Pickle Jar Communications

As part of the work we’ve been doing for Ideas for Life TV, we were recently involved in a conference on digital media for business hosted at Alton Towers (18 March). Working with Ember Regis, we interviewed the key speakers from the event. Two of them were specifically speaking about how digital media can be [...]

So, here is a dilemma that has been rife in the press recently. Supposedly journalists are dipping into individual’s profiles on social networking sites like facebook, MySpace and Bebo to find out more about them for stories they are developing. I’m ever so slightly surprised that this has caused such an outcry, in truth. I [...]

This week I chaired the CIPR Education and Skills Sector Group’s panel discussion on ‘Building contacts with international media’. Needless to say the subject was popular with universities and we had a turnout of around 80 people. However, the session got me thinking about the varying degrees of ethics in the PR-journalist relationship around the [...]

Picked this up today from “For blog’s sake”. Very funny, and a great example of how you have to be careful with everything you publish online!

There was a really good 12 minute segment on You and Yours yesterday on Radio 4 (Friday 15th February) on Science and the media. Definitely worth a listen.

I think my partner might be getting a little suspicious about where all of his ties keep disappearing to. You see, without him knowing, I have been secretly stealing them (not such a secret once he sees this) for a training session that I am delivering in a couple of weeks time. The session is [...]

Now, Coventry doesn’t have the best of reputations. Being said to be “sent to Coventry” is no good thing, and Hitler clearly didn’t think much of the city either when he chose to drop a considerable amount of explosive on in over 50 years ago. Some visitors consider the ring-road to be an impenetrable barrier, [...]

I’m going to be chairing the CIPR Education & Skills Sector Group’s event on Building Contacts with International Media on the 26th February. It should be an interesting event and we already have lots of people signing up to attend. So now I have the challenge of deciding what questions to ask them, what way [...]

Here are the slides used at our recent session for University of Warwick students on “Dealing with the Media”. There isn’t a great deal of detail in here as I’m not a great believer of putting everything you say in a presentation onto the slides itself, but I thought it worth publishing them anyway. There [...]

Last week I attended a discussion event hosted by the CIPR’s Health sector group. The event focused mostly on the impact of media (print media in the main) on patients and patient groups. However, a speaker from the Parkinson’s Society through up an interesting point. Discussing their reactions to stories about medical developments or “breakthroughs” [...]