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Issues Management [ish-oo or, especially Brit., is-yoo, man-ij-muhnt ] - Noun: Issues Management is the practice of working with socio-political issues for the advantage of an organisation. Encompasses lobbying and the wider communications tools of a campaigner, but also focuses in at the organisation itself to understand what may need to change internally as well as seeking to influence the external world.


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  • EuroFish TV: “TV about fish, for fish, made by fish”

    EU Commissioner Damanaki tweeted our first episode of EuroFishTV to over 2000 people this week. There are few policy areas more complex than the EU’s Common Fisheries Policy. Hence, the public rarely pays attention. Here is our effort to make it simple – to make the message travel further. Read more…

  • I say oil sands, you say tar sands

    On the Comment Visions series, HLC chairman Simon Bryceson discusses Canadian oil/tar sands, Europe’s fuel quality Directive, and the intensifying battle between the energy industry and the environment movement. Simon argues that both parties will invest more into competitive communications on this issue than is currently expected, because neither side can afford to lose. Read more…

  • FDR and lobbying…

    In Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s words, the importance of communicating messages which resonate with the public in addition to talking to policy elites with long words. Read more…

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