Adrian King
…Never knowingly oversold
With more than 25 years’ senior level PR communications experience, Adrian is the supreme media guru and copywriter.
He has an incredible talent for translating complex client commentary into journalist-friendly copy and his success with the national print and broadcast media is extraordinary. A stickler for accuracy (particularly grammar and punctuation), he is the male version of Lynn Truss.
He can turn his hand to almost everything, but he has particular expertise in handling assignments for financial institutions and corporates, professional services firms and professional bodies. His clients have included Close Brothers Private Equity, Hymans Robertson, Miller Insurance, S J Berwin (and many other UK/international law firms), The House of Lords, BAA, Fluor, SNCF and the CBI.
- Education: B.A. (Hons) Archaeology (Durham University)
- Hobbies: Obsessed with England’s success on the cricket field
- Favourite films: My Life as a Dog, The Ladykillers (the Ealing Comedies original!)
- Favourite book: anything by Saki or Arthur Koestler
- Favourite Media: Radio 4 – In Our Time, Radio 3 – Night Waves
- Proudest moments: Finding someone to marry me and having my son
- Favourite media coup: Securing (over a two year period) extensive national / international print and broadcast media coverage for an arcane art-historical story;The House of Lords’ Armada Tapestries project.
Pressure Chamber
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Guest post: The Last Laugh: Women and Work
I work for a company (Flagship’s US partner, Peppercom) that is known as much for its hard work as it is for its hard play. From Kangoo lessons at work to relentless e-mail banter to jovial pranks (not sure if co-founder Ed Moed, who was photo shopped onto David Beckham’s underwear ad, would call his
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Should we be forced to hire British?
Imagine! You are at the race course, the pressure is on, the horses are in the ring and the ground is in top form. Now it is up to you. Based on all the information you have – performance, track record, appearance, training and attitude – you have to choose which one you think will
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Snap to it with Instagram
Suddenly, everyone’s a photographer. Retro inspired shots of door handles and street scenes litter my twitter, and Facebook’s just a mélange of sepia snaps. Instagram fever is sweeping the nation, as users take and share photos with their smart phone, using filters to add vintage effects. Originally exclusive to iPhone users, the Android app launched
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#craphashtags
Only three years ago the hash sign suffered a meagre existence. Its purpose unknown to the upcoming generations, hash’s humble façade was seen only as part of an emoticon or on a sheet of music. And then came Twitter. Twitter did for the hash sign what Charlie Sheen did for addiction. Hash (in the tag,
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Conversation – a dying art?
Recently I have been prompted to reflect on the meaning of ‘conversation’ in this digital world, when everyone seems glued to their smart phones and tablets. An example is a recent ‘conversation’ (yes, we did converse face-to-face) with my daughter where I asked if she had spoken to a friend; she responded saying yes, they
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