Good Broadcast this week welcomed BBC journalist Jack Baine onto its team as a consultant. Working on programmes including BBC World News TV, BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat and BBC Radio 5 Live, his 20 plus years at the public broadcaster has seen him on the receiving end of many a PR pitch. As he moves over to PR, […]
Twitter has brought in Kristin Binns, VP for comms at health insurance firm Anthem, as senior comms director. Binns will handle all consumer and corporate PR activity for the social media platform. As well as Anthem, she has worked in PR roles at companies including NBCUniversal and GE Healthcare. She will report to Leslie Berland, chief […]
London-based The PR Office has made two new hires to its community and not-for-profit team. Kerrie Josephs joins as account director and Rosie Dean as account manager. Josephs has been working as a freelance PR manager at Nutrilicious and she has experience in charity, education and consumer finance. She will oversee the community and not-for-profit team. Dean […]
As B Lab announces the agency’s success, Peter Gilheaney, Forster Communications’ PR director, talks to Gorkana about how it has won the awards for good business practice and how a long-term social change strategy has helped the agency differentiate itself. Forster Communications has won two ‘Best for the World’ awards from independent non-profit organisation B Lab, it was announced today, […]
Specialist real estate communications consultancy, Redwood Consulting has been appointed byOxfordshire business and science park MEPC Milton Park, Silverstone Technology Cluster and property software company TopUp Consultants. Redwood will support MEPC’s in-house comms team with an integrated campaign promoting Milton Park as a business location for science and tech firms. It will also deliver a media relations and stakeholder engagement programme around […]
Atomic’s Amy Ronge has returned to Hotwire as a senior programme director on its consumer team, eight years after starting her PR career on the agency’s graduate scheme. Leaving Hotwire as an account manager in 2012, Ronge joined PR agency Atomic to work on key accounts including Skype and Pernod Ricard UK. She worked on […]
The Primal Pantry, the brand behind the “UK’s cleanest protein bars”, has handed a 12-month PR contract to consumer and lifestyle agency See.Saw. Founded by Suzie Walker, a nutritionist and food industry marketer with experience at Nestle, Innocent Drinks and Little Dish, in February 2014, The Primal Pantry’s range of fruit and nut bars is listed in […]
Louie St Claire, managing director at Harvard, talks to Gorkana about tech specialism, hiring the right people and what it takes to be successful in the PR industry. What led you to specialise in technology? I had a serendipitous start in tech. I worked at a one-man band straight out of University for a guy that ran […]
Berlin-based mobile advertising technology provider, RNTS Media, has appointed Newgate Communications to provide financial PR, corporate PR and investor relations services. Newgate has been briefed to raise RNTS’ profile with investors in the UK and Europe, and improve corporate communications with all relevant stakeholders. Steffan Williams, Newgate MD, will lead the team, partner Bob Huxford […]
When the National Trust wanted to send a rallying cry to the kids of the UK this summer to “start a lifelong love affair with the great outdoors”, Mischief built on the trust’s existing ‘50 Things To Do Before You’re 11 ¾’ campaign by enlisting the help of Game of Thrones star and musician Raleigh Ritchie to […]