Letter - Young journalists too often miss the facts
19 May 2006
Anthony Hilton's opinion that 'too few PROs are of use to journos' (5 May) is but one side of the
manage coverage of The Walker Report into private equity (PRWeek, 13 July 2007). Anthony Hilton, p11. ...
Anthony Hilton's opinion that 'too few PROs are of use to journos' (5 May) is but one side of the
which should give hope to other businesses that have their own mountains to climb. - Anthony Hilton ...
Newsdesk Media Group Founded 1997. Privately owned. Chairman Anthony Hilton; CEO Alan Spence ...
Privatised businesses have had two besetting sins down the years.
Every year, MORI polls financial journalists about their attitude to companies and plots the link between familiarity and favourability.
Reputational risk is widely recognised as one of the major threats faced by international businesses. It seems that no matter how careful a group may be, there will always be times when it gets into trouble.
It is a mantra of business that to achieve efficiency you need to simplify, standardise and automate. Complexity and variety require a high quality of employee - someone who has the knowledge and experience to apply judgement and initiative, whereas once things are standardised you can get by with lower-quality...
Although it in no way detracts from the horror of the events, the chances of being caught up in a terrorist attack are so tiny as to be impossible to measure. You are many times more likely to fall under a bus than be blown up on one.
At least last Thursday no one was crass enough to echo the notorious comment of Jo Moore, then press adviser to transport minister Stephen Byers, that 9/11 was a good day to bury bad news. But the terrorist outrage in London did have some interesting PR consequences - albeit they tended to be those...