Category: Public Relations

  • What do you know about BPA and food packaging?

    If you’re a listener to the FIR: The Hobson & Holtz Report podcast that I present with my colleague Shel Holtz every Monday, you will have heard our report in this week’s episode on US food company Progresso, a subsidiary…

  • Barclays cultural crookery and immorality

    What a destruction of trust in this report of what people in Barclays Bank have been doing behind the scenes and for which the bank has been fined £290 million. […] Former City minister Lord Myners told the BBC that…

  • The journey begins: guidance from the CIPR on PR and Wikipedia published

    It’s taken quite a while but it’s finally here – Wikipedia Best Practice Guidance for Public Relations Professionals: version 1 of a document that sets out a formal picture on how the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) believes public…

  • FIR Live #24: Hangout-On-Air panel discussion on influencer marketing

    Our first FIR Live broadcast on the web in real time via YouTube took place on Saturday June 16 to address the topic of influencer marketing. FIR hosts Shel Holtz and Neville Hobson led a discussion with an all-star panel…

  • The FT’s 1 million milestone on Google+

    The Financial Times’ post on Google+ yesterday was understated yet powerful: Today the Financial Times has reached 1m Google+ followers… Just three months ago, a survey reported that of all British national newspapers with a presence on Google’s social network,…