Tech comms agency Red Lorry Yellow Lorry has been chosen by TV content delivery specialist Edgeware to handle its global PR activity. Edgeware provides operators and content owners with the tools to deliver their TV services at “huge scale and low cost”. Red Lorry Yellow Lorry has been briefed by Edgeware to build its profile […]
Manchester PR agency, Viva, has hired Alan Simpson, the former deputy editor of the Lancashire Telegraph. Simpson, who has taken up the role of business development executive at Viva, was at the Lancashire Telegraph for more than 35 years. His role at Viva includes the creation of media relations strategies and developing business opportunities. Simpson said: “This is an […]
Japanese insurance service provider, Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Holdings (Sompo), has appointed Newgate Communications to a combined corporate and financial communications and public affairs brief. Newgate will provide media relations, stakeholder and political outreach and financial comms support to raise Sompo’s profile in the UK. It will also support the international growth of the business. The Newgate team […]
Citigate Dewe Rogerson has appointed Louise Mason as a director in its financial team, where she will be responsible for growing the existing client base and expanding upon its natural resources expertise. Patrick Donovan, managing director at Citigate Dewe Rogerson, said: “We are very excited to have Louise join our growing team. With her strong […]
In light of Brexit, Kitty Parry, CEO at financial PR consultancy Templars Communications, advises communications professionals around how they can create confidence in the wake of a shock. With the UK’s shock decision to leave the EU, England’s spectacular loss to Iceland in the European Championship and the lamentable resignation of a certain Top Gear presenter, the country has had a […]
BBC veteran Adam Batstone on the best aspects of his new role as director of digital at MHP, what leads to a successful digital strategy and journalists behaving badly. You spent 20 years as a journalist for the BBC, what has the jump to PR been like? An interesting and occasionally traumatic experience – The BBC gets […]
Bryan Glick, editor in chief at Computer Weekly, an online B2B publisher of IT-related news and jobs, and a TechTarget publication, talks about the publication’s shift from print to digital and describes the ideal working relationship with PRs. Can you summarise Computer Weekly‘s readership in one sentence? We write for anyone involved in making technology decisions […]
Autocar has identified the top 100 British women working in the automotive sector, with Fiona Pargeter, head of global PR comms for Jaguar Land Rover, taking the comms category. The initiative, Great British Women in the Car Industry, was created to celebrate the role of women in the automotive industry at a judging day held jointly with […]
Instinctif Partners has hired Ian Allison to head up the International Engagement design team as strategic creative director. Allison, who joins from Bell Integrated Communications, will work closely with global creative director, Richard Pemberton. Instinctif has made four senior hires to its International Engagement practice this year, including Allison. It has recently expanded its presence […]
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