Using research about audience behaviour and social psychology, Claire Wardle pioneers new ways in which newsrooms can tackle issues associated with fake news and manipulated content. Currently leading strategy and research at First Draft, a non-profit ...

In the old days, all you needed to work in the PR industry was a laptop and a mobile. Two pieces of technology that feel surgically glued to you as a 24/7 news cycle means ...

If you want to ensure your organisation influences the political agenda, a public affairs strategy will be crucial to your wider stakeholder engagement. And if you’re struggling to identify who to engage with and how, ...

The Metropolitan Police’s communications chief, Martin Fewell, has spoken out about an image on the front page of The Times newspaper showing PC Keith Palmer as he lay dying following the recent Westminster terror attacks. Fewell, ...

The Daily and Sunday Telegraph are to cut a number of production jobs at its London base and outsource sub-editing duties to Press Association staff at their HQ in Howden, Yorkshire. Press reports suggest upwards of ...

The digital edition of The Times, one of the few leading newspaper titles to remain tightly concealed behind a paywall, has revealed that paid subscriptions have grown by a staggering 200 percent since the newspaper abandoned ...

Snapchat has signed a deal with MGM to develop original TV programming for the social network. The partnership follows similar deals with television networks including NBC, ESPN and the BBC. According to media reports, standalone ...

George Osborne is a busy man. He’s a MP, works as an advisor to a US investment firm, chairs the Northern Powerhouse Partnership, is a Kissinger Fellow, a popular after-dinner speaker and, somewhat controversially, the ...

The decision by Channel 4’s home affairs correspondent Simon Israel to break the unverified news that Trevor Brooks, aka Abu Izzadeen, was the prime suspect in Wednesday’s terror attack, has raised questions over pressure on ...

Matt Brittin, Google’s head of Europe, the Middle East and Africa, has publically apologised after adverts for a number of prominent brands and UK government agencies appeared alongside extremist content on the search engine’s YouTube video ...

When Colleen McEnaney got the opportunity to work at the Wall Street Journal in the UK, she jumped at the chance. Originally from the US, Colleen now lives in London and works as a graphics editor at the ...

A cross party group of MPs have written to the  BBC’s director general, Tony Hall, and the incoming chair of its new governing body, David Clementi, to warn that the broadcaster’s reputation for impartiality may ...

Alfred Joyner is the head of video at IBT Media, a fast growing global digital news organisation and parent company of the International Business Times & Newsweek. In this spotlight interview, Alfred explains how IBT Media ...

The UK Government has join a number of big brands and pulled advertising from YouTube due to fears that taxpayers’ money is helping fund extremist content. According to a report in The Times, advertising from ...

The Evening Standard has announced the appointment of George Osborne as editor. He’ll take up the role in May, succeeding current editor Sarah Sands who will replace Jamie Angus as editor of BBC Radio 4’s ...

Barely a week goes by without another journalist, celebrity or other public figure reportedly quitting social media due to the high levels of abuse on the channel. This week it’s the turn of Owen Jones, ...

Do you want to improve your social media engagement? Get our brand new guide to discover how some of the world’s biggest brands are using live video. Brands such as BMW, Nestle and Starbucks have ...

MPs are set to consider if social networks require greater legislation to force them to improve the way they handle complaints. The parliamentary enquiry has been called after a BBC investigation highlighted issues around Facebook’s ...

One of the main reasons brands love working with social media influencers is their ability to speak to consumers outside of the normal constraints of a business relationship. Authenticity is key in this area and ...

Philip Hammond’s first (and last) Spring Budget pulled few punches, with the main surprises coming in the form of tax increases for the self-employed and a notable absence of Brexit. The online press, social media ...