Downing Street press officer among three Powerscourt hires
Strategic communications consultancy Powerscourt has added political intelligence specialist Matthew O’Toole, investor relations consultant Alison Watson and corporate [...]
Text100 appoints Rod Cartwright as EMEA regional director
Marketing comms agency Text100 has announced former Ketchum global corporate lead Rod Cartwright as its new EMEA regional director. He will take over from Cecile Missildine, [...]
Skout wins trio of B2B tech clients
Cheshire-based B2B PR agency Skout has added a trio of new clients to its tech portfolio – Airangel, Cleardata UK and CORETX. Airangel, a hospitality wifi provider, has [...]
This week’s PR news in brief (4-8 September)
Here is a round-up of essential PR stories, people news and account wins that have been announced over the past week. Account wins CIPD, a professional body for HR and people [...]
Marketing expert Jay Baer reviews the Cision Communications Cloud
Jay Baer, a New York Times best-selling author and product marketing expert, recently reviewed the Cision Communications Cloud (TM) on his popular technology show Marketing [...]
Former Boris Johnson special advisor joins Pagefield
Reputation management specialist Pagefield has appointed Liam Parker, Boris Johnson’s former special advisor and director of political communications, as partner at the firm. [...]
Headland wins Lidl UK brief
Lidl UK has appointed Headland for a wide-ranging brief spanning public affairs, senior communications advice, press office support and corporate and financial PR. Led by [...]
Hudson Sandler appoints Rebecca Gudgeon as board director
Hudson Sandler has appointed Rebecca Gudgeon as a board director to help develop its strategic corporate communications practice. Gudgeon has been providing board council on [...]
Trio of appointments at Yellow Jersey
Yellow Jersey has appointed Georgia Colkin as its first associate director, operating out of its financial PR division and across a handful of key clients. Abs Hassanali and [...]
George Osborne: Journalism is a lot more fun than politics
Former Chancellor George Osborne this week talked at an exclusive London Press Club event sponsored by Cision about his new job as editor of the London Evening Standard, his [...]
British Library appoints Jargon PR CEO as growth mentor
The British Library has selected Jargon PR CEO Simon Corbett to be one of its “Innovating for Growth” mentors. Having benefitted from The British Library’s business resources [...]
Clarion Comms appoints Jeremy Blackburn to advisory board
Clarion Communications has appointed tobacco industry veteran Jeremy Blackburn to its advisory board of “Very Clever People”. The corporate communications specialist has dealt [...]
Government special adviser joins Burson-Marsteller
Burson-Marsteller UK has hired former Downing Street adviser Meg Powell-Chandler as a director in its public affairs team. Powell-Chandler ran as the Conservative candidate in [...]
Mercedes-Benz Vans UK retains markettiers for broadcast PR
Mercedes-Benz Vans UK has appointed markettiers Manchester to handle its broadcast communications on a retained basis. The consultancy will work with the Mercedes-Benz Vans [...]
This week’s PR news in brief (28 August – 1 September)
Here is a round-up of all the essential PR stories, people news and account wins that have been announced over the past week. Account wins YO! has selected W as its retained [...]
InStyle media briefing marks Cision events calendar relaunch
Next Thursday’s exclusive media briefing with InStyle.co.uk marks the return of Cision’s regular PR events schedule following its summer hiatus. As well as the [...]
5 simple steps to incorporating influencers into your PR strategy
Influencer marketing expert Adrian Ma outlined how to incorporate social influencers into your earned media strategy in this Cision webinar.
This week’s PR news in brief (21-25 August)
Here is a round-up of all the essential PR stories, people news and account wins that have been announced over the past week. Account wins Bath Spa University has appointed [...]