Portland hires Dr Brendan Murphy as director
Portland has hired Dr Brendan Murphy as a director to establish and grow its medical education offering. Murphy will be part of the health management team. He joins Portland [...]
Hotwire wins multi-country brief with Nuance
Hotwire has been appointed as the European PR agency for Nuance, a business providing voice and language tools for both businesses and consumers. The agency will work across [...]
Economist group study finds execs trust brand content
The Economist Group’s ‘Economist Intelligence Unit’ study has shown that emerging executives are more likely than their elders to trust brands as publishers. The study, [...]
GCI Health launches ‘The ZEST Project’ to find top talent
GCI Health has launched The ZEST Project for the second year in a row as it looks to attract the UK’s top graduate talent. Applications for The ZEST Project open today and [...]
Lloyd’s insurance market reappoints Gong
Gong Communications has been reappointed to work on Lloyd’s insurance market’s international diversity and inclusion festival, ‘Dive In’. The agency will manage this year’s [...]
Callcredit appoints Octopus Group
Consumer data specialist Callcredit Information Group has appointed Octopus Group as its retained PR and social media agency following a competitive three-way pitch. Octopus [...]
Amazon hires Ruwan Kodikara in corporate comms role
Ruwan Kodikara, a former special adviser to the deputy Prime Minister, has been appointed as senior manager of corporate communications at Amazon UK. Kodikara will join late [...]
Best workplace ranking features four PR agencies
Firstlight (pictured above) and three other PR agencies have been featured in the 2016 edition of Great Place To Work’s employer rankings. Firstlight, a business-to-business [...]
Why PR should learn to embrace diversity
Warren Johnson, founder of W Communications, says the launch of digital agency fortysix last week at Ad Week Europe has reinvigorated the diversity debate and offered a [...]
European train ticketing company hires Havas PR
Havas PR (pictured) has been appointed as the corporate PR agency for the UK arm of Voyages-SNCF, the European rail ticket sales subsidiary of SNCF, the French national train [...]
How Twitter’s ‘live’ offering will provide value for PR
Twitter reported its financial results for the quarter ending on March 31 this week, highlighting its ‘live’ strategy for 2016, which will focus on creating more premium [...]
Charity fundraising regulator appoints Pagefield
A new fundraising regulator for the charity sector has appointed Pagefield on comms and press office support ahead of its launch later in the year. The Fundraising Regulator, [...]
News coverage drives charity campaigns, finds Gorkana survey
Gorkana’s first Charity Attitudes Benchmarking Survey shows how positive and negative media coverage can affect charity campaign success and, in particular, how positive media [...]
Virgin Holidays appoints Kelly Grindle as PR lead
Virgin Holidays has appointed Kelly Grindle as a PR lead as it looks to refresh its external communications. Grindle will be responsible for overseeing all PR and external [...]
Rooster briefed by news service Upday
Axel Springer-backed news platform, Upday, has appointed Rooster to build brand and product awareness in the UK. Rooster is set to position Upday as an innovator among the UK [...]
Gorkana Meets… Risk.net
Duncan Wood, Risk.net‘s editor-in-chief, talks to Gorkana‘s Niall Davies about structural changes within the title, his new role and how PRs can pitch to him and [...]
JLL appoints Farrer Kane to build corporate profile
Global property consultancy JLL has appointed Farrer Kane to help build the profile of its corporate solutions team across a range of targeted sectors. Farrer Kane is set to [...]
60 seconds with Steffan Williams, Newgate Communications
Steffan Williams, group managing director at Newgate, on why corporate PRs need to be decisive, the similarities between investment banking and comms and the importance [...]