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The Public Relations Podcast is more of an experience than a show. Expect a combination of technique discussions, technique news, chats, idea testing, and even campaigning for the comms industry, spread across 1 or more episodes a week of about 10 mins in length. Focused on helping independent PR and comms pros (in-house or agency) punch above their weight when resources are tight. Hosted by former PR, broadcaster, journalist and news editor Richard Midson.More: www.ThePublicRelationsPodcast.com
ThePublicRelationsPodcast hosts The Public Relations Podcast, a business show with 167 episodes published.
Launching a company from stealth sounds exciting. In reality, it’s usually messy, rushed, and full of competing voices. In this episode, Richard Midson is joined by Andrew Healey from Water & Wall (New York) to unpack a
Most AI conversations in PR are theoretical. They talk about where things are going and what you might need to prepare for. This conversation is about what is happening in AI today and how to use it today. In this episod
There is a growing gap between what people think PR jobs need and what agencies and in-house comms teams actually hire for. In this episode, I pause the usual interview format to share some early findings from the resear
Most PR and comms teams say they are “data-driven” Very few actually are. In this episode, Richard Midon is joined by Komal Lath from Tute Consult in Mumbai to talk through how PR work changes when you stop relying purel
Most PR teams have faced this problem. You have a smart client, they know their audience, they want to target that audience directly and rightly so, but the trades just aren't biting at the moment, distracted by other th
PR is changing, and you can see it in the news stories. Cut through the staggering amount of noise in the marketing and PR space and you start to spot a few items that show a genuine shift in the way things are happening
NOTE: This was recorded in late October 2025 AI is already inside the tools you use. Waiting it out is no longer an option. In this episode, I speak with Karen Sutherland, author of Artificial Intelligence for Strategic
AI is already inside every corner of PR and comms, but very few teams have real safeguards in place. In this episode, I sit down with Dr Lukasz Swiatek from UNSW (The University of New South Wales) to talk through the re
I’ve been getting a lot of messages lately from people asking the same thing: “How do I get a job or a better job?" So far in the podcast, I've tended to focus on campaigns people are running, but I also want to do some
"Advertising Value Equivalents" are supposed to be dead, yet CFOs keep asking for them. Meanwhile, clients want backlinks, CMOs want digital metrics, and AI is rewriting the measurement rulebook daily. So how do PR and c
Do you think they ever really cancelled Jimmy Kimmel? Or was it a smart PR move to kill a firestorm? Put the politics aside for a second. Here’s what happened:- - Jimmy Kimmel made comments about Charlie Kirk. - Backlash
“I never planned to become a campaigner…” That’s what George told me. He’s a sports reporter. A good one. But then he tragically lost six-week-old baby. And suddenly, George found himself in the national media pushing fo
Season 9 of The Public Relations Podcast is underway. Soft launch this time. No big fanfare. Just notes from the front line of comms. People I’m helping. Conversations I’m having with other comms pros. Tools I’m testing.
Here is the full version. Helen Barnett (a former UK national news editor) and myself recently tried to use AI to turn a corproate story into something the mass media would use. It wasn't always easy but it did show some
(The short version - The long version will be in Episode 23) Join me and Helen Barnett, a former editor at a national UK newspaper (https://www.helenbarnettmedia.co.uk/), in this special episode of the podcast. Helen and
I want to prove that PR, comms and narrative marketing works in 2025, in (sort of) real-time. But how? I've been thinking about this a lot over the past year. We all know the pressures today:- “Where’s the ROI on comms?”
In this episode, I unpack a real conversation with a PR freelancer trying to pivot into a new sector — and getting knocked back with that brutal line: “You don’t seem like you’ve done this before.” But here’s the twist:
We all know influencers are curating their lives — yet we still buy what they recommend. Why does that emotional trust stick, even when it’s fake? In this episode, I unpack a conversation I had with university students a
Are you getting your "goals" wrong? In the old days of book PR, your goal was to raise awareness in order to sell copies — but not anymore. There’s a new goal. It’s the same in many sectors, where the objective has shift
If you want the truth about where AI is taking PR — and what it’s already capable of today — this is the episode for you. In this episode, I talk to Jeroen Bos — a friend, technologist, and the man leading innovation at
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