ONE of the world’s biggest advertising agencies is trying to sell its stake in a Zimbabwe company masterminding the re-election of President Robert Mugabe.
WPP, which owns a huge raft of global Public Relations companies including Burson-Marsteller, Cohn & Wolfe, GCI, Hill & Knowlton and Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide, has found itself in the embarrassing position [...]
Filed in: Corporate Social Responsibility (Sound behaviour)
TWO interesting developments in the Third Sector – the space between public and private organisations.
First, former Prime Minister Tony Blair hands out some advice to other Third Sector organisations as a result of his involvement in charity work.
Blair’s out-of-government office has now set up four separate organisations which all appear to loosely fit the term, [...]
Filed in: Corporate Social Responsibility (Sound behaviour)
THE age of the citizen journalist has arrived – and that’s official.
YouTube has this week created a special ‘reporter channel’ where anyone can upload film about news and events in their local community, organisation or business.
The channel is designed to encourage ‘citizen journalists’ to share their own films about news and events with the wider [...]
Filed in: Digital communications
RADIO 4’s Today programme has been broadcasting a new series of special reports on the care of elderly people.
This morning’s report provided a powerful reminder of exactly why the BBC is still the best public service broadcaster in the world.
Reporter John Manel told how he had enlisted a 70-year-old woman to go ‘undercover’ in a [...]
Filed in: Media relations