Media Relations: 2 Minutes with... Douglas Bell, Editor, FatController
09 Sep 2005
Fat Controller has just gone national, but student mags come and go all the time, don't they?
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Ex-News of the World and Hello! editor-in-chief Phil Hall has launched a PR agency on the back of contracts with high-profile clients such as Heather Mills McCartney, Hat Trick Productions and West Ham United FC.
Fat Controller has just gone national, but student mags come and go all the time, don't they?
Combative rhetoric bloomed in the budding digital download arena last week, as two music retail giants made their first foray into the market.
The Guardian will have a new daily science page as part of next week's relaunch in 'Berliner' format - a size between tabloid and broadsheet. There will also be a new G3 supplement, Technology Guardian, on Thursdays, with the Friday Review section renamed Film and Music. The paper's editor is Alan Rusbridger.
As the major channels unveil their autumn schedules to tackle declining audience share, Sarah Robertson investigates some of the tactics deployed by broadcasters to get their programmes talked about.
He used to spend his working days hauling reporters out of jail, exposing lying ministers, taking on Richard Desmond and popping around to No 10 for cups of tea. But in late April, former News of the World editor Phil Hall started a PR agency in the hope of a less madcap working environment.
A recent report suggests a trust crisis between in-house PROs and journalists. Stephen Hoare quizzes both camps to find out what is wrong.
Before it hits the shops on 22 September, tell us where the idea for PokerPlayer came from.
Phoney war or 'one of the most aggressively personal takeover bid battles in recent years' (Sunday Times, 28 August)? Sir Gerry Robinson's intended bid for Rentokil woke up the August City pages, but many were sceptical about the timing, credibility and value of it.
Competition between the breakfast TV shows is fierce, so PROs must follow the news agenda carefully and prepare a complete package to appeal to producers. Alex Black examines the opportunities for coverage.