Chris Baker

PR & Social | Corporate & B2B @SpeedComms @TheMISSIONGroup | Board @TS_Studios | Advocate for creativity and media literacy

[Chris Baker @chrisatspeed]

Very astute take on what is at stake here. This is not just a crisis for the BBC.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

NEW: The entire BBC news cycle is an abject lesson in the disaster economics of information.

This isn’t just a news story. It’s a teachable example of real-time information collapse. We can’t fix that but we can & must save the BBC.
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[Chris Baker @chrisatspeed]

@johnmitchinson Very sorry to hear that this is where it ended John, but you have indeed made many wonderous books along the way. Hoping that those authors caught in the throes can find new homes for theirs.

[Element Six @ElementSix_]

Work with your brain, not against it! 🧠

Dr Stephanie Liggins, Product Development Lead at Element Six, shares her insights in the latest @StylistMagazine article, ‘10 tips for training your focus, from women who concentrate for a living’.

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

We’re going to hear lots of stories about which people, policies and rhetoric are to blame for the Democrats’ defeat.

Some of those stories may even be true!

But an underrated factor is that 2024 was an absolutely horrendous year for incumbents around the world 👇

[Chris Baker @chrisatspeed]

If Google's AI Overview can't even get this right (wrong date, wrong day of the week), what hope have we got?

[Chris Baker @chrisatspeed]

I've rounded up my favourite work, business and PR podcasts over on @LinkedIn. What are yours? 🎙🎧 https://t.co/qgtd3Xvv8Q

[Chris Baker @chrisatspeed]

Time to move?

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

Striking how Musk’s post saying civil war was inevitable in the UK due to immigration prompted a sudden and large migration from X to BlueSky in Britain.

User numbers for BlueSky remain far smaller than for X, but I’d say most of the UK commentariat has now moved across.

[Chris Baker @chrisatspeed]

"...there is still little acknowledgment that what we are witnessing is part of a global phenomenon – ­rising populism and authoritarianism underpinned by deep-rooted structural changes in communication."

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

This week’s riots aren’t happening in a vacuum. We’re living and breathing on platforms that billionaires have optimised for outrage. This is the world that social media made.

My piece for @ObserverUK with contributions from the great @mariaressa + more

https://t.co/o0fPgFTeJR

[Chris Baker @chrisatspeed]

"There’s plenty of profits in the UK but not enough investment... It is very important for the wealth fund not to socialise risk and privatise rewards, which is how the current kind of UK capitalist system works.” https://t.co/F0ckPG3SIl

[Chris Baker @chrisatspeed]

@SirTerenceBoot Done :)

[Chris Baker @chrisatspeed]

@janeacton_pr @frankcottrell_b That's what I thought of when I heard this Jane! 🙂

[Chris Baker @chrisatspeed]

Brilliant thread on a topic that hasn't had enough airtime in the last month.

[Natalie Hanman @NatalieHanman]

On the @guardian environment desk, we've tried to get the climate and nature crisis into the UK election debate - to help our audience understand that they are voting for the future, and to hold politicians to account. Here are some key pieces:

[Natalie Hanman @NatalieHanman]

On the @guardian environment desk, we've tried to get the climate and nature crisis into the UK election debate - to help our audience understand that they are voting for the future, and to hold politicians to account. Here are some key pieces:

[Chris Baker @chrisatspeed]

@naomirwolf Did you open your eyes last time you were in London? It has barely changed. Bloomsbury is still there, but funnily enough it's not like it was 100 years ago.

[Institute of Business Ethics @IBEUK]

📣Lauren Branston is IBE’s #newCEO from Sep 24. Lauren has delivered positive change on social & environmental issues in her career. @doctorianp notes “Her expertise will advance IBE’s mission to promote sustainable #business & champion #ethics.”
https://t.co/MIO6uq2KvG

[Chris Baker @chrisatspeed]

Wow, 15 years on Twitter/X!

Would mean much more if I still used the platform as much as I used to. Do you?

#MyXAnniversary

[Chris Baker @chrisatspeed]

Proud of our colleagues at @LivityUK @themissiongroup for their part in this UK Gov @MediaSmartUK campaign to educate young people about online fraud. Definitely work that counts! https://t.co/6kZ3OrZHZ1

[Chris Baker @chrisatspeed]

Seasonal fact of the day!

[Ash Sarkar @AyoCaesar]

If you wanted to *affordably* rent a one bedroom flat in London (i.e. housing costs don't take up more than 30% of income), you'd have to earn over £75,000 a year (this graph shows USD).

That's nuts, and yet we've normalised it.