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Facebook riot calls earn men four-year jail terms amid sentencing outcry

Published on August 17, 2011 · 8:32 am UK · 1 comment

in Communication, Mainstream Media, Social Media, Social Networks, Society, Trends, Web

Sentences handed out in Chester as lawyers and civil rights groups express alarm about ‘disproportionate’ punishments

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NLA licensing creates FUD says Meltwater

Published on July 29, 2011 · 1:23 pm UK · 0 comments

in Business, Communication, Law, Mainstream Media, Online Media, Public Relations, Reputation, Society, Web

The idea of having to pay to share links to online content published by the mainstream media is one that has stimulated much debate in the UK in recent months. Not only that, it’s generated strong opposition in the PR community, and has been to court. It’s also been the subject of an awareness-raising campaign [...]

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NLA wins latest move in ‘pay for clicks’ battle

Published on July 28, 2011 · 8:26 am UK · 1 comment

in Business, Communication, Law, Mainstream Media, Online Media, Public Relations, Society, Trends, Web

Yesterday, the Court of Appeal in London ruled in favour of the Newspaper Licensing Agency (NLA) in a long-running legal battle over licensing of links to content published in the mainstream media. The latest ruling upheld an earlier court decision that anyone copying and supplying UK newspaper web content, or links to that content, to [...]

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Can they handle the truth?

Published on July 19, 2011 · 8:22 am UK · 3 comments

in Business, Communication, Ethics, Law, Mainstream Media, Politics, Public Relations, Reputation, Society

Today might be a momentous one in the unfolding drama that embraces News Corporation, phone hacking by journalists, police bribery, corruption and who knows what else as Rupert Murdoch and son James face a Parliamentary select committee investigating events that make up this scandal. Expectations look to be very high indeed that the Murdochs and [...]

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Seeing PR sense behind latest News International events

Published on July 15, 2011 · 11:52 am UK · 1 comment

in Business, Communication, Ethics, Investor Relations, Mainstream Media, Politics, Public Relations, Reputation, Social Media, Society, Web

The announcement this morning that News International CEO Rebekah Brooks had resigned provoked near-universal applause on Twitter, from what I could see in my content stream. It was also reported in mainstream media around the world, illustrating quite clearly how significant this is beyond the UK. This and related events today look like the result [...]

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Making some drama from the NOTW crisis

Published on July 13, 2011 · 6:21 pm UK · 2 comments

in Business, Communication, Mainstream Media, Politics, Public Relations, Reputation, Social Media, Society, Twitter, Web

Last week, the focus was on the News of The World and phone hacking, culminating in the newspaper’s final edition on Sunday July 10. This week, attention has shifted dramatically as events have moved up level by level to embrace the ultimate owner of the British newspaper, News Corporation, in a genuine crisis that could [...]

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A tipping point sets a milestone for mainstream media evolution

Published on July 10, 2011 · 6:41 pm UK · 2 comments

in Business, Communication, Ethics, Journalism, Mainstream Media, Politics, Public Relations, Reputation, Social Media, Society, Web

I’ve been reading through the News of The World today. It’s the first time I’ve ever bought this newspaper – and the last time, too, as this was its last edition. The closure that concludes 168 years of newspaper publishing is a sorry end to a popular tabloid that consistently served up the type of [...]

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On the death of a mainstream medium

Published on July 7, 2011 · 6:06 pm UK · 4 comments

in Business, Communication, Employee Communication, Journalism, Mainstream Media, Politics, Public Relations, Reputation, Society, Web, Workplace

It’s an astonishing end to a newspaper that published its first edition in 1843 and grew to become the biggest-circulation English-language weekly newspaper in the world, with a readership averaging close to 7.5 million in 2010. That newspaper is the News of The World (NoTW). After 168 years of publishing, this Sunday, July 10, is [...]

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On board with The Huffington Post UK

Published on July 2, 2011 · 1:13 pm UK · 4 comments

in Business, Communication, Experiences, Mainstream Media, Online Media, Personal Development, Web

In a few days time, an event takes place that marks another evolutionary milestone for the mainstream media – the launch of The Huffington Post UK edition on July 6. The Huffington Post is a US news website and content aggregating blog founded in 2005 by Arianna Huffington and others. With origins as a liberal [...]

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Taking link licensing to a higher level

Published on June 29, 2011 · 9:52 am UK · 5 comments

in Business, Communication, Law, Mainstream Media, Public Relations, Society, Web

A new development in the ‘pay per click’ links licensing conflict in the UK is about to move things up a level, one designed to raise awareness among members of Parliament and which might influence the future of a system that has won little support in the public relations industry. To concisely re-cap: from early [...]

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