Media-Insert Communications

Media-Insert Communications

The blog of Media-Insert Communications – featuring freelance P.R. and journalism links to the work of Graham A. Jarvis.

Editing, Journalism, Copywriting, and Public Relations

Category: Politics

  • Change requires more market liberalisation, less military involvement in the country’s economy and to widen participation in political affairs while giving the private sector a more central role than it has in the Egyptian economy. Such reforms could prove positive by reducing social unrest, attracting foreign direct investment, bolstering its currency and filling its foreign…

  • Following an Algeria Conference hosted by Charles Russell Speechlys, Graham Jarvis reports that Algeria has a secure and promising future. Learn about the growing business opportunities that exist in Algeria here: Learn about the growing business opportunities in Algeria, read on. Published by Diplomat magazine in December 2015. 

  • Having spent a month out in the open after making public its desire to buy the British drugmaker, Pfizer was unable to clear enough hurdles to push the deal through. Concern that the transaction was merely a tax mitigation exercise certainly didn’t help matters, while AstraZeneca’s board was stubborn in its call for a higher…

  • South Sudan's fledgling universities need money – and educated young people – to survive. Graham Jarvis reports. No sooner had the celebrations that followed the Republic of South Sudan's independence from its northern neighbour in July last year died down than the country's fledgling government found itself facing serious challenges, a number of them education-related.…

  • Republicans at loggerheads with Democrats and Moody's over retrenchment. Graham Jarvis writes In common with many US states in recent months, Florida has slashed its higher education budget, cutting $300 million (£191 million) in a bid to help tackle its fiscal deficit. The move will force Florida's 11 public universities to dig into their reserves,…

  • Poland’s government, after mixed results procuring road sections, has tried a different tack for procuring rail assets. Will using real estate techniques serve state rail operator PKP any better? Graham Jarvis reports. Read more here… Client: Euromoney, Project Finance Magazine

  • China’s growing economic prowess has been long and widely reported. Already the world’s third-largest economy, many expect it to overtake Japan for second place by the end of this year…

  • The World Health Organisation (WHO) celebrated World Health Day on 7 April 2010. This year the event, which marked the organisation’s 62nd anniversary, kicked off a year-long campaign to highlight health threats arising from the worldwide trend toward urbanisation. Read more here. Client: Diplomat magazine; published on 4th May 2010.

  • Read page 13 of the March-April edition of World Finance here. Also, 'Do stock exchange rallies enhance international relations?". Find out if they do on pages 44-46. Client:WN Media; World Finance magazine.

  • Some financial commentators are advising that investors forget about China this year and put their money into India. But while it is true that both countries demonstrate some considerable similarities in the way their economies are being (successfully) run, there remain a number of key differences that set them apart; and indeed further research suggests…