Keith McDowall - Revision history

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PR consultant

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Northern Ireland

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Northern Ireland

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Government Information Service

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Government Information Service role

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==Affiliations==
*[[Keith McDowall Associates]]

==Notes==
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	:From there, I moved to what was then called the [[Department of Employment and Productivity]], where I cut some more teeth under [[Bernard Ingham]], later Mrs Thatcher's Press Secretary, and then Keith McDowall. Ingham and McDowall were robust in their defence of Government policies, but there remained a strict divide between political figures who worked for the party in power and Civil Service information officers, who were required to remain unbiased, non-political and incorruptible. We were expected to do our job to the best of our ability, for whoever was in power and however the policies might change. But that strict convention was undermined within days of New Labour's arrival in Whitehall.<ref>'[http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-462464/If-media-feral-Tony-Blair-craven-manipulation-Civil-Service-blame.html If the media is feral, Tony Blair only has his craven manipulation of the Civil Service to blame]' By STEPHEN REARDON, ''Mail on Sunday'', Last updated at 22:38 16 June 2007 </ref>		:From there, I moved to what was then called the [[Department of Employment and Productivity]], where I cut some more teeth under [[Bernard Ingham]], later Mrs Thatcher's Press Secretary, and then Keith McDowall. Ingham and McDowall were robust in their defence of Government policies, but there remained a strict divide between political figures who worked for the party in power and Civil Service information officers, who were required to remain unbiased, non-political and incorruptible. We were expected to do our job to the best of our ability, for whoever was in power and however the policies might change. But that strict convention was undermined within days of New Labour's arrival in Whitehall.<ref>'[http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-462464/If-media-feral-Tony-Blair-craven-manipulation-Civil-Service-blame.html If the media is feral, Tony Blair only has his craven manipulation of the Civil Service to blame]' By STEPHEN REARDON, ''Mail on Sunday'', Last updated at 22:38 16 June 2007 </ref>
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		+	==CBI Press Chief==

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 :Later, when the IRA set off a series of bombs in Belfast designed to generate many casualties and mass panic, Tickell rang and suggested naming the outrage Bloody Friday.
 :I instructed the press office to issue just the one line: “It looks like Bloody Friday.” That was the headline that went round the world. Tickell and I felt somewhat we had avenged the anti-British propaganda coup the IRA had achieved with the naming of Bloody Sunday.<ref>Keith McDowall [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article6843340.ece Lives remembered: Major-General Marston Tickell and The Right Rev Noël Jones], The Times, 21 September 2009.</ref>
 ===Government Information Service role===
 According to former government information officer [[Stephen Reardon]]:

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 ===Northern Ireland===
 ===Government Information Service role===
 According to former government information officer [[Stephen Reardon]]:
 :From there, I moved to what was then called the [[Department of Employment and Productivity]], where I cut some more teeth under [[Bernard Ingham]], later Mrs Thatcher's Press Secretary, and then Keith McDowall. Ingham and McDowall were robust in their defence of Government policies, but there remained a strict divide between political figures who worked for the party in power and Civil Service information officers, who were required to remain unbiased, non-political and incorruptible. We were expected to do our job to the best of our ability, for whoever was in power and however the policies might change. But that strict convention was undermined within days of New Labour's arrival in Whitehall.<ref>'[http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-462464/If-media-feral-Tony-Blair-craven-manipulation-Civil-Service-blame.html If the media is feral, Tony Blair only has his craven manipulation of the Civil Service to blame]' By STEPHEN REARDON, ''Mail on Sunday'', Last updated at 22:38 16 June 2007 </ref>
 ==PR consultant==
 After leaving the GIS McDowall set up [[Keith McDowall Associates]], a small PR consultancy that was acquired by [[Chime Communications]] in 1998.<ref>http://www.alacrastore.com/deal-snapshot/Chime_Communications_PLC_acquires_Keith_McDowall_Associates-214534</ref>

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	:From there, I moved to what was then called the [[Department of Employment and Productivity]], where I cut some more teeth under [[Bernard Ingham]], later Mrs Thatcher's Press Secretary, and then Keith McDowall. Ingham and McDowall were robust in their defence of Government policies, but there remained a strict divide between political figures who worked for the party in power and Civil Service information officers, who were required to remain unbiased, non-political and incorruptible. We were expected to do our job to the best of our ability, for whoever was in power and however the policies might change. But that strict convention was undermined within days of New Labour's arrival in Whitehall.<ref>'[http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-462464/If-media-feral-Tony-Blair-craven-manipulation-Civil-Service-blame.html If the media is feral, Tony Blair only has his craven manipulation of the Civil Service to blame]' By STEPHEN REARDON, ''Mail on Sunday'', Last updated at 22:38 16 June 2007 </ref>		:From there, I moved to what was then called the [[Department of Employment and Productivity]], where I cut some more teeth under [[Bernard Ingham]], later Mrs Thatcher's Press Secretary, and then Keith McDowall. Ingham and McDowall were robust in their defence of Government policies, but there remained a strict divide between political figures who worked for the party in power and Civil Service information officers, who were required to remain unbiased, non-political and incorruptible. We were expected to do our job to the best of our ability, for whoever was in power and however the policies might change. But that strict convention was undermined within days of New Labour's arrival in Whitehall.<ref>'[http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-462464/If-media-feral-Tony-Blair-craven-manipulation-Civil-Service-blame.html If the media is feral, Tony Blair only has his craven manipulation of the Civil Service to blame]' By STEPHEN REARDON, ''Mail on Sunday'', Last updated at 22:38 16 June 2007 </ref>
		+	==PR consultant==
		+	After leaving the GIS McDowall set up [[Keith McDowall Associates]], a small PR consultancy that was acquired by [[Chime Communications]] in 1998.<ref>http://www.alacrastore.com/deal-snapshot/Chime_Communications_PLC_acquires_Keith_McDowall_Associates-214534</ref>

	==Affiliations==		==Affiliations==

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 :Keith McDowall of the Daily Mail was media minder for Willie Whitelaw, Michael Foot and a range of other Labour Ministers.<ref>Paul Routledge '[http://www.bjr.org.uk/data/2001/no4_routledge It may pay — but journalism it ain't]' ''British Journalism Review'', Vol. 12, No. 4, 2001, pages 31-35</ref>
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 ==Affiliations==
 *[[Keith McDowall Associates]]
+===Connections===
 ==Notes==
 <references/>

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		+	:Keith McDowall of the Daily Mail was media minder for Willie Whitelaw, Michael Foot and a range of other Labour Ministers.<ref>Paul Routledge '[http://www.bjr.org.uk/data/2001/no4_routledge It may pay — but journalism it ain't]' ''British Journalism Review'', Vol. 12, No. 4, 2001, pages 31-35</ref>
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		+	According to former government information officer [[Stephen Reardon]]:
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		+	:From there, I moved to what was then called the Department of Employment and Productivity, where I cut some more teeth under [[Bernard Ingham]], later Mrs Thatcher's Press Secretary, and then Keith McDowall. Ingham and McDowall were robust in their defence of Government policies, but there remained a strict divide between political figures who worked for the party in power and Civil Service information officers, who were required to remain unbiased, non-political and incorruptible. We were expected to do our job to the best of our ability, for whoever was in power and however the policies might change. But that strict convention was undermined within days of New Labour's arrival in Whitehall.<ref>'[http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-462464/If-media-feral-Tony-Blair-craven-manipulation-Civil-Service-blame.html If the media is feral, Tony Blair only has his craven manipulation of the Civil Service to blame]' By STEPHEN REARDON, ''Mail on Sunday'', Last updated at 22:38 16 June 2007 </ref>

	==Affiliations==		==Affiliations==