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