Playing host to a student on work placement can be a very rewarding experience: watching that individual develop new skills and gain confidence in handling unfamiliar challenges. It’s generally assumed that experience in a ‘real’ work environment will pay dividends when it comes to getting a toe on the career ladder, but what does a [...]

Public Relations is taking a beating, and why is that? I’m going out on a short limb to blame social media (well, and perhaps those doing poor-quality work). The echo chamber is amplifying and reverberating industry-wide on a global scale with anti-PR sentiment. Those who’ve had bad business experience with public relations are free to [...]

They’re proud to be opinionated, they aren’t constrained by the politics of the newsroom or by journalistic creeds, and there are millions of them with more popping up every day – they are bloggers, and reporters are increasingly seeking them out as sources on every topic imaginable. If you’re a PR pro and you don’t [...]

This Sunday Nick and I were fortunate to spend the afternoon at Elvington airfield outside York watching and driving a host of supercars on a press visit we had arranged with a number of journalists for one of our clients 6th Gear Experience. While chatting to one of the journalists about our other clients that [...]

  Today has been one of the busiest news days for quite some time. The ongoing situation with Shannon Matthews has jostled with the Mills McCartney divorce, the worsening global credit crunch as well as political troubles in Tibet. The Quest team has been involved fully in the media scrum ensuring national and international coverage [...]

Having spent a delightful weekend in Paris, it gave me the opportunity to catch up on reading (tip: Small Island by Andrea Levy). Devouring this week’s Media Guardian highlighted several interesting articles – two covered the rise (and rise) in importance of PR versus advertising, which Richard Bailey has written about, and the falling circulations [...]