suggest not all employers are treating their interns fairly. Cathy Wallace examines the evidence...and selling in press releases to national and local media and writing news stories for the university ...
social media survey targeted at students.'
With this kind of training and experience under his belt, Rowe will be an extremely attractive proposition for a PR agency or in-house team, and his annual ...
21 Oct 2010
| by Alec Mattinson
, as the media and PR industries round on the recommendations....to crack down on media leaks around price-sensitive information and implement formal changes.
On 11 ...
response to the perceived problem'.
The FSA pointed out its suggestions - that all contact with media ...
't ring.'
But one senior in-house source at an investment bank was relatively relaxed about the FSA ...
Media coverage of famine and disasters in the developing world is deterring young people from...was launched by the International Broadcasting Trust in partnership with international development charity Plan ...
sense of disengagement from mainstream media .
In the YouGov poll of 1,500 young people, which formed the basis of the report, negative imagery of famine and disasters were identified as dominating the media ...
04 Nov 2009
| by Gareth Davies
Brands need to take a longer-term view when analysing their impact in the social media space....The number of social media campaigns has increased dramatically as more and more brands realise the positive impact social media can have on customer loyalty and brand preference. As a direct result, many monitoring and sentiment analysis tools have come to market. Each different tool offers agencies and in-house ...
Having clear guidelines in place to outline how employees use social media can protect companies...Social media may have democratised the web but they have also presented organisations with a new ...
these organisations are taking the wrong approach.
Brown, like many other digital and social media professionals, believes that these steps are unnecessary if companies create an effective social media policy for staff ...
16 Dec 2010
| by David Woods
PR professionals have been warned to change the way they use Twitter and other social media...The OFT this week attacked a commercial blogging network, Handpicked Media , after it breached rules governing unfair trading by not disclosing which posts were sponsored. It is the first time ...
by the rule change. Diffusion MD Daljit Bhurji said: 'A lot of in-house PR and traditional agencies have ...
17 Mar 2010
| by Peter Hay
Facebook is in danger of becoming a lightning rod for social media criticism, digital marketing...in media land. From an insider's point of view, it has racked up faults, failures and mistakes, becoming ...
of reputation management at social media agency Headstream, said Facebook needed to keep a close eye on the repercussions of the story across the social media landscape before considering its next move. He said ...
17 Jun 2010
| by Alec Mattinson
Oil firm's media handling of the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico continues to come under fire....and public relations no longer fit well together', while numerous other media outlets have expanded on the firm's 'PR disaster'. Clarence Mitchell, Lewis PR director, media strategy and public affairs, argues ...
not intend Hayward to be the media face of the issue for so long, but that it failed to predict how long ...
The healthcare PR industry is overlooking traditional media outlets in the rush to improve online...communications industry that it cannot use social media in campaigns because of the strict guidelines governing ...
skills. Traditional media should still be the mainstay of a public campaign.' She claimed that many ...
. There is a growing conservatism of losing control when using traditional media, but the lack of control ...
19 May 2010
| by Peter Hay
The social media phenomenon rolled out its beta testing stage last week. It offered selected brands the opportunity to exclusively test the new features, which include verified accounts ...
that companies will staff these channels.' Paul Armstrong, social media director, Kindred argued the new ...