This week’s PR news in brief (8-12 January)
Here’s our round-up of essential PR news stories and features from the past week, including an interview with the Sunday Express’ Geoff Ho, account wins for Speed [...]
Stephen Malthouse joins Headland as partner
Headland has appointed Stephen Malthouse, a former crisis management specialist at Tulchan, as a partner, Roxanne Pratley reports. Malthouse spent 14 years at Tulchan, [...]
Grosvenor hires new media relations head
Property giant Grosvenor Britain and Ireland has appointed Rachel Garstang as head of media relations. Garstang will take up the role later this month, joining the company’s [...]
Meet the Journalist: Sunday Express city and financial editor Geoff Ho
Geoff Ho, city and financial editor of the Sunday Express, describes how varied his working days can be, what stories he’s looking for and the big business stories in [...]
Quill PR appoints Emma Murphy as director
Quill PR has appointed Emma Murphy, a former director of Citigate Dewe Rogerson’s corporate practice, as a director. At Citigate, she worked with a range of financial services [...]
Ketchum launches executive committee and appoints corporate MD
Ketchum has created an executive committee reporting to recently appointed London CEO Jo-ann Robertson. The committee will be responsible for talent development, client [...]
Madano launches new technology practice
Strategic communications consultancy Madano has launched a new technology practice and appointed Dominic Weeks as head of technology. Weeks joins Madano from its sister [...]
Newgate Communications wins LRI Group brief
Luxembourg-based investment services company LRI Group has appointed Newgate Communications as its European comms adviser. Newgate partner Alistair Kellie and Byron Ousey, a [...]
CIPR president Sarah Hall outlines her vision for PR in 2018
Sarah Hall, the CIPR’s 2018 president, talks about her plans promote diversity in PR, give younger practitioners a voice and establish PR as a strategic management function. [...]
Citypress hires senior social media manager
Citypress has appointed Sam Elmidoro as senior social media manager. Elmidoro will help to deliver campaigns and provide strategic advice to clients across the agency. She [...]
The end-of-year PR news round-up (11 December 2017 – 5 January 2018)
Catch up on the essential news, events and thought leadership you may have missed over the festive period with this end-of-year PR news round-up. Thought leadership [...]
End-of-year round-up: PR account wins (11 December 2017 – 5 January 2018)
The comms industry ended 2017 with a flurry of PR account wins from Frank PR, Newgate Communications, Hudson Sandler and many more. See the full round-up below. Consumer PR [...]
Stephen Waddington predicts 2018 will be a breakthrough year for PR
In this year’s final Cision webinar, Ketchum‘s Stephen Waddington predicted that 2018 will see communicators capitalise on the opportunities new technology is [...]
This week’s PR news in brief (4-8 December)
Here’s our round-up of essential PR news stories and features from the past week, including an interview with National Geographic Food’s Maria Pieri, account wins for [...]
Adele Breen joins Hotwire as director of corporate strategy
Hotwire has appointed Adele Breen as its first director of corporate strategy, responsible for overseeing the agency’s focus on emerging sectors and delivering specialist [...]
CNBC: When you have an exclusive story, come to us first
A focus on quality over quantity is behind CNBC’s rapid digital growth this year, Cristy Garratt, CNBC’s head of social media and digital video, said at yesterday’s Cision [...]
Seymour PR to promote engineering and FM sector
Facilities management services provider ABM UK has appointed Seymour PR to design and deliver its Junior Engineering Engagement Programme (J.E.E.P) campaign to change the [...]
Stand Agency hires Nick Osborne as associate director
Stand Agency has appointed Nick Osborne as an associate director to lead its financial and professional services division and develop its corporate and B2B accounts. Osborne [...]