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What the financial crisis told us was that no matter how powerful a global commercial bank appears to be, it is nothing if public confidence evaporates. This was something earlier generations understood well but we had forgotten it because until three years ago it had not been an issue in our lifetime....
On Tuesday, News International executives appeared before the DCMS select committee. This followed a fraught week where the crisis accelerated and where barely a day went by without a fresh resignation.
It is difficult to analyse 'hackgate' because the story moves at such a pace. As I write Rupert and James Murdoch, and Rebekah Brooks, are preparing to be grilled by a Parliamentary select committee.
The mass circulation News of the World was felled by a newspaper with less than a tenth of its readership. Had it not died, allegedly of shame, it is a fair bet that the Sunday red top would have been selling millions for years ahead.
The 2011 PR Census, a joint PRWeek and PRCA research project, published this week, is the biggest and most thorough study of the British PR industry that has been commissioned for at least six years, and possibly ever.
The News International scandal is moving so fast that truly appalling allegations are springing up by the minute and being overtaken almost in the time it takes to post a blog online.
The London 2012 comms team looks increasingly unlikely to win medals as the roll-out of tickets continues. Olympic deniers are now being joined in decrying the allocation and sales procedure by those who believe the Games, at 10bn, represent value for UK plc. Communicators face three core challenges...
If you haven't already watched Ed Miliband's hilarious 'interview' with ITV's Damon Green on YouTube, it is well worth a view. It lays bare this country's 'sound bite' political culture. It also illustrates the challenges for those working in politics, journalism or PR.
Last week, Europe resurfaced as a point of discussion within the Conservative Party. The revelation that the EU Commission wants an inflation-busting budget increase, combined with the ongoing eurozone crisis, made this unavoidable. A group of 2010 intake MPs, myself included, also started to cautiously...
It is sometimes said that modern society has lost the ability to debate complex issues.
