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Sir Alex Ferguson announced his retirement this morning after 26 years as manager of Manchester United. The news followed speculation and rumour which culminated last night in a series of articles across news sites. It was the Telegraph’s: ‘Sir Alex Ferguson must leave Manchester United completely when he decides to retire’ by Jim White that [...]

Exciting times here at Cision UK! We will soon launch our media requests social media platform Seek or Shout in the UK and are taking on beta testers. Watch the video and if you would like to join our beta group then email me on sabina[dot]rosander[at]cision[dot]com.

The Local Council Elections results are still coming in and the big story is that UKIP has gained seats. Unsurprisingly, this has increased the social media conversation around the party, boosting its online profile. As the early results are currently being digested and discussed, it is UKIP that leads today’s mentions largely thanks to its [...]

My weekly pick of comms news curated via @CisionUK. Enjoy the bank holiday weekend! In wake of AP hack, Twitter looks to get serious about journalist relations by @NateIngraham via The Verge‘A huge number of journalists already use Twitter, both for news-gathering and as a way to report on breaking events, but a new job posting indicates that [...]

More Than Toast is featured in this week’s Media Updates. Author Alice Harold talked to Cision about the Follow/No-Follow link debate, collaboration and PRs believing in her blog. Why should people read your blog?As a compulsive over-sharer I find myself writing about a lot of things other people perhaps don’t disclose on their blogs. Time [...]

Cision data shows that women occupy 35% of editor positions at Britain’s largest newspapers. The FT Weekend Magazine’s Sue Matthias says female journalists need more role models. A statistical analysis of Cision’s data reveals that of Britain’s 12 largest national newspapers, only the Daily Express, the Guardian, Financial Times and The Times exceed the 35% [...]

According to CisionPoint’s Media Database 35% of editors at national daily newspapers are female. Of the 12 dailies, the Guardian and the Daily Express have the smallest gender gap, with 40% and 42% female editors respectively. At the other end of the scale, The Independent and The Sun have the worst balance with 26% and [...]

Video is increasingly becoming the medium of choice for web users, with Dynamics Media reporting that video consumption has grown 45% year on year. As PR is increasingly about creating and owning content, video creation should be an area all PRs are looking to exploit. While video is already a huge part of digital culture, [...]

A couple of weeks ago I attended the lovely news:rewired event held by journalism.co.uk, where Luke Lewis editor at BuzzFeed UK and former editor at NME.com shared a few tips on how to grow social media communities. Here are the top five tips I took away from Luke’s session: 1. Think about your social media [...]

Here’s my weekly comms news round up curated via @CisionUK. Just in time before you head out to enjoy the sun! The Wall editor Gordon MacMillan to join Twitter UK as editorial manager by @StephenLepitak via The Drum ‘Gordon MacMillan, editor of Haymarket’s social media blog The Wall, is to depart the company after 15 [...]