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Justine| January 26, 2011| Architecture, PR & Comms

Carchitecture: The evolution of the car park

Working with clients who are pushing the envelope and improving the world around us is a real joy for anyone working in PR. Most urbanites experience the delights of a parking building on a weekly, if not daily basis. Even if you’re not parking your car in one, you will…

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'Turbulent Line' at Brisbane Airport by Ned Kahn and Urban Art Projects. Courtesy: UAP
Peter| January 19, 2011| Architecture

Haiti: where architects are driving change

ING MEDIA is particularly proud to be working with John McAslan + Partners on the practice’s restoration of the Iron Market in Port-au-Prince. The market was the first completed reconstruction project in Haiti since the earthquake, and opened in time to mark the one year anniversary of the devastating natural disaster that destroyed much…

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Iron Market, Haiti. Image credit Allison Shelley
Leanne| January 19, 2011| General, PR & Comms

REASONS WHY IT’S WRONG TO HAVE UNPAID INTERNS

After I blogged about unpaid internships, Tanya de Grunwald, the founder of GraduateFog.co.uk asked me to explain why and how we came to the conclusion that the only way forward was to pay interns. See my blog here. http://graduatefog.co.uk/2011/1211/ing-media-internship-pr/

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Libby| January 10, 2011| Food & Drink

Chilango on Creating a Passionate Following

Our client Eric Partaker from Chilango, spoke at Restaurant Magazine’s R200 conference about Creating a Passionate Following. Eric and his business partner Dan opened the first of four Chilango Mexican restaurants in London just over three years ago. The restaurants have queues out the door and down the street every…

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Chilango Restaurant
Libby| January 6, 2011| Food & Drink

When food PR takes you to the street food stalls of Vietnam

In food and drink PR, getting under the skin of a client’s business is hugely beneficial in handling their communications. After all, the better you know a client, the easier it is to communicate exactly as they would if they didn’t spend all of their time running a business. In…

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Photo by Aaron Joel Santos
Leanne| January 6, 2011| General, PR & Comms

Ed Vaizey takes action following Psychologies’ ‘Put Porn in its Place’ campaign

As a PR professional, it is very satisfying to see the tangible results of your work. That’s how the ING team felt when on December 19, 2010, the Sunday Times carried a front page story on Ed Vaizey’s, Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, decision to meet with the…

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Sarah| January 5, 2011| PR & Comms

In-house versus consultancy: the eternal dilemma?

In-house versus consultancy: the eternal dilemma? How outsourcing can lead to a more strategic approach to communications. No PR worth his or her salt has anything but the highest regard for our colleagues and friends who work in-house. Having experienced both sides of the fence, I would venture that this…

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Leanne| January 4, 2011| General, PR & Comms

What is the legal status of the Liberty internship?

I was interested to see a flurry of activity on Facebook and Twitter today after the world famous department store Liberty posted a ‘job’ ad for an unpaid intern. Unpaid internships are a very common but controversial way of providing young people with an opportunity to ‘break into’ industry. They…

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