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Davos Insider: 6 Themes for the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2020
by Laura Clementi and Richard Griffiths | November 5, 2019
As the final weeks of 2019 begin to settle in, eyes and minds are quickly shifting focus toward what the new year will bring. For many of our clients, that means setting sights on The World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos – a highly anticipated gathering of the world’s top government, business and civil […]
How To Stop Being Irritating To Media and Start Being Useful – A View from CommsCon
by Richard Griffiths | November 9, 2018
OK, so many of us in the communications industry already have great relationships with journalists but what I learned this week at the inaugural communications congress #CommsCon18 in London was that as an industry we can still do a lot better. What Journalists Want was the theme of an hour-long panel I chaired focusing on […]
BP's Boss Learns the Hard Way That Language Matters
by Richard Griffiths | June 7, 2010
BP’s chief executive, Tony Hayward, was back in London at the weekend to face the British media as shocking images of the impact of the oil spill on wildlife continue to dominate the front pages of newspapers. With beaches blighted, fishermen losing their livelihoods and BP rapidly losing its reputation and value, the strategy of […]