Jo PRComms
@joprcomms.bsky.social
NW-based comms professional.
PR/corporate comms/stakeholder/internal and external comms/writing/journalism/culture/arts/public policy/leadership here.
Personal elsewhere.
PR/corporate comms/stakeholder/internal and external comms/writing/journalism/culture/arts/public policy/leadership here.
Personal elsewhere.
Absolutely fantastic piece of writing.
Who was Jeffrey Epstein?
Tanya Gold goes inside the mind of a 21st-century monster
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Tanya Gold goes inside the mind of a 21st-century monster
https://bit.ly/4rlRDja
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November 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Absolutely fantastic piece of writing.
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When did broadcasters stop mentioning which party select committee chairs represent when interviewing them? If you didn’t know, you’d think they were independent commentators, and they’re just not.
I completely accept many are v good at chairing inquiries, but they’re still sitting party MPs.
I completely accept many are v good at chairing inquiries, but they’re still sitting party MPs.
November 27, 2025 at 10:27 AM
When did broadcasters stop mentioning which party select committee chairs represent when interviewing them? If you didn’t know, you’d think they were independent commentators, and they’re just not.
I completely accept many are v good at chairing inquiries, but they’re still sitting party MPs.
I completely accept many are v good at chairing inquiries, but they’re still sitting party MPs.
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Editorial meeting: “Reader’s Wives sounds a bit provincial and Daily Star. What can we call it to appeal to Guardian readers in Chiswick?”
Answer:
Answer:
‘It was no longer a gift for my husband. It was all for me’: four women on how boudoir photography changed their lives
‘It was no longer a gift for my husband. It was all for me’: four women on how boudoir photography changed their lives
Now a hugely popular photographic genre, many women pay thousands to have intimate portraits taken of themselves by a professional. What do they get out of it?
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November 27, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Editorial meeting: “Reader’s Wives sounds a bit provincial and Daily Star. What can we call it to appeal to Guardian readers in Chiswick?”
Answer:
Answer:
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Post Mortem, by Private Eye’s Richard Brooks, chronicling how the Post Office scandal and cover-up developed and later unravelled, is on sale now at all good bookshops.
➡️ Available at: www.private-eye.co.uk/books
➡️ Available at: www.private-eye.co.uk/books
November 27, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Post Mortem, by Private Eye’s Richard Brooks, chronicling how the Post Office scandal and cover-up developed and later unravelled, is on sale now at all good bookshops.
➡️ Available at: www.private-eye.co.uk/books
➡️ Available at: www.private-eye.co.uk/books
When did broadcasters stop mentioning which party select committee chairs represent when interviewing them? If you didn’t know, you’d think they were independent commentators, and they’re just not.
I completely accept many are v good at chairing inquiries, but they’re still sitting party MPs.
I completely accept many are v good at chairing inquiries, but they’re still sitting party MPs.
November 27, 2025 at 10:27 AM
When did broadcasters stop mentioning which party select committee chairs represent when interviewing them? If you didn’t know, you’d think they were independent commentators, and they’re just not.
I completely accept many are v good at chairing inquiries, but they’re still sitting party MPs.
I completely accept many are v good at chairing inquiries, but they’re still sitting party MPs.
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I guess it’s a compliment that the top story on BBC London’s TV/online output today is a direct lift of a month-old London Centric story? But once again the BBC is consistently the worst news outlet for actually remembering to credit others.
November 25, 2025 at 7:52 AM
I guess it’s a compliment that the top story on BBC London’s TV/online output today is a direct lift of a month-old London Centric story? But once again the BBC is consistently the worst news outlet for actually remembering to credit others.
OMG. The Guardian have confused Kenneth Clark, presenter of the 1969 series 'Civilisation' with Tory ex-MP & former Chancellor Kenneth Clarke in their review of the new BBC series 'Civilisations:Rise & Fall'
November 25, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Defying brevity.
Beautiful.
Beautiful.
clapping and cheering at this like I'm watching some live sports
November 23, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Defying brevity.
Beautiful.
Beautiful.
I’m not going to spend any time finding out who Olivia Nuzzi is and you can’t make me.
November 21, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I’m not going to spend any time finding out who Olivia Nuzzi is and you can’t make me.
I don’t think I’ve ever read a PR piece that clashes so dramatically with my experience. My IRL discussions & social timelines are full of how deeply weird, off-putting and cultish the junkets are: interesting to feel so differently from the “voice” of PR.
influenceonline.co.uk/2025/11/20/w...
influenceonline.co.uk/2025/11/20/w...
Wicked’s real spell: The marketing of friendship
influenceonline.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I don’t think I’ve ever read a PR piece that clashes so dramatically with my experience. My IRL discussions & social timelines are full of how deeply weird, off-putting and cultish the junkets are: interesting to feel so differently from the “voice” of PR.
influenceonline.co.uk/2025/11/20/w...
influenceonline.co.uk/2025/11/20/w...
Very interesting @trientertainment.bsky.social episode with Kate Phillips, BBC’s Chief Content Officer today. Highly recommended.
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The Rest Is Entertainment
TV & Film Podcast · Updated twice weekly · Richard Osman & Marina Hyde share insider knowledge on TV, movies, and pop culture.
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November 20, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Very interesting @trientertainment.bsky.social episode with Kate Phillips, BBC’s Chief Content Officer today. Highly recommended.
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Me, crying: you can’t just keep calling your podcasts “The Rest Is” Goalhanger
Gary Lineker: “pleased to announce The Rest Is Crying coming soon”
Gary Lineker: “pleased to announce The Rest Is Crying coming soon”
Goalhanger has announced the launch of a new twice-weekly "video first" podcast show called The Rest Is Science hosted by Professor Hannah Fry and Michael Stevens
November 18, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Me, crying: you can’t just keep calling your podcasts “The Rest Is” Goalhanger
Gary Lineker: “pleased to announce The Rest Is Crying coming soon”
Gary Lineker: “pleased to announce The Rest Is Crying coming soon”
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With a professional hat on, this is an example of why content governance matters. When you create content, you should also think about how it will be archived or deleted. Otherwise, you end up with information overload, clutter, and content rot.
November 15, 2025 at 9:36 AM
With a professional hat on, this is an example of why content governance matters. When you create content, you should also think about how it will be archived or deleted. Otherwise, you end up with information overload, clutter, and content rot.
What sad news. She was a wonderful writer and critic of many art forms. As a reader, I’ll miss her.
Condolences to family, friends and colleagues.
Condolences to family, friends and colleagues.
Terrible news: Rachel Cooke has died. She was 56.
When I was lucky enough to commission her at The Observer, I wanted her to write everything. She was seriously witty and crystalline in her argument when being serious, which she was on a dazzling range of topics. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
When I was lucky enough to commission her at The Observer, I wanted her to write everything. She was seriously witty and crystalline in her argument when being serious, which she was on a dazzling range of topics. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Remembering Rachel Cooke | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 8:19 PM
What sad news. She was a wonderful writer and critic of many art forms. As a reader, I’ll miss her.
Condolences to family, friends and colleagues.
Condolences to family, friends and colleagues.
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A theory I have is that Substack is making people less careful readers, in that so many Substacks do not have an editor going “we don’t need this spoonfeeding or this pointless disclaimer that bad things are bad”, and so people increasingly expect more “bad things are bad” style disclaimers.
Once more I am begging those of you with Substacks to get an editor to look over your long, heartfelt screeds.
November 11, 2025 at 12:02 PM
A theory I have is that Substack is making people less careful readers, in that so many Substacks do not have an editor going “we don’t need this spoonfeeding or this pointless disclaimer that bad things are bad”, and so people increasingly expect more “bad things are bad” style disclaimers.
Fantastic bit of comms, this 👏
November 7, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Fantastic bit of comms, this 👏
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Really important advice.
And if you insist on posting these things or keeping them up after you've been informed they're fake, that's going to be a quick block.
"Well, it could be true!" It's not.
"Well, you can imagine." Nope.
"Well, they do it!" Yeah, no.
And if you insist on posting these things or keeping them up after you've been informed they're fake, that's going to be a quick block.
"Well, it could be true!" It's not.
"Well, you can imagine." Nope.
"Well, they do it!" Yeah, no.
Look folks gen AI videos are out in the wild so if you weren't already being careful about sharing rage bait videos then now is a great time to start
If you can't trace a video back to a trusted source then I recommend leaving it where it is, like a slice of bologna you found on the street
If you can't trace a video back to a trusted source then I recommend leaving it where it is, like a slice of bologna you found on the street
November 2, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Really important advice.
And if you insist on posting these things or keeping them up after you've been informed they're fake, that's going to be a quick block.
"Well, it could be true!" It's not.
"Well, you can imagine." Nope.
"Well, they do it!" Yeah, no.
And if you insist on posting these things or keeping them up after you've been informed they're fake, that's going to be a quick block.
"Well, it could be true!" It's not.
"Well, you can imagine." Nope.
"Well, they do it!" Yeah, no.
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I agree, adding that I’m very concerned about its effects on adult brains too. I think it’s much more psychologically dangerous to interact with an LLM designed to reflect your own ideas back flatteringly than to post on social media, where someone will always be ready to call you a c***
I personally am significantly more worried about the effects of LLMs and AI video slop on children’s brain development than I am about even social media. I am very worried that our school systems and laws are pushing kids toward AI artificial “friends” while banning social apps.
Yeah I think there are going to be more families who do the equivalent of “we don’t own a TV, we simply all sing madrigals around the piano by candlelight for entertainment” during these next decades. There isn’t a safe amount of AI slop for kids to be exposed to. So if a platform has it: then no.
October 29, 2025 at 7:06 AM
I agree, adding that I’m very concerned about its effects on adult brains too. I think it’s much more psychologically dangerous to interact with an LLM designed to reflect your own ideas back flatteringly than to post on social media, where someone will always be ready to call you a c***
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“A self-help book for rampant individualists.” YES YES YES.
Fantastic column about non fiction without any facts in @theobserveruk.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/news/columni...
Fantastic column about non fiction without any facts in @theobserveruk.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/news/columni...
The Let Them Theory may be ‘non-fiction’ but it has no facts
Mel Robbins’s bestseller has sold seven million copies and even been anointed by Oprah, but it’s the worst kind of advice for young women
observer.co.uk
October 26, 2025 at 8:55 AM
“A self-help book for rampant individualists.” YES YES YES.
Fantastic column about non fiction without any facts in @theobserveruk.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/news/columni...
Fantastic column about non fiction without any facts in @theobserveruk.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/news/columni...
“A self-help book for rampant individualists.” YES YES YES.
Fantastic column about non fiction without any facts in @theobserveruk.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/news/columni...
Fantastic column about non fiction without any facts in @theobserveruk.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/news/columni...
The Let Them Theory may be ‘non-fiction’ but it has no facts
Mel Robbins’s bestseller has sold seven million copies and even been anointed by Oprah, but it’s the worst kind of advice for young women
observer.co.uk
October 26, 2025 at 8:55 AM
“A self-help book for rampant individualists.” YES YES YES.
Fantastic column about non fiction without any facts in @theobserveruk.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/news/columni...
Fantastic column about non fiction without any facts in @theobserveruk.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/news/columni...
Been a bit behind on my listening, but caught up onlast few weeks of @beebwatch.bsky.social while batch cooking yesterday PM.
There’s another one out today, shining a vital light on broadcasting.
By people who love the industry, but also hold it to account.
podfollow.com/beebwatch/view
There’s another one out today, shining a vital light on broadcasting.
By people who love the industry, but also hold it to account.
podfollow.com/beebwatch/view
Roger Bolton's Beeb Watch
Roger Bolton, formerly presenter of BBC Radio 4's 'Feedback' launches his very first podcast. Free from the constraints of broadcasting on the BBC, with a few more opinions and casting his net a ...
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October 22, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Been a bit behind on my listening, but caught up onlast few weeks of @beebwatch.bsky.social while batch cooking yesterday PM.
There’s another one out today, shining a vital light on broadcasting.
By people who love the industry, but also hold it to account.
podfollow.com/beebwatch/view
There’s another one out today, shining a vital light on broadcasting.
By people who love the industry, but also hold it to account.
podfollow.com/beebwatch/view
Am absolutely open mouthed at this.
The most cost-effective improvement to how people feel about the NHS would be to improve the way it communicates (and I know it’s a multi-headed monster). One-sided is exactly right atm. See this bonkers letter I had over a year ago, headed “You have an appointment” (“…not a genuine appointment”)…
October 20, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Am absolutely open mouthed at this.
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I've been doing talks on state of UK news industry for organisations* and they keep saying it's so hard to get a message distributed, let alone talked about? Mass audience gone to video, old media won't carry stuff, Twitter decaying without an equivalent replacement.
*If you want to book me, email!
*If you want to book me, email!
October 17, 2025 at 6:43 AM
I've been doing talks on state of UK news industry for organisations* and they keep saying it's so hard to get a message distributed, let alone talked about? Mass audience gone to video, old media won't carry stuff, Twitter decaying without an equivalent replacement.
*If you want to book me, email!
*If you want to book me, email!