Flight SUZ1 crash: a horrible thing – a text book response The Beech B200 Super King Air never even got beyond the airfield perimeter By Jonathan Spencer
Words up against optics… cutting through the distraction I recall only the visuals – because they are unexpected, unfamiliar or extraordinary By Jonathan Spencer
Trump 2.0: navigating a sea change in US posture Most people living today don’t know a world without a US strategic backstop By Jonathan Spencer
Into the light – transparency matters So you think there is quite a leap from the pool or track to crisis communications… By Jonathan Spencer
Fact-checking: a word about pictures The news business is about being first and accurate – or not wrong for long By Jonathan Spencer
Amazon or Red Sea: big stories, two approaches Commercial ships, more often than not, can appear as pawns in the game By Jonathan Spencer
Green economy – so how is it going with hydrogen? Navigating this space and its challenges is UK ship owner and operator, Carisbrooke Shipping By Jonathan Spencer
Broken news As one commentator put it: “This is what happens when UK media culture loses perspective” By Jonathan Spencer
Impartiality v free speech – if you don’t want to know the score then look away now Impartially is a high bar; for the BBC it is right up there with trust – much like a company values reputation if it is to safeguard the brand By Jonathan Spencer
A world without news – stay in touch or go fish? The world passes us by whether we are in tune with it not By Jonathan Spencer
No mistake – a midsummer pipe dream Mistakes are integral to this life. It is what humans do…. and a pipe dream, to imagine a world without mistakes? By Jonathan Spencer
Truth under fire Freedom of speech is threatened – frankly, tied up and thrown in the trunk of the car. By Jonathan Spencer
An oil spill to shock America – the differences in decades First-hand recollections from our man on-the-ground at the time. By Jonathan Spencer
Quarantine – or a slow boat to China? Tensions surface when hopes for shore leave fade. By Jonathan Spencer
A new normal – are all your staff media aware? The interactive content puts participants in the zone of handling that difficult call By Jonathan Spencer
When the drama fuels a crisis… Like it wasn’t enough juggling the lifting of pandemic restrictions… There had to be something else By Jonathan Spencer
Medals – and gold-standard messages Knowing just what to say in the moment is no lesser accomplishment By Jonathan Spencer
What are we trying to say? The description helps because your idea of a big ship may differ from mine By Jonathan Spencer
Free speech …at a cost We don’t have the unrestricted liberty to say anything we want By Jonathan Spencer
For those in peril… The industry is urged to continue to fight. Many would of course fight for themselves, had they the voice or the audience By Jonathan Spencer
What are you waiting for? The intention is there, but with the best will in the world things distract us By Jonathan Spencer
Background noise If I’m thinking about the background, I am probably not listening to what they’re saying …the background is more interesting By Jonathan Spencer
Lambs to the slaughter Statistics – every one of them a life – can be double-counted, time-lagged or even wrongly adjusted By Jonathan Spencer
Cyber ships: the noise from Brazil Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand… for this was a witch-hunt for cyber ships that pass in the night. By Jonathan Spencer
The best of the blog For those of you that missed them, here’s a digest of some of the most popular themes. By Jonathan Spencer
When in Rome: the nuance in the narrative A furore for this polymath of Pisa, it was. A fandango that today might mirror a Twitter storm. By Jonathan Spencer
Triton – messenger or mermaid, be you tough enough for training? The tempo of reaction is central to Triton’s simulation By Jonathan Spencer
Public domain Information passes into the public domain far more easily now we are consumed by sources and platforms to fog the impact, never mind the camera eye. By Jonathan Spencer
Spokespeople – do you have what it takes? Job descriptions can boast bottomless competencies listed for any role – desired or essential… By Jonathan Spencer
