Why it’s time for CMOs to embrace PR and comms
What you’re about to read might sound like bad news. But for businesses that arm themselves with the right tools, it actually represents a huge opportunity just waiting to be realised. You see, consumer trust is falling across the board. Global research firm Nielsen reports that consumers now trust print, TV and radio ads less […]
Ogilvy’s Alex Wood joins Golin
Golin has brought in Ogilvy’s Alex Wood as executive creative director, with a brief to “bring innovation into the agency”. Wood spent more than three-and-a-half years at [...]
60 seconds with CIPR president Rob Brown
Halfway through his 2016 presidential term at the CIPR (Chartered Institute of Public Relations), Rob Brown talks about the professional body, its ongoing work, and reflects [...]
Edgeware hands global brief to Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
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 [...]
Lancashire Telegraph deputy editor joins Viva
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 [...]
Newgate Communications appointed by Sompo
Japanese insurance service provider, Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Holdings (Sompo), has appointed Newgate Communications to a combined corporate and financial communications and [...]
Louise Mason joins Citigate Dewe Rogerson
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 [...]
Opinion: Keep calm and brave Brexit
In light of Brexit, Kitty Parry, CEO at financial PR consultancy Templars Communications, advises communications professionals around how they can create confidence in the [...]
MHP’s Adam Batstone on ‘moving to the darkside’
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 [...]
Gorkana meets… Computer Weekly
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 [...]
Autocar names influential comms women in car industry
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 [...]
Instinctif hires strategic creative director
Instinctif Partners has hired Ian Allison to head up the International Engagement design team as strategic creative director. Allison, who joins from Bell Integrated [...]
The Gorkana Weekly Industry News Brief: 4 July – 8 July 2016
Missed out on this week’s PR News? Get your handy round-up of the essential highlights of PR and media stories, features and events content over the last seven days on Gorkana [...]
TalkTalk boosts external comms team
TalkTalk has enhanced its external comms team with the appointments of Sky’s Coralie Frost as media relations manager, Nickelodeon UK’s Maxine Sackey as consumer PR manager [...]
The PR opportunities at education conferences
As education conferences kick off for the year, with The Telegraph Festival of Education and the British Education Studies Association (BESA) conference just passed and the [...]
60 seconds with Joe Mitton, PLMR
Following a special advisor role at the Office of the Mayor of London, Joe Mitton has taken up a senior consultant position at political lobbying specialist, PLMR. Mitton [...]
Onyx Health announces three new hires
Healthcare marketing comms agency Onyx Health has boosted its team in the North East through the appointment of three new hires. Trevor Pill, formerly marketing and design [...]
W launches influencer marketing division
W Communications has this week launched a new agency division, W Influencer, as it looks to bring the benefits of “earned advocacy” to a wider range of brands. W [...]
Yellow Jersey selected by Canadian Overseas Petroleum
Yellow Jersey has been appointed by Canadian Overseas Petroleum (COPL), a junior oil and gas company, to deliver financial PR services, with a focus on driving awareness and [...]