Media

The British press has kept up the tradition of completely omitting their partisan veil this year with election day splashes that read more like propaganda than news coverage. In tradition with the past The Sun attacked Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn with the front page headline "Don't Chuck Britain in the Cor-Bin". it echoed their archaic coverage of the 1992 election when they featured the face of then-Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock in the shape of a light bulb with the strapline "If...

New research from the charity Mind shows that media coverage of mental health problems improves understanding and promotes help seeking, as the charity launches Mind Media Awards 2017. News reports, documentaries, celebrity interviews, soap and drama storylines about mental health have a huge impact on encouraging people to talk, show new findings released by Mind today. More than a third (35%) of people who have seen a storyline involving a character with mental health problems say it inspired them to...

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has announced he is planning to set up an online news site to combat the problem of "fake news". Wikitribune will offer factual and neutral articles by using professional journalists and volunteers. The site will eschew traditional advertising revenue in favour of regular donations such as the ones used to support its online encyclopedia. A demo version of the site, seen by the BBC, declared "the news is broken and we can fix it". Mr Wales...

Today the Daily Mail has issued a public apology to US First Lady Melania Trump and paid damages and costs understood to be in the range of £2 million for a story alleging she once worked as an escort. An apology and full retraction was published prominently by Mail Online and will also appear in the print edition - and so it should. The Mail must learn that it cannot print falsehoods about the First Lady or anyone else for that matter,...

Could you track down and outsmart a ring of international thieves? Would you go on one last, big score to pay the bills? And most important of all, how far would you get with $140 billion in gold bullion? The new infographic from Gocompare.com Van Insurance looks at the 56 biggest heists in film since 1956. While only 41% get away with it (and a further 27% at least avoid getting caught), the total amount stolen across all the films is about $151 billion...

Ex Chancellor of the Exchequer and current Tory MP George Osborne has been named as the new editor of the London Evening Standard. Osborne will succeed Sarah Sands in early May as well as continuing to fulfil his other commitments as an MP, editing the paper on four days a week. Speaking following the announcement Osborne said: “This is such an exciting and challenging job and I’m thrilled to take it on. The Evening Standard is a great paper, testimony to...

Our new favourite Twitter account is President Supervillain! https://twitter.com/PresVillain/status/834470392890785792 Comic writer and editor D.M. Higgins has used President Trump's own words to great comic effect by sticking them in the speech bubbles of classic sinister comic supervillians. https://twitter.com/PresVillain/status/833365274078363649 And within just a fortnight the Twitter account has amassed a cosmic 29.7K followers! https://twitter.com/PresVillain/status/832311031124856832 It's pretty sinister how easily The Donald's words transfer into comic book villains' mouths - whether demented rants at press conferences and rallies: https://twitter.com/PresVillain/status/832333550716387328 or malevolent policy threats that have slipped...

Unless you have been living in a ‘content free’ cave (maybe those avoiding Brexit or Trump), it’ll come as no surprise that search significantly drives the buying decision making process. Search marketing, in the context of online searching via sites like Google, is a dominant touchpoint for researching and reviewing everything from cars to cats. According to ‘Search Engine Land’, Google handles at least 2 trillion searches annually. As search is so accessible (with rise to mobile) in providing a...

          With an eye-watering price for prime slots, Super Bowl ads are always sure to make a mark. And this year many did by taking a pop at the United States President - mainly by promoting the legacy of immigration and tolerance that made America great - in a rather different way than the one Donald Trump promises. Though the NFL and Fox who air the event ban explicit politicisation, the adverts paying a record $5 million for a...