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Successful Newsjacking for mark esho MBE

  • Writer: Hannah McCreesh
    Hannah McCreesh
  • Sep 10, 2022
  • 1 min read

Updated: Apr 22, 2023

My client Mark Esho MBE is a disabled entrepreneur and my first freelance client - we have been working together for the past 4 years. I manage his personal PR and occassional PR campaigns for his other businesses.


Mark's story


Mark contracted poliovirus when he was 5 years old, at a time when it was meant to have been eradicated from the UK. He became paralysed overnight from the neck down - doctors told him he had a 10% chance of survival and that he'd never walk again. He defied the odds by not only surviving, but managing to regain limited mobility.


Monitoring the news


In June 2022 I saw the news that poliovirus had been found in London sewers. I knew that a media frenzy was likely to ensue, so I pitched Mark's story proactively to the national news as he is a poliovirus survivor.

The results

Mark was interviewed for an exclusive with the Daily Mirror and had the opportunity to share his story with thousands of people.



 
 
 

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