The TNKR Media team offer their suggestions to get around news blocking Canada’s 0nline New$ @ct (Bill C-Eight33n) is leading to some pretty strange, desperate publishing trends… especially on F—book and the Gram, two networks whose parent company quickly blocked Canadian news to avoid the federal government’s forthcoming 4% link tax. If you’re wondering why…
“This is the DJ 3000,” the KBBL talk radio manager explains to perplexed announcers in a seminal scene in an early episode of The Simpsons. “It plays CDs automatically, and it has three distinct varieties of inane chatter.” “Looks like those clowns in Congress did it again!” said DJ 3000. “How does he keep up…
The effects of a pandemic have completely reshaped the way we communicate, from branding to employee engagement – what can newsletters do for you? The rapidly changing landscape of communications and the need to communicate timely, reassuring information to clients, customers and staff alike have been recurring themes in this space lately. It’s time to…
Lockdowns. Winter. Fear. Uncertainty. Lack of motivation. Political buffoonery. All things considered, no one could ever criticize you for feeling helpless and frustrated right now.
In these difficult times, in the midst of a deadly pandemic, during this unprecedented crisis and in the age of COVID-19; not only are we fed up with the state of affairs, but the language we use to talk about is getting pretty tiresome as well.
TNKR Media is pleased to have Christipher Paré join our team of senior consultants. He is a former producer with Bell Media and communications director of an international nonprofit. You can reach Christopher at pare@tnkr.media. If you’ve found yourself in the throes of a crisis situation, you know how paralyzing it can feel. Especially if…
Bonnie Feigenbaum is Senior Consultant, Public Affairs with TNKR Media, as well as a business communications instructor at Montreal’s McGill University. She is the former chief of staff to a federal member of parliament and town councillor in Hampstead, Quebec. If you are a business leader and want to get the attention of government, following…
When time is ticking, and the sword of Damocles hangs over your beaded brow, formality tends to go out the window. The speed of news and current affairs is unrelenting, and the need to connect with a journalist or news outlet – in that moment – tends to overwhelm, sometimes leaving little room for nuance…
The past few years have seen me transition from traditional marketing and administrative roles to the topsy-turvy world of PR. This has been a move not without its share of culture shocks, but the one that’s made me cock my head is how, in this field, workaholism seems to be a sort of social currency.
Polling is an integral part of political storytelling. The news of who’s up and who’s down, who’s ahead and who’s gaining ground drives the narrative of much of our news. But what happens when polling is wrong or miscalibrated? If polls aren’t a true reflection of reality, then we’re doing a great deal of damage…