This earnings season, comms teams have been tasked with either explaining poor performance or, much harder, minimising big profits. In...

In PR matters, time can be a threat and an asset. Delay in action leads to criticism but can also result in issues being forgotten. Both...

Social media is lighting up with people competing to complain about the Hobsons Pledge wrap-around of a NZ Herald issue this week. It’s...

We imagine that the funeral directors at the heart of the Casketeers reality TV series have benefitted financially from the publicity....

National MPs marched into Fieldays wearing matching blue-checkered Swanndris without a speck of cow doo on them. An affinity for kitschy...

A print cartoonist made a perfect point this week about an issue we have worked on. In one static image they summarised the issues which...

We’re intrigued by the Police use of media to try to spook Tom Phillips and those who might be helping him evade Police for over two...

Every media enquiry is a chance to say something good about yourself. Corrections didn’t consider this when defending the $300,000 spent...

We think of stories or events as circles: they need to be completed – usually by you. Take the recent hoopla over a rat’s foot found in a...

A common cause of reputation damage is a failure to anticipate. Accusations that a Kiwibank manager’s neglect helped a customer invest in...

New Zealanders, with our international reputation as relaxed quipsters, should be expected to take the opportunity offered by April 1st....

Wailing over media job losses has obscured research in the same week that every mainstream media outlet in New Zealand scores under 5/10...

This month Blackland released its triennial study into the academic and working backgrounds of current Members of Parliament. We collate...

Blackland has a reputation for helping new ideas get heard and adopted. This can be especially challenging for infrastructure because the...

A watershed moment in the career of every Prime Minister is not when the media turns on them, but when they turn on the media. It’s a...

An incredible 12 million people saw the social media video of an attractive tramper complaining that her North Face coat was not...

There’s no perfect moment in PR. You must capitalise on all your chances. So we were impressed with Havana’s Potti Wagstaff comments when...

The biggest risk to the Coalition Government is the lack of attention small problems will receive. Everyday system dysfunction is having...

This week we needed some information from a Government agency. Like many organisations, the only contact point was a web form, or a...

While media took a paint-by-numbers angle that the failure of upstart grocery store Supie’s underscored the supermarket duopoly, Powered...