Category: Reputation

  • A tipping point sets a milestone for mainstream media evolution

    I’ve been reading through the News of The World today. It’s the first time I’ve ever bought this newspaper – and the last time, too, as this was its last edition. The closure that concludes 168 years of newspaper publishing…

  • On the death of a mainstream medium

    It’s an astonishing end to a newspaper that published its first edition in 1843 and grew to become the biggest-circulation English-language weekly newspaper in the world, with a readership averaging close to 7.5 million in 2010. That newspaper is the…

  • An apologetic tweeter

    A Malaysian social activist will apologise 100 times on Twitter in an unusual settlement with a magazine publisher in a defamation case, reports The Guardian. […] Fahmi Fadzil, an opposition politician’s aide and respected commentator on social issues, claimed on…

  • If FIFA looks like it’s in a crisis…

    When is a crisis not really a crisis? The answer is simple, according to the president of FIFA, the world governing body of professional football. FIFA has been embroiled in a scandal of alleged bribery and corruption for months with…

  • Criticism of Burson Marsteller now a firehose

    The kerfuffle surrounding PR firm Burson Marsteller and its poorly-planned and -executed blogger outreach on behalf of its client Facebook continues apace, on Facebook. Swift recap: Last week, Burson was caught out in what many critics see as unethical business…