{"id":95559,"date":"2014-01-28T16:34:20","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T14:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=95559"},"modified":"2014-01-28T16:35:15","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T14:35:15","slug":"telkom-looking-for-help-with-bad-media-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/95559-telkom-looking-for-help-with-bad-media-source.html","title":{"rendered":"Telkom looking for help with bad media: source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A well-placed source has informed MyBroadband that Telkom is seeking the services of high profile PR professionals to assist the company with its communications with the media.<\/p>\n<p>The source, who asked to remain anonymous, said that Telkom was in discussions with Richard Foxton from Foxton Communicating, and Francois Baird, chairman at Africa at Edelman.<\/p>\n<p>Foxton Communicating confirmed that they were in discussions with Telkom, but said that there is currently no contract between them and Telkom.<\/p>\n<p>Baird told MyBroadband that it is not their policy to publicly disclose whether they were in discussions with Telkom. He also said that they do not currently have a contract with Telkom.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom would also not comment on the issue: \u201cTelkom does not discuss its contractual arrangements with suppliers of goods\/services with the media\u201d.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Telkom<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Telkom to cut workforce by a third: report\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/94678-telkom-to-cut-workforce-by-a-third-report.html\"><strong>Telkom to cut workforce by a third: report<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telkom: did they or didn\u2019t they?\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/94965-telkom-did-they-or-didnt-they.html\"><strong>Telkom: did they or didn\u2019t they?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom is seeking help from independent consultants to improve the company\u2019s media communications &#8211; source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":95105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[23355,23351,23353,35,23349,109],"class_list":["post-95559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-africa-at-edelman","tag-foxton-communicating","tag-francois-baird","tag-headline","tag-richard-foxton","tag-telkom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95559"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95559"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95677,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95559\/revisions\/95677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}