Futures: PR and BP
Two of my colleagues have been more productive than I have recently. Edelman’s UK CEO Robert Phillips has written this chapter for a new book on Trust and Morality in PR Journalism and Communications....
View ArticleThat BBC settlement…
I’ve been asked for my view – so here are the headlines: What’s good - Agreed funding for at least 6 years Avoids a protracted and toxic debate on funding Avoided the confusion over purpose and...
View ArticleRhetoric and facts
An interesting week to visit the US with some historic mid-term elections producing the biggest vote against a sitting President for more than 70 years. There’s been plenty of analysis of the results...
View ArticleThe State of American Journalism
Alan Mutter – a former newspaper executive,Silicon Valley CEO and academic at Berkeley Journalism School has renewed the call for american journalism to abandon any pretence at objectivity. “It’s time...
View ArticleAre Foreign Correspondents Redundant?
The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford is publishing a study I’ve written on the future of International News. Downloads or purchasable here. Here’s the introduction: Foreign news...
View ArticleTrust
The Economist ran an interesting piece last week on how Britain may be uniquely cynical about politics. It reminded me of the Sir Peter Parker quote that too much of modern politics is self interest...
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Chinese diplomacy
There’s been much discussion and speculation about the visit of China’s leader, President Hu Jintao to Washington this week. Just what was discussed in his talks with Barack Obama in the White House? I...
View ArticlePrivacy and Prurience
The UK media clan are busy picking apart the issues around so-called “Super-injunctions” and privacy – particularly the lack of a UK Privacy law. Much of this has centred on the revelation by my former...
View ArticleThe season of speeches
The political conference season is upon us – and a season of political speeches. It’s not my role to provide political analysis (you’ll be relieved to hear) but for anyone who has a public message to...
View ArticleDigital Disruption of Power
I recently chaired a discussion at Chatham House, the international affairs think tank, on how digitization is revolutionising our world. It started with an interview with Heather Brooke, the...
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