News that the oft-derided Press Complaints Commission has, for once, acted with unflinching decisiveness in upbraiding The Spectator’s notorious Rod Liddle post (“the overwhelming majority of street crime, knife crime, gun crime, robbery and crimes of sexual violence in London is carried out by young men from the African-Caribbean community”, opined the lovely, [...]
Berets off to Todd Defren at the consistently estimable PR-Squared for an insightful appraisal of the Stella Artois ‘Jacques d’Azur’ ad campaign.
Defren’s comments, about the campaign’s evidently troublesome engagement with social media (an inadequate Facebook page, oodles of annoying Twitter spam), are welcome. But pity poor, virtuous Stella. With PR like this, even a million [...]
With thanks, as often in matters American, to Legal Blog Watch, we are intrigued by Big Debt, Small Law, a website from across the pond whose strapline says it all (well, not quite, but anyway): ‘Dirt Poor Lawyers in a Filthy Rich Town’.
LBW regular Bruce Carton sees Big Debt, Small Law as part of “a [...]
And so farewell, then, free online content from the Times and Sunday Times.
From June,
You will be no more.
There will be a wall in the way.
A paywall, for one and all, provided they’ve got a couple of quid.
Something has to be done, for these are perilous times.
But is a paywall the answer?
My friend Arthur says that [...]
We learn from Legal Blog Watch of a New York Times article about Mardi Gras Indians who have decided “they’re tired of finding images of themselves, clad in their traditional elaborate outfits, on calendars, posters, coffee mugs and other assorted tchotchkes [What is a 'tchotchke'? Ed.], without getting any cash.”
In other words, [...]
Surfing and the favelas: how they’re connected
All OK for Desmond and Five
Heading for an airport tonight? Your experience may be different in future…
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 good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
Πλάτων, Greek philosopher.