Welcome to the draft, that magical collection of days where your favourite sports team's executive branch chooses players from the next generation. Each of the four major league sports in North America hold their drafts in the late spring/early summer, with the NFL in...
*** Major Spoiler Alert for Game of Thrones *** Well that’s a wrap of Game of Thrones Season 6! Winter is here, more houses and families are gone, body count was off the charts and more backstory about Jon Snow’s parentage is finally revealed. Now to wait a long 9...
Many people in the UK and, frankly, the world were stunned by the Brexit vote to leave the European Union. But maybe we all should have seen it coming. In an article in Vox by Ezra Klein, After Brexit and Trump, it’s time to stop trusting our guts and start trusting...
Notable journalist and media industry moves: PharmAsia News: will end publishing in June or early July. The news team will continue to cover pharma news in Asia for its sister outlet Scrip Intelligence. Asia editor Ian Haydock is the team leader. New York Post:...
As news of our potential acquisition of Agility from PRNewswire (via Cision) has made its way around the industry and social media, some of our customers have asked, “Is the boutique we’ve come to love going mainstream?” We’re here to say emphatically, “No way.” We’ll...
The United Kingdom is this week prepping for a referendum on whether or not to leave the European Union, a political tug-of-war that’s been dubbed the “Brexit” by observers and media alike. It’s a situation that’s caused some intense hand-wringing among those in...
*** Major Spoiler Alert for Game of Thrones *** Season six of Game of Thrones is winding down, and in classic GoT style, episode nine was massive. So, if you still haven’t gotten off your throne to watch it, I recommend you do, because here come the spoilers. In...
The New York Times, Vice and Mashable. In May, all three of these media groups announced planned staff changes to markedly scale back each of their newsrooms. The initial reaction on Twitter and elsewhere was the same doom-and-gloom declaration of the “death of...
As the countdown to Rio 2016 approaches, media outlets are paying conspicuously little attention to the games themselves—instead focusing on the plethora of issues plaguing the country as it prepares to host the first summer games in South America. While Rio appeared...
Notable journalist and media industry moves: Bloomberg News: onboards Chicago Tribune investigative reporter Jared Hopkins as a pharmaceutical industry reporter. Financial Times: Bloomberg News reporter, Alexandra Scaggs, comes onboard as a writer for the Alphaville...
This is the first in a two-part series on how to more effectively search for relevant media content using search strings. Monitoring the news certainly has evolved over the past couple of decades: gone are the days of flipping through newspapers and literally cutting...
As a media monitoring and analysis company, MediaMiser often finds insightful lessons in Twitter data. However, it doesn't take an extensive monitoring regime to pick out these valuable pitching lessons for public relations from @DearPR and @SmugJourno: Follow-up in a...