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Can traditional media survive in the digital age? Our American cousins say “yes”

A SURVEY from America may give us an insight into the future shape of communications here in Britain.
Despite prophets of doom forecasting that the days of the traditional media are dead – or at least rapidly dying – are US cousins appear more optimistic.
Almost two thirds of the 1200-plus American journalists surveyed by PR Week, [...]

Filed in: Digital communications, Media relations

‘The Google Factor’ – does the internet offer an alternative to conventional opinion polls?

OPINION polls can be notoriously unreliable.
But does the internet now offer an alternative, more sophisticated, more reliable, way of measuring and tracking public opinion?
The race in the United States between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Presidential nomination, provides a fascinating insight into ‘The Google Factor’.
And it may also point the way for [...]

Filed in: Digital communications

Sound Behaviour (also known as Corporate Social Responsibility)

CORPORATE Social Responsibility is an ugly term for a noble aim.
It’s the buzz phrase increasingly used by global PR companies, the big corporations and the pundits.
Google it and you find more than three and a half million entries.
Many of these articles come from the United States, where CSR often seems to define the difference between [...]

Filed in: Corporate Social Responsibility (Sound behaviour)