Love taking to students about PR careers, today’s posse are from Manchester Metropolitan University Business School, with brilliant panel of industry & media folk sharing experiences PRCA Smoking Gun Agency

Fans of insane replies are in for a treat here

love this Getty Images photograph from inside the new Thames Tideway super-sewer under London

I was on a call with @meta last week and raised the issue of the insane amount of spamming of company pages.
The guy said 'but we can't filter them, because they might be legitimate Meta messages'
This is the latest.

This is tremendous

Last year, I quit a job at a well-respected national media outlet where I had to write a minimum of one 600 word news story every 40 minutes.

It was soul destroying + felt a bit pointless.

I also kept getting headaches from staring at the laptop + concentrating so intently.

Someone send some of that Yorkshire Tea

A minor public service announcement to public relations professionals. The journalists met at our annual getaway, and we agreed that if you follow up a cold pitch email *more than once* we'll collectively mark them as spam so your domain name will be blacklisted by the provider.

This is a sitcom premise

Arrest the lot of them

Unbelievably VAR had a look at this

Just hand it to him now, save all the fuss.

Movies. Civil War is flawed. All war films are. It feels though like an honest attempt at depicting a possible near future. Can't decide on the morality of making it though. 7/10.

Aid for Ukraine has passed!

Labour has been a Brexit party for years.
I think a lot of disappointment is coming down the line for people who remember the Blair era.

I cannot begin to understand why this has been published

Every paragraph in this story is madder than the one before thetimes.co.uk/article/28f948…

In a crowded field of awful, cheap, “treating human beings as chattels to be traded”, privileged tech-bro developed, empathy-free, “time-sump sold as SaaS”, me-too AI products too lazy to develop their own LLMs, so GPT-it, chuff on the internet, this takes the rich tea biscuit

#OnThisDay 1918: Celebrated performer, author, poet, musician, painter, actor, environmental campaigner, conservationist, cartoonist and Goon, Spike Milligan was born.

In this clip, Milligan chats about his faith, his failures and how he would like to be remembered.