The media’s volatile relationship with failed blood test maker Theranos reminds us that journalists are trained to be suspicious of companies whose representatives are evasive, or which heavily restrict access. CEO…
Photo credit: Gage Skidmore Biden’s first press conference has attracted attention for being late, for his use of memory prompts and for continued questions over border controls. But a section…
Avoiding comment on politics or social issues used to be an orthodoxy of corporate communication. But in the past two years, speaking up has ceased to be the risk it was. In…
Tuesday’s headlines were written seconds into Dominic Cummings’ response to the first question at his Downing Street press conference. BBC political editor Laura Kuenessberg had just asked the government advisor…
https://youtu.be/Mh9kDPs41Bo Old Media has cemented its dominant position on Twitter, while finance firms have seen slower growth in followers over the past year according to our 2020 social media study.…
https://youtu.be/UH7-W1J5lSg A surge of followers on LinkedIn over the past year has given leading banks a louder voice than some big-name media companies on the platform. The results of our 2020…
Keir Starmer had no grand stage from which to make his acceptance speech after becoming British Labour party leader at the weekend. The speech itself was visually and rhetorically unspectacular and while Starmer’s…
Caution: If you’re in what the media might call a ‘high profile’ role in the City, take care with what you post on social media – especially pics showing off…
It’s hard to say what most damaging about the Financial Times interview in which Standard Chartered CEO Bill Winters complained about “immature investors” questioning the size of his company pension. First it…
Boris Johnson’s performance in Tuesday’s Conservative Leadership debate offered another glimpse into his tendency to dodge questions of substance. And it’s a reminder that it’s an absolute no-no to mimic the ‘smoke…