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Located Paisley, Renfrewshire United Kingdom
Tags media training, presentation training, interview skills, PR blunders, Media Tips, Media
Our blog talks about the media in general and then we put our spin on recent news worthy stories and how media training could of helped them or how it has helped them get their message across.
Latest Blog Posts
- Axis scoops Outstanding Small Consultancy award, again. on Nov 4, 2009 in Latest Media Training News Axis Media Group CIPR Awards Media Mentor
Axis Media Group has been crowned one of the country’s top public relations agencies after scooping a major award at the prestigious CIPR PRide Scotland Awards. Accepting the Silver Award for Outstanding Small Consultancy was Axis Media Group’s m...
- What Is Ed Balls-up To? on Sep 7, 2009 in Latest Media Training News Ed Balls Gadaffi Lockerbie Media Prime Minister
A debate is currently raging in The Times about the Government’s handling of the release of the Libyan Bomber. Today, the Education Secretary told reporters: “I have to say that none of us wanted to see the release of al-Megrahi,”. But rewi...
- Who Faces The Virtual Chop? on Aug 25, 2009 in Latest Media Training News
Anyone who downloads copyrighted music or video from a file-sharing site will shortly be getting a knock on the door from a uniformed chap holding a pair of wire cutters. Soon afterwards their ability to access the interweb will be less than zero. We...
- Some Journalists Are Almost Human on Aug 11, 2009 in Latest Media Training News
One, frankly quite easy trick trips up interviewees time and time again. It’s something that should be obvious to anyone before they agree to be interviewed. Yet in practically every media training course we do, it’s easy to bring a bluff intervi...
- Even more bad news as unemployment figures are revealed on Jul 16, 2009 in Latest Media Training News
Another day, but not another dollar. Today it has been reported that the number of people claiming job-seekers allowance increased by 23,800 in June to 1.56 million; with the jobless total now hitting 2.38 million - the highest since 1995. Businesses...
- Goldman Sachs: A stake in the heart on Jul 16, 2009 in Latest Media Training News
A new pandemic has risen, and we’re not talking about swine flu. The Guardian’s Wall Street correspondent, Andrew Clark, recently described US mega bank Goldman Sachs as a “blood–sucking vampire squid” - a new terror that fe...
- What word makes you wince? on Jul 15, 2009 in Latest Media Training News
A selection of poets at the Ledbury Festival were asked, ‘what word do you hate and why?’ Their answers included ‘pulchritude’, from Philip Wells; ‘redacted’ from Geraldine Monk and ‘appal’ from Paul Batchelor,...
