A lot of the Do’s in social media are changing as fast as viewers’ habits change, but others are as old as journalism: Who are…
Peter WilkinsonSeptember 4, 2015
This story in the SMH (here) is a lesson in Crisis PR; it reflects a lot of current sentiment, and you can see plenty of…
Peter WilkinsonJuly 24, 2015
This is a Crisis PR tip I picked up from Lord Tim Bell. It's going to sound over-protective, but it pays dividends. I was a…
Peter WilkinsonDecember 7, 2014
This week I helped a significant Australian company with a media crisis - an attack by a TV program alleging it had ripped off another…
Peter WilkinsonOctober 13, 2014
Lack of balance, trivialisation, inaccuracy, failure to pursue the truth – the complaints are recycled in every media training session. Here are two wonderful articles…
Peter WilkinsonAugust 20, 2014
Here is a really interesting report (IBM CEO survey: ‘Leading through Connections’), because it reinforces what we have been writing about, concerning CEO attitudes to…
Peter WilkinsonAugust 20, 2014
If you want a thought provoking giggle, read on. We are all grappling with social media, but none more than journalists and politicians who can…
Peter WilkinsonAugust 20, 2014
Public relations practitioners need to be constantly reminded about the pressure under which journalists work. They have employers, which are editors in the print medium.…
Peter WilkinsonAugust 20, 2014
The issue of cheque book journalism comes up again and again. It’s an important topic for all public relations practitioners because at some stage we…
Peter WilkinsonAugust 20, 2014
If a company having just developed a passable sustainability policy, while negotiating with a corporate affairs consultancy, sets a KPI of one positive article per…
Peter WilkinsonAugust 14, 2014
Below is a story posted this week by JeffBulas on online videos, quoting marketing Prof. Brent Cocker from Melbourne University. Brent claims to have cottoned…
Peter WilkinsonAugust 14, 2014
The last three days have involved three media training sessions, with the same three anxieties about journalists: bias, shallowness, inaccuracy. This is not new –…
Peter WilkinsonAugust 10, 2012