Well, the oil crisis has now come to this - more and more people in the UK are running out of petrol. Britannia Rescue says rising fuel prices have led to 340,000 drivers running out of fuel in the three months to July 2008, a jump of 10% over the previou...

I tell all my media training courses that going off-the-record with journalists is possibly the dumbest thing you can do with the news media. Journalists are trained to repeat and report what they’re told so why anyone in their right mind would given th...

The mass media might not agree with this but they are merely the conduit through to the general public. And that public has a real love affair with the word 'sorry', so why not use it when you have to in any media encounter In my country, Australia, we...

People often make mistakes when they're faced with a media interview. I've been on both sides of the fence, as a journalist and a media trainer, and here are my top ten mistakes. 1. Not believing that it's your interview as well. Thinking that it's pur...

How is that phrase, "going forward"? Isn't it a beauty? You can't go backwards so why use the phrase in the first place. As a media trainer, I know why people use stuff like that - to feel more important. But, guess what? Both the media and the public abs...

You may know that it's better to be strong in any media encounter rather than weak. But, did you know that it also can pay off to be helpful at the same time. And this applies before, during and after the actual interview with the journalist. The actua...

Most people get terrified if the media want to interview them for a news, current affairs or magazine program. These can be on television or radio, or be in print or on the internet. However, it's the television or radio interview that get's the blood cur...

Have you ever heard the phrase: "Has anyone here got any questions to go with my answers?" Well the former US Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, used to say that to throngs of journalists in the 1970s when he strode into media conferences. It's that min...