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2012 Archive

Are you taking full advantage of local media?

Charity copyright fees: for principle or profit?

Improve your press releases

Why is The Guardian supporting a tax on charities?

Users as curators: an audioboo case study

The value of generating your own video content

Choosing the right words

Integrate platforms and amplify your message

Make the most of your charity report

Controlling your message

How to build your blogger network

How to communicate a 2011 disaster

Why does the media give so little coverage to charities?

Always be prepared…

Try doing things differently

You need more than mainstream media

Five times five = a lot more media coverage

What is the value of a famous face?

Getting media attention: it’s all about hooks and research

A year in the life of… charities

Charities pay the price for paywalls

Whizz-Kidz on the box

Employing the Five Ws (and one H)

Being powerful without looking powerless

Developing a social media strategy

In the excitement about digital, don’t forget the people

Snow, snow all around

Hitting the headlines in 2009

Planning for Controversial Campaigns

Bad Science, Good Charity Communications

Grylled by the media

Free Marketing and PR Support

Are we getting the media we deserve?

How’s your relationship with your agency?

Planning publications that get people talking

Power of the BBC or Reflection of Public Opinion?

Timing is everything…but be careful what you wish for…

Gill Cox – agony aunt for Bella, health editor for Woman’s Own, and contributor to a number of other women’s magazines – offers some advice on promoting health stories.

Journalist: Demons Within

Bear with us

How did the Scout Association turn a local story into a national one?

Press coverage without press releases

What campaign has everyone been talking about this week?

Working together – when one voice encompasses many

‘Day of’ fatigue

How did The Scout Association handle a potentially damaging story last week?

National ‘no national campaigns’ day?

Media Volunteers

Freelance journalist Johanna Payton discusses askCHARITY

Why charities need to become more like news organisations

Kelvin MacKenzie: The verdict

Charity Communications Conference 2008

Crisis management

Engaging Charity Writing

It’s a simple Monday morning thing

Who are your ‘big five’ journalists?

Going Beyond News

Making use of online PR

Gideon Burrows on what makes a good broadcast interview

NSPCC to set up expert body to protect children on reality TV

Charities take on TV producers over use of babies on TV

Media ethics?

Return of the real

Kids on TV – are the Ofcom guidelines about to change?

Find out more about journalists

BBC axes Planet Relief

The fight over copy approval

Don’t hang up

Insulting titles?

The secrecy surrounding newspaper charity appeals

Charities will have a harder time trying to get the BBC to support their campaigns in future

A great resource from Australia

The death of the press release?

a useful toolkit from the National Audit Office!

should real children be used in programmes at all?

Women’s magazines really do screen case studies according to their looks

Sometimes I understand journalists’ frustration…

Fighting back against negative stories in the press

Press release blunders

Will journalists bypass charities when looking for case studies…

Adam Sampson at the NCVO Campaigning Effectiveness Conference

Does the media treat elder abuse differently to child abuse?

The Morality of the Media

Debt case studies – are there any?

Are charities “society’s voice of righteous opposition”?

BBC Outreach – a new site and newsletter

One way to get your organisation known by journalists

Embargoes and journalists’ dislike of them

If a journalist can’t make contact…

Another report on media stereotypes of young people

Charity fundraisers under media scrutiny

the Secret Millionaire – a missed opportunity for charities?

The power of the sound-bite

What happens when you introduce refugees to the media?

TV nightmares

In reality the media are happy to take volunteering stories…

Free Information on Media in Your Area

Women in Journalism debate the use of case studies

An outrageous case study request…

Big charities persuading big broadcasters to collaborate with them…

the use or not of press releases

Tsunami OK for broadcast DEC appeal but not Lebanon

The treatment of asylum seekers in the media

BBC TV News is very keen to meet new charities

Suicide and how the media report it

Do charity coalitions have clout with the media?

Media and CSR – a relatively new venture

Should we censor journalists’ requests?

Media Connections 2006

How to get a story to BBC News

TV and the developing world – the challenge of getting producers to be interested

Voyeuristic televsion

Timing is crucial

The ebay millionaire who is bankrolling campaigning films

the BBC and death

Charites and the media – how accessible should charities be?