This week’s Five Things includes a top story from ComRes about where MPs get their news, Eddie Mair leaving the BBC for LBC, Pride in London, Copyright law rejected in the EU (for now) and ...

Nick Grimshaw has announced that he is stepping down from his role of host of the Radio 1 Breakfast Show. He is swapping with Greg James, and will host a ‘brand new’ drivetime show. This ...

Sir Martin Sorrell has started his comeback, just six weeks after his departure from WPP. The marketing mogul has announced he is taking over Derriston Capital, a stock exchange listed cash shell, which he will ...

This week we’re not mentioning Arsene Wenger leaving Arsenal as it isn’t really a media, marketing or PR story (though it will be when the Arsenal brand inevitably gets scrutinised after their manager of 22 ...

BBC Radio 1 has announced a major overhaul of its schedule, with weekend programming now starting on Friday. The new Friday line-up starts with Radio 1’s Weekend Breakfast at 6.30am on Friday morning, hosted by ...

Following the murder of Stephen Lawrence, the Daily Mail ran a story under the headline ‘MURDERERS – the Mail accuses these men of killing. If we are wrong, let them sue us’, with pictures of ...

Sky News will be sold to Disney or ring-fenced to allow 21st Century Fox to buy the 61% of Sky it does not already own. This follows concerns from the Competition and Markets Authority that ...

As it’s a bank holiday weekend, we’ve dropped our number of things you shouldn’t have missed to four! Happy Easter and bank holiday one and all. 1. Statues on ITV buildings ITV is raising awareness ...

Adrian York is a contributor to London Unattached, the London Lifestyle blog that recently ranked in the top 10 London Lifestyle Blogs in the UK, and author of The Hedonist. We caught up with Adrian ...

Vuelio is delighted to announce a comprehensive webinar about the GDPR for the communications industry. We’ll be joined by Rowenna Fielding, GDPR specialist at Protecture, the data protection consultancy. The webinar GDPR for Comms – ...

Five Things You Shouldn’t Have Missed this week includes Facebook’s latest woes, political parties using data, Brand Ant & Dec, Count Dankula and Bumble swiping left on Tinder. 1. Facebook’s $50bn comms disaster The news ...

The CIPR artificial intelligence (AI) panel has published an initial list of 95 tools that are helping to make PRs work smarter. Is anything missing? The AI panel was founded in February to explore the ...

The sequel to the Leveson Inquiry has been cancelled by Matt Hancock, the secretary of state for digital, culture, media and sport. Hancock made an announcement to the house which explained he would be ‘formally ...

Comcast has announced a bid for Sky, rivalling the existing 21st Century Fox bid and threatening to dramatically reduce the Murdoch’s influence on the UK media landscape. Fox already owns 39% of Sky and has ...

This week’s Five Things includes the billion-dollar power of Kylie Jenner’s tweets, Corbyn’s media attack, the Westminster council lobbying story, KFC’s chicken crises and the Guardian’s new media editor.   1. Kylie Jenner wields the ...

Social media is often seen as the death of traditional media, as more people go online for their news. The ease with which competitive news sites can be created – coupled with low advertising rates ...

Max Mosley is reportedly attempting to use data protection laws to stop the press from talking about his past and accusing him of personally funding the Government-backed press regulator IMPRESS (a charity his family trust ...

Trinity Mirror has agreed a deal worth £126.7m for the publishing assets of Northern & Shell. The purchase includes the titles the Daily Express, Sunday Express, Daily Star, OK!, New! And Star. The sale brings ...

This is a guest post from Heshaam Hague, a content marketer at UK cleaning price comparison website, Service Octopus. Heshaam has held both client-side and agency roles, leading content strategy for a wide range of clients. As many ...

Vuelio recently hosted the Meet the Influencers session at the CIPR’s Influence Live event, where we were joined by two top bloggers to discuss working with PRs and they revealed the secrets of influence. After Ralf Little’s ...