Best practice communication was critical to allaying fear in the immediate response to the Westminster attacks but sensationalist media coverage needs to be challenged.

Speakers at Silicon Beached in London challenged delegates to think about their personal purpose in applying marketing and technology for good.

A considered approach will help land experts to interview as part of your studies.

Advertising Value Equivalent (AVE) festers as a public relations metric. It's changing but slowly.

A letter in response to an article I wrote for The Drum on mental health stopped me in my tracks. Language is critical in tackling prejudice.

A list of amazing women speakers for International Women's Day.

A commitment to qualifications and professional development is reflected in remuneration especially in the early years of a public relations career.

A #FuturePRoof report published by the PRCA explores the mental health of the public relations profession.

Organisations need to find their purpose in society. Facebook shows how in a manifesto by founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

The relationship between teaching and working should be a two way street. In public relations we've work to do.

It's dissertation season for media and public relations university students. Here are more than 40 potential areas of study.

A debate in London next week will explore the relationship between academics, teachers and practitioners in public relations.

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

The NHS and Sweden are empowering citizens and employees to share stories on Twitter, however the US National Park Service tells an entirely different type of story.

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

Public relations is on the front line in helping organisations tackle fake news. Here's how.

Here are the areas in marketing, media and public relations that I’m thinking about in my day job at Ketchum. They’re not so much predictions as a work in progress.

Firefighter and Stapleford Fire Station crew manager Kevin Tedds on using Facebook for community education and information.

A commitment to writing daily is a good response to writer’s block. Amanda Coleman has been blogging almost every day in 2016.

A visit to a foodbank in Newcastle shows that Paul Laverty and Ken Loach’s portrayal of hardship in the film I, Daniel Blake wasn’t an exaggeration.