Essentially what we do as a company is to help architects and those who work for architectural practices to communicate more effectively with the people they need to talk to. This communication is often with journalists in our media training courses and crisis communications courses but it could also be communication with internal audiences within [...]
I was going to write my interview of the week blog about the Archbishop of Canterbury’s appearance on the Today programme on Friday but it was actually the interview that followed his that struck me as the more interesting. It offers some useful insights from the point of view of media training and how to [...]
Media interviews conducted remotely – by phone, Zoom, Skype and other technology are on the increase. Many print journalists are under too much pressure now to leave the office to conduct interviews and so a phone conversation as become the norm, as we explain in our print media training courses. But new technology such as [...]
Essentially what we do as a company is to help lawyers to communicate more effectively with the people they need to talk to. This communication is often with journalists in our media training courses and crisis communications courses but it could also be communication with internal audiences within the firm, clients, regulators and others through [...]
Marcus Rashford has won his campaign. Yesterday the government performed a U-turn and agreed to allow 1.3million children in England to claim free school meal vouchers during the holidays. Why has the 22-year-old Manchester United forward been successful in his campaign? How did one young man end up changing government policy in a matter of [...]
Here’s a funny thing. Given that they’ve suffered particularly badly from the economic damage wrought by coronavirus over the last few months you would think that health clubs, restaurants and fashion retailers would be doing less media training than usual. But, as experienced media trainers for these sectors, we’ve seen a significant increase in the [...]
It’s a terrible story that has gripped the world’s media over the last few days. Really, the fact that it is a terrible story is why it’s gripped the world’s media, both conventional and social. A quick Google search for “George Floyd” turns up some 260 million results. From the perspective of journalism, media training [...]
Was Dominic Cummings right to make his 260-mile trek to Durham a few weeks ago? You probably have your own view. I’m not going to get into the rights or wrongs of his decision but as someone who provides media training courses and advises organisations on how to manage difficult issues, I’m interested in how [...]
The woman doing the most important job in Britain right now delivered an excellent media interview last week. Professor Sarah Gilbert, a vaccinologist at Oxford University, is leading the research in the UK to find an effective vaccine for the coronavirus. As a journalist who’s interviewed scores of doctors and scientists and as a media [...]
The current crisis means that all of us are suddenly holding more meetings and doing more presentations online. The number of daily active users on Zoom has increased by 378 per cent year on year on the 22nd of March. Meanwhile, its monthly active users have increased by 186 per cent, according to data from [...]
