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31st March 2010

Mobile World Congress: are trade shows a media turnoff?

Wildfire PR jumped on a plane to Barcelona last month, with a number of our clients who were taking part in Mobile World Congress (MWC).

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Claire Barber
31st March 2010

Why I won’t be paying for The Times

So, The Times and Sunday Times will be launching new websites in May and will be the first UK newspaper to charge for their online

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Louise Palmer
31st March 2010

Traditional media is still important but we are less loyal to news brands

The US Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ) has just produced its annual report on the ‘State of the News Media’, taking stock of what

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Danny Whatmough
31st March 2010

Pop Culture & Miss Communication

Famous for her bold fashion statements, risqué music videos and expletive lyrics, Lady GaGa certainly didn’t disappoint when her latest music video ‘Telephone’ was unleashed.

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Chris Bell
29th March 2010

Save as many as you can.

As an owner of a large ‘older’ car, built the year the Dow closed above 4000 for the first time in history, the WTO was

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26th March 2010

The Times they are a’ charging

Today The Times and The Sunday Times announced that, from June, they will start charging for access to online content. The whole pay-wall debate has

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22nd March 2010

Yet *another* Nestlé Hate campaign

It seems yet another Nestlé hate campaign has caught the eye of journalists. Not content with making me fat, the international choccie-peddler has been busy

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19th March 2010

I, for one, welcome our new robot-journalist overlords

How could we pass up this one? As reported by The Guardian and The Singularity Hub, pesky scientists in Tokyo, (where else!), have developed a

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18th March 2010

Someone’s taken my toys away!

I know communication technology is a wonderful thing, and I wouldn’t have a job if it wasn’t around,  BUT … a rehab clinic for children

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15th March 2010

Viddy this my brothers…

Ok, time for a little PR tip. We sometimes give these away for free. There’s something I’ve been saying to clients over and over for

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12th March 2010

It’s the media, stupid

I take Japanese classes on Tuesday evenings. On this particular Tuesday evening I heard something really sobering. Horrific, in fact. I am one of only

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11th March 2010

CNN is scared of Facebook; they aren’t the only ones

I’ve written a lot recently about what I feel is a movement by Facebook to increase their hold on the social media world and become

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Danny Whatmough