PR scandals or crises: while they make great headlines in the newspaper, they can leave a company in a PR frenzy. Most PR pros do everything in their power to avoid a scandal, but that is not always possible. Many companies have come under fire in recent years such as Pepsi, Uber and most notably […]

When carrying out Media Relations, press releases are still one of the main ways the media generate news. As a Communications/PR Pro your objective is to get your message to appear in the media unchanged. For this to happen, your press release must read the same way as a news story. It might seem obvious, but […]

All image copyrights belong to rollingnews.ie © This day 20 years ago I got my big break. I was 25 years of age. On January 4, 1999 I started working as the Party Press Officer for the Progressive Democrats. I was plucked from obscurity and thrust into a three and a half year rollercoaster ride that […]

We know that PR and Communications teams are busy people. Balancing client work, events, managing media relations and your public image is no easy feat. Ireland’s best PR teams use MediaHQ every day to make the news. We want to share what makes their PR and media relations efforts so successful and how they get […]

Sending out press releases can be a tricky business. Thinking of an eye-catching story headline, a snappy email subject line, researching the story and reaching out to people for quotes can be time-consuming. You send it out to the media in the hopes it will get picked up, and even then it’s still not guaranteed. […]

Here at MediaHQ, we’ve seen 175,000 individual stories being shared through our press release platform since we first came into existence. From government departments to PR agencies and national charities, we have some of Ireland’s biggest organisations on our client book.