29 Nov 2006
| by David Quainton
Stuart Rose, CEO of a buoyant Marks & Spencer, was this week named the fourth PRCA Romeike Business Communicator of the Year. David Quainton examines how Rose has communicated the retailer's turnaround.
29 Nov 2006
| by Ian Hall
PR agencies located in the North-West are booming, but leading lights are concerned about recruitment difficulties in the region. Ian Hall reports from a roundtable event convened in Manchester last week.
29 Nov 2006
| by Robyn Lewis
Following the sale of Reader's Digest last month for £850m, Robyn Lewis asks its executive editor how PROs should target its two million UK readers.
29 Nov 2006
Since the first commercial website was launched in 1993 - by Digital Equipment Corporation, trivia fans - hardy coders and intrepid designers have striven for a better world. One in which we can find what we want, websites work and pages load properly.
29 Nov 2006
Before the Christmas party season addles our brains entirely, it's time to ask some serious questions about the future of ITV. Issues of ownership and the identity of its next chief executive have been diverting, but it's time to move on and deal with more fundamental matters.
29 Nov 2006
One of my very good friends from university, Simon, has allowed himself the luxury of a slight paunch just like mine. When we go out for a few beers we look like two relatively successful, 30-something professionals.
29 Nov 2006
| by Craig Smith, editor
The headline 'Online video eroding TV viewing' from the BBC News website generated sufficient immediate scepticism in me to interrupt my Monday morning commute-cum-news scan. A quick press and scroll of the Blackberry tracker wheel was enough to confirm my initial suspicion that this was in fact yet...
24 Nov 2006
| by by Ian Darby
Last week, as Ofcom announced restrictions on TV food advertising that could cost the broadcasting industry £39 millon a year, and BSkyB geared up for its £940 million move on ITV, a smaller announcement had already seeped out of the communications regulator regarding the radio industry.
You're probably toxic with too much junk-food thinking after Ofcom's ruling last week. But I make no apologies for adding to the overload by picking over the issues some more; no-one is in any doubt of the significance of the ruling for advertising freedoms.
22 Nov 2006
| by Alex Black
Madonna's adoption of a Malawian baby caused a media maelstrom across the globe. Alex Black assesses the fallout.