it is Friday – have a look at www.surfnation.co.uk for an amusing piece by Alex Wade about his battle to write for the Sunday Telegraph.
In the interests of objectivity and editorial balance, we should mention that Wade writes on this blog from time to time – and that he tipped us off about [...]
How will CAN Associates spin itself out of the disastrous PR flowing from the company’s recent handling of a Peter Andre interview?
CAN has been in the business of celebrity PR for some time, but the company finds itself on the wrong end of the Mirror’s 3.00am team after foisting a series of ludicrous demands on [...]
Talk to any London literary agent and two claims will soon be made. One, the non-fiction market is in a dire state, thanks mainly to the recession, and two, the ‘Misery Memoir’ has run its course. The reasons for the decline of the latter are many and varied, depending on which agent is doing the [...]
In the wake of Nicole Mamo’s experience of the dread contemporary phenomenon known to news editors as Political Correctness Gone Mad, the following ad now appears at all job centres in East Anglia:
Domestic cleaner required but only at your convenience. A variety of different shifts will be available, but only if you are desperate. Will [...]
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.
It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion.
Edmund Burke, from the Preface to Brissot’s Address.