�This Morning� this morning. Invited on to �This Morning� with the smart n savvy Lorraine Kelly and Philip Schofield. �All Human Life Is There� the News of the World used to emblazon across its masthead. Well, Rupert Murdoch�s editors may have lowered their sights, but not the ITV pantechnicon that is This Morning. There�s more […]
NOT ENOUGH COOKS
A pleasure to meet up with Robin Cook MP, the distinguished member for Livingston, former Foreign Secretary, and notorious racing enthusiast. The occasion was the Oldie Literary lunch in Edinburgh yesterday, which I was hosting on behalf of our clients Swan Hellenic. Other guests included the travel writer Charlie Connelly, author of ‘Attention All Shipping’. […]
Return of the Governor and defence of the soundbite
Go back a few weeks. The polls said the nation suspected the Prime Minister of having deceived its representatives in the House of Commons. The polls said we believed he had deliberately misled us over Iraqi munitions to get some urgency into ‘our’ support for George W. Bush’s Middle Eastern expedition, and get the sacking […]
Borkowski at Guardian seminar on music file-sharing
“The MusicAlly debate: PR and P2P – the perfect anti-piracy pitch” on Monday September 13, 2004 from 6.00pm at the Guardian Newsroom, London, EC1. Sponsored by the Guardian, Guardian Unlimited and the Observer, the panel discussion will hear three top advertising, PR and marketing executives – Tim Duffy, the head of M&C Saatchi, Interbrand boss […]
Do journalists necessarily make good PR's?
The Media Column: ‘Journalists are always among those most ready to sneer at PR’ by Bill Hagerty ‘Mark Borkowski, who runs the PR company of the same name and has recently been presenting Son of Barnum, a one-man show on publicity and publicists, is not convinced that good journalists necessarily make good PRs.’ http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/media/story.jsp?story=554501
MARK BORKOWSKI – SON OF BARNUM EDINBURGH – INDEPENDENT REVIEW:
Mark Borkowski: Son of Barnum Assembly Rooms EDINBURGH – INDEPENDENT REVIEW: This canter through the history and application of publicity stunts is more a lecture and slide-show than a one-man show and anyone considering getting up in time to catch Son of Barnum should definitely bring a notebook. From his own career, Borkowski picks out […]
Fuming over ban
Fuming over ban THE Fringe�s reputation for cutting-edge performance art is being jeopardised by the council�s “hysterical” attitude to health and safety, it was claimed today. Performer Mark Borkowski launched a scathing attack on city officials after being refused permission to use a chainsaw in his act at the council-owned Assembly Rooms. http://news.scotsman.com/archive.cfm?id=951392004
FCUK, off: fashion label decides to rest 'tired' logo
FCUK, off: fashion label decides to rest ‘tired’ logo Independent – London,England,UK … The publicist Mark Borkowski said the new promotion was a way to refresh the label in the face of competitors who were imitating the original campaign. … http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=551885
Mark Borkowski – Son Of Barnum review: ‘The Standard’ 12 August 2004
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Son of Barnum: A Stunt Too Far the first review in todays Scotsman
SCOTSMAN http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/reviews.cfm?id=925692004 Son of Barnum: A Stunt Too Far KATE COPSTICK ASSEMBLY ROOMS (Venue 3) “I AM not,” says the cherubically charming Mark Borkowski, “a PR guru. I am a publicist.” But not a practitioner of what, in his final, admirably hard-hitting section, he calls “the art of the dark publicist”. Borkowski is Gandalf to […]
PR stunts: an expert's guide
PR stunts: an expert’s guide How do you sell tickets to your show? Make up a strange, tragic story and then sell it to the press. Mark Borkowski explains Myths and legends abound about who did what to promote which show at the Edinburgh Fringe. You can get away with things during these three weeks […]
Experts' verdict on Faria's TV tears
Mark Borkowski, head of the Borkowski PR agency, praised the way Ms Alam’s public image had been handled and the way she came across. “The programme obviously really wanted the chance to interview her, so the situation could be managed to her advantage,” Mr Borkowski said. “Any time there was a difficult question the way […]
'Me' generation takes Fringe by storm
‘Me’ generation takes Fringe by storm Real-life tales of success, excess and misfortune are taking over this year, irking professional comics Other unlikely Fringe performers whose talks draw heavily on their own lives are Simon Donald, the co-creator of Viz comic, leading PR man Mark Borkowski, American news anchor Bob Wiltfong, and Colin Hay, the […]
More rambling about the FA
GIBSON’S lesson for PRs on how not to score own goals Telegraph.co.uk – London,England,UK … Mark Borkowski, another celebrity publicist, says the horsetrading tends to be more common in City, showbusiness, politics and features, where the journalists … www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/08/05/nmed05.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/08/05/ixhome.html
Ideas man championing former PR geniuses such as Jim Moran. who once sold a fridge to an Eskimo.
There’s no such thing as bad publicity AIDAN SMITH T WAS another go-on-impress-me day on the Festival desk of the Edinburgh Evening News and, really, for a hack of such tender years, I was carrying far too much cynicism in the pockets of my copy of a Paul Smith pinstriped double-breaster. These were the 1980s […]
His one-man show, Son of Barnum: A Stunt Too Far, runs at the Assembly Rooms from August 10. He recounts great publicity stunts
Edinburgh festival: Let�s talk about me now Real people are invading the stages with their life stories, says Stephen Armstrong Mark Borkowski, on the other hand, has a very successful career as one of the country�s top publicists. His one-man show, Son of Barnum: A Stunt Too Far, runs at the Assembly Rooms from August […]
CIA's favorite PR firm, "the Rendon Group is playing a major behind-the-scenes role at the Democratic National Convention
CIA’S FAVORITE PR FIRM, RENDON GROUP, ROCKS THE DNC http://www.odwyerpr.com/members/0726rendon.htm The CIA’s favorite PR firm, “the Rendon Group is playing a major behind-the-scenes role at the Democratic National Convention in Boston, arranging first-time/real-time video broadcasts each morning to each of the 56 caucuses, serving as the event’s project manager, and coordinating 20 convention-related events, Rick […]
Son of Barnum continues
Mark Borkowski, Publicist Borkowski, who staged the biggest custard-pie fight ever in the Millennium Dome (3,312 pies in two minutes), has set himself a challenge on a par with making a romance about estate agents. His one-man show will proclaim that we should think of publicists as heroes. Son of Barnum: A Stunt Too Far […]