Recommended websites

  • Bristol Editor An insightful joy about the relationship between hacks and PRs.
  • Byrne baby, Byrne Colin Byrne is the leading hippy PR suit writing on the communication business.
  • Catherine Sweet Catherine is always prepared to be provocative. She’s a PR professional, communicator, teacher, novelist, American living in Britain.
  • Charlie Beckett's POLIS Journalism and society think tank with insights galore from the London School of Economics.
  • Communication Ammo Sean Williams combines practical PR nous and know-how with academic insight that’s hard to beat.
  • Craig Pearce One of the very top and most thoughtful PR bloggers who is game for a constructive debate.
  • David Gergen's Voice Commentator, editor, teacher, public servant, best-selling author and adviser to presidents.
  • Edit30 Good PR blog with insight for business communicators.
  • Flowing Motion Clever insightful social media-type blog.
  • FT's Wolf Forum Unbeatable mainstream-media blog on economic issues.
  • Futures-Diagnosis Norman Lewis has produced one of the best thought leadership blogs on internet, IT and innovation related social issues.
  • Gavin Carter One of the US’s top PR thinkers and writers, and an occasional contributor to 21st-Century PR Issues.
  • Greenbanana Heather Yaxley is among the sharpest – and most nuanced – PR bloggers on the block.
  • Holmes Report blogs Paul Holmes and Arun Sudhaman provide up-to-date news, challenging comment and advice on PR topics.
  • Ian Dury and the Blockheads Ian Dury was profane but never obscene and I’m proud to call myself a diehard fan.
  • Institute of Ideas Positioning Enlightenment ideas for today…They see it as a battle. And their annual Battle of Ideas conference is awesome.
  • Intelligence Squared Home of great debates on TV and radio and in front of savvy audiences…
  • May Day, May Day… CSR robustly defended by a sincere advocate.
  • Mediations Philip Young muses engagingly on public relations, journalism, social media and communication ethics.
  • Murphy's Law One of the best PR blogs.
  • Natasha Tobin Smart PR with a breezy style who makes a positive contribution to our trade’s affairs.
  • Neville Hobson Classic and leading social media consultant. He’s engaged in lively and entertaining debate with me about our differences on the essence of PR and social media and the nature of business.
  • New Culture Forum Cool stuff – challenging cultural relativism from the right.
  • No Spin PR A PR blog talking sense.
  • Not A Faster Horse James Warren over at Webershandwick ponders the future.
  • PR Conversations A vibrant PR blogging gem that was founded by Toni Muzi Falconi and which is now edited by two of its contributors, Judy Gombita and Heather Yaxley.
  • PR Nigeria Insight into Lagos PR and Nigerian life.
  • PR Studies Richard’s Bailey’s excellent and regularly updated blog that’s focused – though not exclusively – on PR educational topics.
  • Proof – reading journalism & society Its mission is to show the true worth – and direction – of journalism for the 21st century. It is a site that flacks and hacks should treasure.
  • Reason Magazine Original and challenging thoughts from provocative free minds that favour free markets.
  • ReputationXchange Smarts on reputations and crisis management.
  • Richard D North Talented, complicated conservative, and a bit hippy and arty round the edges. Currently working on poems, a memoir and a one-man show. Over all that is an increasing interest in the idea of spirituality.
  • SixtySecondView Short sharp comment on PR, media and politics from one of our trade’s top bosses.
  • Spiked-Online Contrarian culture warriors defending Humanism, Karl Marx and John Stuart Mill.
  • Standpoint magazine Savvy, insightful right-wing cultural and political magazine published by Social Affairs Unit.
  • Stuart Bruce Stuart Bruce strips social media PR of its hype and pompousness.
  • Teaching PR Great hub for PR blog junkies.
  • The Daily Dog Blogs Bulldog reporter’s best pick of PR bloggers and much more…
  • The Economist If ever I were stuck with the same fate as Robinson Crusoe, this would be the weekly magazine that I’d miss most.
  • The Good, The Bad, The Spin Rare insight on crisis managment and much more.
  • The Great Seduction The future with a twist – Andrew Keen is a star.
  • The Intangibles Top PR blog by H&K’s Boyd Neil based in Canada. He expresses strong views well and sometimes we clash.
  • The Marple Leaf A journalistic random collection of local musings and personal obsessions.
  • The PR Blog Educated, considered PR blog, a rare gem in the PR world.
  • The Rational Optimist Matt Ridley sounds off and does so rationally.
  • The Social Affairs Unit Unconventional conservative think tank with a great pool of insightful contributors.
  • The World Business Council for Sustainable Development Best practice, leadership and realistic environmentalism producing ideas PRs cannot ignore.
  • The Zurich Salon This new initiative provides a public space to explore differences of opinion and levels of agreement on the most contentious issues of our time. And I’m its President.
  • Waxing Unlyrical Shonali Burke sets the PR standard when it comes to networking and winning influence on SM among peers. She says hers is a personal, possibly poetic, musing on public relations, media, communications, and everything in between…
  • Weekly Standard American cool and civil political journal that acts as a clearinghouse for the GOP’s ideas and direction.
  • West Ham United Football Club I’m from Elm Park, if you couldn’t tell. WHUFC reminds me of my East End and Essex roots.