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Edelman in Polish takeover spat

Dennis Howlett has an update about the Edelman – Migut Media kafuffle which has been bubbling around on email over the last few weeks. The disagreement allegedly relates to Edelman’s attempted acquisition of Polish PR…


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Thank you for your patience

I’m sitting on an Alaska Airlines flight back from Seattle to Oakland. The flight has been delayed by two hours. It happens. In fact, it happened several weeks ago on this same trip with Alaska….


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Piers Morgan – The Insider

I’ve just been given a copy of The Insider – The Private Diaries of a Scandalous Decade by Piers Morgan, former editor of UK tabloid, The Mirror. No stranger to gossip and scandal, Morgan is…


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Media guide

The latest LEWIS Media Guide for the US is now available. It provides contact details for some of the leading IT publications, wire services, blogs and dailies in a handy poster-sized format. You can download…


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AlwaysOn ramps up

The AO conference is coming up fast on July 19-21. This week we’ve been preparing to announce the AO 100 award winners, which will go out on Tuesday. I’m moderating a keynote by David Kelley,…


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Net to Newspapers: Drop Dead

BW: The new and troubling reality for newspapers is that even if they excel as purveyors of information to appreciative audiences, they still face tough business terrain. “They can try to be the destination where…



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Next Fifteen buys OutCast

Next Fifteen, which owns tech PR brands such as Text 100, Bite and AugustOne, has just acquired tech boutique OutCast for $6m. The intention is to run OutCast as a new brand under the NFC…


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iShuffle

I seem to be doing well for gifts at the moment. Check out the free 1 Gb iShuffles which were doled out at the partner event in the UK. I’ve just tested it out on…