Meet the Journalist: The Cricketer’s Huw Turbervill

Huw Turbervill, managing editor at The Cricketer, discusses the magazine’s loyalty to its readers and the upcoming Ashes series, including a score prediction. You’ve just launched your Ashes preview edition, what do you think will be the main talking point throughout the series? Whether it matters if Australia have pacier bowlers than England. The tourists […]

CSM wins Formula E brief

Electric street racing motorsport series Formula E has appointed CSM Sport and Entertainment to handle its global and local PR following a competitive pitch process. The agency will be responsible for promoting greater brand awareness through consistent sport and lifestyle media coverage in a key markets including the UK, US, Germany, France, Italy and Brazil. Paul […]

Bristol City Council wins top prizes at CIPR PRide awards

Bristol City Council took home two highly coveted gold awards at Friday’s Chartered Institute of Public Relations PRide Awards for the South of England and Channel Islands. At a ceremony which saw gongs spread across teams, the council’s comms team was awarded the gold for Outstanding In-House Public Relations Team, while Joe Ball, one of its […]

This week’s PR news in brief (13-17 November)

Here’s our round-up of essential PR news stories and features from the past week, including the winners of the CIPR Midlands PRide awards, account wins for Hills Balfour and Big Brand Ideas and Cision’s Abe Smith on how print media and television complement each other.  Opinion Abe Smith, Cision’s president of EMIA, explores the combination of print and […]

Clifford French to promote 2018 Laureus World Sports Awards

Laureus World Sports Awards has appointed Clifford French to implement a UK comms and influencer strategy to promote its 2018 ceremony in Monaco. Following a competitive pitch, the agency will develop a four-month campaign which focuses on reaching new audiences around the Laureus Awards and promoting the work of Laureus Sport for Good. The earned […]

60 Seconds with Quidditch Premier League comms director Tom Ffiske

Tom Ffiske, senior account executive at Porter Novelli London, discusses his role as comms director of the Quidditch Premier League and how he assists QuidditchUK and the International Quidditch Association.  Can you outline how the sport works without magic?  Quidditch was adapted from the Harry Potter novels almost twelve years ago in the US. It […]

W to launch London’s Hard Rock Hotel

Hotel operator glh Hotels has appointed W as lead global agency for the launch of the new Hard Rock Hotel in London following a competitive pitch. The agency’s creative launch programme will encompass international consumer and lifestyle media relations, trade engagement, talent and influencer activity, digital content and social media. It will run from late […]

Steve Summers joins Remarkable Group as director

Public affairs and property comms specialist Remarkable Group has appointed Steve Summers as a director. He will play a major role in growing the agency’s client list across the capital and south-east as it looks to expand across the property, infrastructure, energy and transport sectors. Summers joins following seven years at Bell Pottinger, with four […]