With the media hacking scandals on both sides of the Atlantic, raising serious questions about global ethical standards in journalism, Simon Cohen, from the UK, explores a new paradigm of communications, and challenges the conventional wisdom that good news doesn’t sell.
He points to a new, humanizing model for communications – Communications with Conscience – which he argues can be a source of profit for a mainstream media sector in crisis, and a source of hope for tackling our planet’s most pressing problems. Cohen challenges us to join a noble war on error, look behind the headlines of the media hacking scandal, and look to ourselves for the most inspiring media of all. Love and compassion, he says, is the ultimate competitive advantage in an otherwise murky media world.
Simon Cohen is a media ethics maverick. In 2003, at the age of 24, Simon founded Global Tolerance, a leading international PR and communications agency that promotes ‘communications with conscience.’
A champion of ‘Personal Relations‘, media values and responsibility, Simon and his team only work with people and organizations committed to positive social change. Simon has managed the media and PR for many of the most notable social figures in the world, including HH Dalai Lama, Gandhi’s grandson – as well as representing Wallace & Gromit and the Jedi Knights!
Simon is a prolific speaker on media values and culture and is a familiar face at conferences around the world including the World Economic Forum, Universal Forum of Cultures, TEDx, UNESCO, and the Parliament of the World’s Religions. He is a regular commentator on the state of the media in the international broadcast media. As a freelance journalist, Simon has written for Newsweek/Washington Post, the BBC, The Times, The Guardian, USA Today and the Huffington Post. Simon is also a regular contributor to the most popular radio show in the UK, Chris Evan’s Breakfast Show on BBC Radio 2.
A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Simon is an award winning social entrepreneur, and has been recognized on numerous occasions as one of the most influential people in the PR and media industry. In 2010, Simon was awarded as an Interfaith Visionary by the Temple of Understanding, the world’s oldest interfaith organisation, for his pioneering work in generating positive media coverage related to faith and culture.
Simon is passionate about personal integrity, his family (especially his nephew), dancing, and his pink sequined suit. He can be followed on Twitter at www.twitter.com/globaltolerance