Just a brief thought this morning. I must first confess that I don’t really watch a lot of TV, that being said, reading the papers yesterday I was in two minds about Michael Grade’s departure from the BBC and, dare i say, defection to ITV for a cool £8m. My left lobe was thinking that this...

Look at this new viral ad and website run by the Tories: Debtors Are Tossers! Signalling a pretty drastic move away from David ‘man of the people‘ Cameron stance but it is genuine. Quote from David Cameron in today’s Guardian: “We know that we need to reach out to people disengaging...

We rarely stop and think about what we’re watching, least of all who is presenting it to us, nor their motives for doing so. Most of us also like to think we are fairly autonomous and free-thinking individuals who make up their own minds on issues based on objective information sourced from reliable...

It always amuses me when journalists vent their frustrations about PRs, PRs about Advertising execs and vice versa across the board. We all work in an interdependent industry which would lack functionality and productivity were respective cogs removed from the workings.As an industry, ‘media’...

Edelman Me2Revolution sends out an e-mail each week recommending five interesting places to visit on the Web, each linking to a particular theme. This week’s e-mail is about buzzwords and each is linked to a definition from Wikipedia. As some of you would have read from my last post, I do have...

With our offices being situated next door to Leicester Square we often walk out of the door not only to trip over masses of tourists, but occasionally come face to face with celebrities. I’m sure you all saw the launch coverage of Borat the movie in the newspapers last week, well on that night I left...

Imagine the world without blogs. For starter, you wouldn’t be reading this. But this is the interesting thing. Once upon a time newspapers are the true source of information and readers trust what they read because it is third party endorsement. Journalists are objective and what they write is trusted. I...

During the first rotation the Grads were also very kindly invited to help out with the Edelman Technology launch of dotMobi, a new mobile phone internet domain name. The event was held in the stylish Century Club, which as it happens turned out to be very stylish indeed; another event taking place in...

I am a big fan of office snacks, food certainly keeps me from lagging in the afternoons and I get especially excited when colleagues return from holiday and bring some weird and wonderful chocolates and sweets back for the rest of the department to feast on; recent contributions have been Lychee sweets...

I spent my first rotation at Edelman in Public Affairs (PA) – unfairly represented in the press as evil plotting lobbyists, PA is all about providing political agendas, research and intelligence and facilitating political dialogues for companies and organizations. It should be recognized in its...