Analysis of 400,000 email media pitches has found that brevity is the key to success.

2022 will be a year of consolidation for a news industry that has been disrupted by the COVID-19 crisis, changing audience behaviour and technology.

The future of news is complicated. The Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2020 is a challenging read. There are no easy answers.

The COVID-19 crisis has hastened the structural changes already underway in newsprint media. It’s time to start thinking about what might come next.

Public relations practitioner Mike Hind published a thread on Twitter about media framing following the three letters sent to the European Union. It’s so good that I asked him if I could publish it in full.

Print news media under threat is not an exclusive. But what of its future asks Jessica Pardoe in this guest blog.

There’s not much good news for UK media in the Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2019.

Tailored pitches have always been the key to success in media relations. Adding SEO and social data to pitches add huge value for time pressed journalists. Views are the most common measure of success for publishers.

An experiment by Reuters to create fake video content has helped develop best practice techniques for identifying so called deep fake content.

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport fake news report disappoints in its single-minded attack on Facebook as the destroyer of public discourse and democracy.

An internet visionary vindicated.

Kingston University has published an archive of the Leveson Inquiry six years after it reported.

Media relations remains an important part of the execution of a public relations campaign alongside paid, shared and owned media.

A well-functioning news media is critical to democracy. A series of recent studies report on the health of the business of news.

Absolute answers on the impact of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on public relations are hard to come by especially from database vendors. It's an issue I shared recently with ResponseSource founder and chairman Daryl Willcox.

How do you manage your mental fitness in the face of the current news agenda? Here are some suggestions from my network.

Can you make sense of Donald Trump’s communication style? Organisations must stand up for what they believe in.

Many bloggers run lucrative media operations that rival traditional media.

There’s a standoff on the internet between consumers and publishers. It's difficult to see how anyone can win.