PR Dilemmas

PR Dilemmas

Rethinking PR for robust post-woke communication

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Dec 12

Time to redebate sustainable development

Jonathan Porritt's, Britain's leading environmental campaigner, speech to the Royal Society in London this week is
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Dec 03

England never stood a chance with FIFA. Good.

Britain's David Cameron just spent three days schmoozing the unschmoozable FIFA bigwigs. But did he and Prince William
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Nov 24

"Deadly Spin" is mere spin

What comes across from Wendell Potter's book is his distaste for his former employers' agenda. That exposes something that has long troubled me; too many PRs share the media's and the protesters' assumptions and criticisms of society.
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Nov 15

PS essay in "A Sorry State" (it's a book)

My essay on corporate image building forms part of a new book from The New Culture Form, A Sorry State:
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Oct 06

Coca-Cola's sponsorship is all about them

Unless Coca-Cola was driven by cynicism, I can't see why a "families values" brand should even contemplate selecting Wayne Rooney as the embodiment of its reputation.
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Sep 12

Starbucks' PR tweets stink

I've just laughed out loud at Lucy Kellaway's Weekend FT story about Twitter, and Starbucks'
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Sep 07

New PR agency redefines celeb PR

Media Release: Rough Diamond PR launched today. Slogan: "We're as mean as the media...." . We'
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Sep 06

It's the politics, stupid!

Outside of celebrity gossip, sport reports and puff pieces, most news dissemination around the world is fundamentally political. Newspapers are
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Sep 02

Mssrs Blair and Hague, and sex and risk and leadership...

Tony Blair's memoirs are the most confessional in years from a world leader. The devout Catholic convert explains
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Aug 23

"UN exonerates Shell in Niger Delta"

According to The Guardian's John Vidal, the UN is set to report that Shell is responsible for just
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Aug 19

Musing on PR, privacy & confidence - part 2

What are we PRs to do with the troublesome issue of privacy? We certainly have an interest in leading this
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Aug 19

Musing on PR, privacy and confidence - part 1

Google's Eric Schmidt says we should be able to reinvent our identity at will. That's daft.
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