Crisis and Communications
Just before he resigned, the CEO of Northern Ireland Water, Laurence McKenzie, was asked to reflect on what could have been done better in handling the crisis over Christmas where many thousands of...
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Chinese diplomacy
There’s been much discussion and speculation about the visit of China’s leader, President Hu Jintao to Washington this week. Just what was discussed in his talks with Barack Obama in the White House? I...
View ArticleEdelman Trust Barometer
Last week was a big week in the Edelman calender: the publication of our annual Trust Barometer. Our CEO Richard Edelman has written up the headlines and changes here. Among the many intriguing results...
View ArticleThe Daily..
The Daily – Rupert Murdoch’s new daily newspaper for the Apple iPad – launched in the US this week – not yet available in Europe. This YouTube demo gives a good flavour of it. The first two weeks are...
View ArticleMedia Literacy
By far the best book on journalism I read was “The Elements of Journalism” by Bill Kovach and Tom Rosentiel of the Project for Excellence in Journalism in the US – part of the Pew Center. When I ran...
View ArticlePrivacy and Prurience
The UK media clan are busy picking apart the issues around so-called “Super-injunctions” and privacy – particularly the lack of a UK Privacy law. Much of this has centred on the revelation by my former...
View ArticleThe season of speeches
The political conference season is upon us – and a season of political speeches. It’s not my role to provide political analysis (you’ll be relieved to hear) but for anyone who has a public message to...
View Articledigital partnerships
It’s been announced that Yahoo! are partnering with ABC News in the US to share stories and web video series. According to the Poynter website: ”Their sites will have editorial independence, but the...
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Drawing back the curtain on News’s Wizard of Oz
The freeing of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito by an Italian court this week revealed some awful gaffes by the media trying to rush to judgement. Numerous outlets, on hearing the word guilty...
View ArticleThe season of lists…
The end of the year is always the season of lists. So as a public service to both my readers I have picked out some of the best ones. First, Frederic Filloux, from his weekly newsletter, the Monday...
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