The London Press Club Awards yesterday afternoon marked the end of the 2012 narrative in the journalist awards cycle. Reuters’ Tom Bergin again won the business journalist award over Steve Hawkes and Laura Kuenssberg for his tax investigation (to add …
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The medium may have changed, but the message hasn’t
PR man hooks up with an ad man and kicks off a new agency isn’t anything out of the ordinary. Only in this case the event took place sixty years ago and the PR man in question still saunters into …
Leveson: the exhibition
Long after the detail of the Leveson Inquiry’s evidence is forgotten, it is likely that the imagery will linger in the imagination. The procession of celebs, politicos and media types through the witness box in the corner of a room …
BBC brings in more Fleet St talent
The appointment of the guardian’s deputy editor Ian Katz as the new editor of Newsnight marks the second time in a month that the BBC has recruited a senior newspaper hand after James Harding was announced as the next head …
Who’s got it, not who’s going to get it
When FTMoney was relaunched at the end of last year, the biggest change was that that the entrepreneur section got guillotined off the back. The problem was that those reading the front end money stories tended to be towards the …
PR – a leveraged bet on the value of the press?
It may have only appeared as a short column as part of Harriet Harman’s comments on press regulation in today’s Times, but the full story of the PRCA’s warning on the perils of press regulation is spared the sub’s pen …
Crossing the great divide
Time for a reverse ferret. The departure of James Harding from the Times did not mark the retreating of the tide for business journalists in positions of power, rather it was a necessary piece of restructuring to allow business journalists …
The rainbow media
There was general backslapping amongst the newspapers last week at a job well done over the speed with which they reacted to the announcement of Baroness Thatcher’s death and the comprehensive nature of their ensuing coverage. However, as Matthew Lynn’s …
PR joins the flock
The IPA’s Bellwether Report can now be taken seriously by the PR industry. The quarterly report tracks both the size of the marcomms cake and how that cake is cut up between the different disciplines. Until last autumn, PR was …
Desert island dailies
Like many of his colleague’s, Sky News’ Ed Conway has his background in newspapers and certainly appears to retain enough of an attachment to them to be concerned about their survival. Hence a post this week on his personal blog …
