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Amazon launches campaign with PinkNews to boost inclusive education in schools

Stuart Mitchell

Amazon has launched a campaign in partnership with global publisher PinkNews to boost inclusion in schools by celebrating the importance of teaching LGBT+ diversity through literacy. The campaign launched on Thursday, July 4 with the roll out of Amazon’s LGBT+ Reading Roadshow, the UK’s first ever UK-wide LGBT+ reading programme. Designed for secondary schools, the roadshow combines inclusivity workshops with the provision of free books and PinkNews merchandise for schools around the UK. This element of the programme is fronted by the campaigner and musician Will Young and is presented…

Reporters Without Borders Germany and Serviceplan turn the fonts of shut down newspapers into symbols of press freedom

Stuart Mitchell

More and more media organizations are censored or closed and journalists arrested. These are drastic measures taken by oppressive regimes to limit freedom of press. As a reaction Reporters without Borders Germany launched the campaign  ‘Fonts for Freedom’, conceived by Serviceplan Campaign Hamburg to turn the fonts of prohibited newspapers into symbols of press freedom.  Reporters Without Borders Germany reconstructed the house fonts of 9 newspapers banned by governments in Turkey, Azerbaijan, Vietnam, Cambodia, Tanzania, Hungary and Russia. Countries with a track record of suppressing freedom of press. The fonts…

PRCA & CIPR responds to disinformation and “fake news” report

Stuart Mitchell

Responding to the Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport Committee’s final report on disinformation and “fake news”, Francis Ingham MPRCA, Director General, PRCA, said: “PR and Communications is an industry rightly concerned with disinformation and ‘fake news’: our commitment to deal fairly and honestly underpins everything that we do. “As the Government said in the wake of the Bell Pottinger case: ‘the UK has a world-leading system of professional standards and industry-specific codes of conduct, which we encourage British companies to uphold in their operations domestically and overseas. Our industry bodies…

IPA reacts to DCMS Report on Disinformation and Fake News

Stuart Mitchell

The IPA fully advocates the DCMS proposal for a public and searchable repository – something it called for in its written evidence to the Select Committee back in July – to aid transparency of online political advertising. This will provide recipients with relevant information to allow them to identify the source of the ad, who uploaded it, who sponsored it, and its country of origin. The IPA also supports the recommendations made by the Electoral Commission to the DCMS for imprints to show the sponsor of the ad. To ensure…

The Foolitzer Prizes Shine the Spotlight on Fake News

Stuart Mitchell

Brazil combats misinformation by awarding the year’s worst fake news. “Fake news” has been featured prominently in the world lately. Now the Brazilian website E-farsas—literally “e-farces”—is doing something about it. Together with Leo Burnett Tailor Made, E-farsas has launched The Foolitzer Prizes. A nod to the famous Pulitzer Prize, which honors achievements in journalism, the Foolitzers were created to acknowledge the worst fake news of the year. The awards’ intention is to give the creators of fake news what they don’t want: the spotlight. For the inaugural awards, E-farsas curated…