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Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing get my Goat!

By guest blogger Claire O'Connor (account manager, Smith & Smith PR)

Do you remember the school bullies who used to pretend to be your friends so that they could copy your homework? Today I had a similar experience with Response Source.

Local weeklies short-listed in Newspaper Society awards

Local stalwarts the Manchester Metro News, North East Manchester Advertiser, South Manchester Reporter and the Warrington Guardian are amongst titles short-listed in the Newspaper Society Weekly Awards 2007, to be held in Yorkshire later this month.

Standing up for Journalism on 5 November

On Monday 5 November we'll be joining our journalist colleagues for the NUJ's Stand Up For Journalism rally in Manchester, where the Society of Editors conference will be taking place. It will be part of a nationwide day of action to protest against cuts that increase media profit margins but result in a lot of unhappy journalists (and their families) ... as well as the public being less well informed.

For more information see the Stand Up For Journalism site.

Weeding out the PR Equivalent of Japanese Knotweed

Guardian technology editor Charles Arthur on his blog offers a depressing account of some of the lazier methods employed daily by certain PR, er, 'professionals' ...

Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?

Writing in the current issue of PR Week, Ian Monk feels inclined to persuade PR people that The Daily Mail is in fact OK to deal with. It is - we've done it, and we've even survived an attempted client bruising from their head investigative journalist.

Pictured: no, it's not a member of the Mail's investigative team - but it is indeed a terrier.