Mark Knight
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Mark Knight is a board director at the City of London-based PR consultancy Broadgate Mainland http://www.broadgatemainland.com which works in the financial and professional services and higher education sectors. His areas of specialism include corporate sponsorship, crisis management, social and online media and creating and delivering strategic communications programmes.

He has more than twenty years’ experience in managing PR and communication programmes both in-house and as a consultant. A former Army officer, his PR career began with NATO’s Rapid Reaction Force. On leaving the services he worked in-house at Thorn EMI before taking on the role of head of PR at the Financial Times. He became a director at Broadgate Mainland in 2003 having previously run his own PR consultancy.

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Digital Tipping Point for UK National Newspapers

(0) Comments | Posted 3 April 2013 | (16:20)

The announcement made by The Telegraph Group last week to start charging UK readers to access its digital content could mark a tipping point for other UK newspaper publishers.

Following the Telegraph's move other newspaper companies will be no doubt evaluating if it's also time for them to start charging...

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Business and Sport in Union

(0) Comments | Posted 7 November 2012 | (07:41)

In the next few weeks the world's best rugby union nations from the northern and southern hemispheres will entertain sports fans in Great Britain, Ireland and France with a blend of bone crunching aggression, breathtaking agility and silky ball handling skills.

Many companies will use these matches to entertain...

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Corporate Citizenship on the Rise

(1) Comments | Posted 15 February 2012 | (13:04)

Barclays PLC completed a UK corporate first last Friday when the first page of its annual financial results was headlined 'citizenship' and did not mention profits or dividends.

The report highlighted how Barclays contributes to growth in the real economy, what it does for charity, and how it treats customers.

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'Ambush Marketing' Outlawed at London Olympics

(0) Comments | Posted 21 December 2011 | (12:13)

If you are not an official sponsor and are thinking of piggy backing next year's London Olympic Games with a timely promotion, you need to read the rules very carefully to avoid the risk of a heavy fine or even jail.

The most comprehensive and exacting regulations on advertising...

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