To raise awareness of the launch of the ‘The Grand Tour’ series on Amazon, TNR was commissioned to produce video footage for an edited package for online media, B-Roll for broadcasters and photography which captured the giant statue heads of presenters Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond returning home to the UK after travelling 30,000 miles across 3 continents.
“It’s Game Over for Big Sam” (The i), “Shaming of England Boss” (Daily Mirror), “Humiliation for England” (The Times). Today’s excruciating newspaper headlines were inevitable after the departure of Sam Allardyce in disgrace last night, in the wake of undercover reporting by the Daily Telegraph. The paper alleged (with accompanying video footage) that the England manager negotiated a £400,000 business deal, despite his multi-million pound salary, and, most damaging of all, appeared to advise ‘businessmen’ on how to get around Football Association rules banning third party ownership of players. Like many a media crisis before this one, and endless such crises to come, the personal disgrace of an individual can, if well managed, can mitigate the threat to the reputation of an entire organisation and help to repair and strengthen that reputation.
We held another fantastic Meet the Media breakfast event at the Press Association HQ in Victoria recently. The event was an enormous success, with PR and communications executives from across London gathering to listen to our expert panel of speakers and to network over breakfast.
