Marks & Spencer is launching its Christmas advert this evening during the Pride of Britain awards. The Paddington-fronted #LoveTheBear campaign, goes beyond just a 90-second TV spot, with in-store product tie-ins, charitable fundraising and cross-channel ...

‘Fake News’ is the Collins Dictionary word of the year for 2017. Defined by Collins as ‘false, often sensational, information disseminated under the guise of news reporting’, Fake News has taken the political world by ...

This big stories of the week from the world of PR, media and communications, including Snapchat’s warning, Apple’s hire, Piccadilly Circus, Radio 1’s listening stats and Facebook’s publisher experiment. 1. Snapchat’s first ASA warning Geordie ...

Emma Hill is the publisher of His & Hers Magazine and the recently launched accompanying His & Hers Magazine Blog. Launched in 2011, His & Hers Magazine is a lifestyle title in the North West ...

As the Conservative Party Conference comes to a close, Theresa May has been handed a P45, Boris Johnson is facing fresh calls to resign and Jacob Rees-Mogg has come face to face with protestors crashing ...

The Conservative Party Conference is now underway and the highlights so far include Chancellor Philip Hammond announcing an extra £300m of funding for rail infrastructure in the North, Environment Secretary Michael Gove announcing the Government ...

Taking a brief hiatus from our podcast (and reverting to old-fashioned reading), we present five things you shouldn’t have missed from the worlds of media, marketing and communications. 1. Labour Party Conference The Opposition party’s ...

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has released the advertising complaint figures from the first half of 2017. TV adverts drew the most complaints with 5,127 about 2,272 adverts; Online was a close second, with 4,062 ...

IMPRESS, the Royal Charter-backed press regulator, has banned its chief exectuive and three of its own board members from dealing with major news publishers, due to perceptions of bias against them. As reported in the ...

The Labour Party Conference is coming to a close for 2017, with a huge number of headlines generated from the four-day event. The Single Market was the key focus early on but has since been ...

Laura Kuenssberg, the BBC’s political editor, has been assigned security detail at the Labour Party conference after sustained online abuse. The BBC’s first female political editor has endured online abuse consistently since she was thrust ...

The #VuelioVoice podcast covering the major trending stories from the worlds of media, marketing and PR this week. Listen to Akeshia Clarke and Jake O’Neill discuss five things you shouldn’t have missed. This week the ...

The latest report from the Office of National Statistics on employment by occupation shows the number of journalists has declined year-on-year by nearly 11,000 across both employed and self-employed journalists, editors and professional bloggers working ...

Male journalists are still in the majority when it comes to national newspaper front pages. A study by Women in Journalism (WIJ) has found that just 25% of front page stories were written by women ...

ProPublica, the investigative journalism site, managed to buy adverts targeted at people who had expressed an interest in the topics ‘Jew hater’, ‘How to burn jews’ and ‘History of why jews ruin the world’. After ...

The latest report from Ofcom has revealed that women, ethnic minorities and disabled people are all under-represented by broadcasters. The report, Diversity and equal opportunities in television 2017, has led Ofcom to call for more ...

The biggest annual survey into the habits and behaviours of UK bloggers has been published, revealing the industry is professionalising, not all bloggers believe in disclosure and relationships with PRs vary wildly depending on the ...

Ofcom has found Channel 4 News in ‘serious breach’ of the broadcasting code. The episode in question, broadcast on 22 March, wrongly identified Abu Izzadeen as the Westminster terror attacker. As reported in the Guardian, ...

A round-up of all the trending media, marketing and PR stories you shouldn’t have missed this week. 1. Bell Pottinger The troubled PR giant is having a terrible week. James Henderson, CEO, resigned on Sunday. ...

Tab Media, the publisher behind the Tab and babe, has raised $6 million dollars in a financing round, with the majority coming from Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. The Tab was started by three students at ...