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Gorkana recently met with editors of Financial News, at a breakfast briefing hosted by DLA Piper.

Financial News, the online daily news service and weekly newspaper, is the leading source of information about the investment banking, fund management and securities industries.

We enjoyed hearing from the below speakers about how they prefer to work with PRs and learning of the best ways to communicate with them.

Phillipa Leighton-Jones, Online Editor
Ben Wright, Deputy Editor
William Wright, Editor in Chief

Watch the Financial News webcast, fimed by Visual Media

Read a full round-up of the event in more detail at www.gorkanapr.com – the leading source of PR industry news and features.

At a recent breakfast, Gorkana was joined by ITN.

We spoke with senior editors who gave insights into the editorial decisions, approaches and processes that determine what stories make it on to some of the most high profile content made by ITN: ITV News, Channel 4 News, their websites and the various media outlets which have news content made by ITN Productions.

We were joined by the following speakers:

Toby Castle, Head of Home News, ITV News
Ed Fraser, Online Editor, Channel 4 News
Julie Hulme, Home Editor, Channel 4 News
Jamie Scott, Executive Producer, Entertainment, ITN Productions

>> Watch the ITN webcast, fimed by Visual Media

Read a full round-up of the event in more detail at www.gorkanapr.com – the leading source of PR industry news and features.

Property Week is the leading news magazine in the commercial property market. With a weekly circulation of 23,567, including 22,101 paying subscribers, it reaches all the key decision-makers in the specification chain.
PropertyWeek.com attracts over 150,000 unique users each month and has 26,000 subscribers to their email alerts.

Gorkana was delighted to be joined by Property Week’s award winning editor Giles Barrie and executive editor Iain O’Neil who gave a unique insight into their publication as well as telling us how theylike to work with PRs.

Watch the Property Week webcast, fimed by Visual Media

Read a full round-up of the event in more detail at www.gorkanapr.com – the leading source of PR industry news and features.

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Gorkana welcomed the following business editors of the Independent on Sunday to a breakfast briefing on Tuesday 8th February.

Margareta Pagano, Business Editor
Mark Leftly, Deputy Business Editor
Julian Knight, Money & Property Editor
Laura Chesters, Business Correspondent

Watch the video of The Independent on Sunday Breakfast Briefing, filmed by Visual Media

Read a full round-up of the event in more detail at www.gorkanapr.com – the leading source of PR industry news and features.

At their latest breakfast briefing, Gorkana was joined by members of MSN UK’s editorial team who discussed their individual channels, the types of stories they are looking for and how much they value PRs.

We were delighted to be joined by:

Matt Ball, Editor-in-Chief
Nicole O’Neil, Content Manager – Life & Style (+ Travel)
Tom Evans, Content Manager – Him (+ Cars)
Steven Wilson-Beales, Content Manager – Entertainment (+ Tech, Gadgets & Games)

Watch the MSN UK webcast, filmed by Visual Media

Read a full round-up of the event in more detail at www.gorkanapr.com – the leading source of PR industry news and features.

Gorkana recently met with The Mail on Sunday’s Travel Editor Frank Barrett, one of the best known and award winning travel writers in the industry.

As well as recalling his colourful travel stories and experiences, he also divulged top tips for PRs about how to work with him: the best ways to communicate with him, his daily routine, and the types of stories he prefers.

If you want to hear more from Frank, you can visit his blog here

>> Watch the Mail on Sunday webcast, filmed by Visual Media

At a recent breakfast briefing, Gorkana met up with Tiffanie Darke, the Editor of The Sunday Times, Style Magazine.

Tiffanie talked us through the magazine’s editorial structure, provided tips on the perfect Style feature and explained why she loves building relationships with PRs.

Read a full round-up of the event in more detail at www.gorkanapr.com – the leading source of PR industry news and features.

>> Watch The Sunday Times, Style Magazine webcast, filmed by Visual Media.

Reuters Breakingviews is the world’s leading source of agenda-setting financial insight. Breakingviews has recently been acquired by Thomson Reuters and is now Reuters’ brand for financial commentary.

Every day, they comment on the big financial stories as they break. Breakingviews has around 30 columnists based in London, New York, Hong Kong, Paris, Washington, Moscow and Madrid. They also syndicate selected columns on Reuters.com and in 15 influential newspapers including The New York Times, The Daily Telegraph, The International Herald Tribune and Le Monde.

We were delighted to welcome the following speakers:

Hugo Dixon, Editor and Founder
Chris Hughes, Assistant Editor

>> Watch the Reuters Breakingviews webcast, filmed by Visual Media

‘It’s the Economy Stupid!’ The Economic Forces Driving the Media Agenda in 2011 and How Business Communications Should Respond to Them

Gorkana held a panel event on the ‘Economy‘ on Wednesday 24 November, kindly hosted by Nomura. The audience heard from our panel of leading journalists as they discussed their thoughts on the challenges facing the economic recovery and were able to question them on how these will impact on the communications agenda.

The panel of speakers:

Hugh Pym,
Chief Economics Correspondent, BBC
Iain Martin,
Deputy Editor, Wall Street Journal Europe
Neil Hume
Editor, FT Alphaville
Sam Fleming,
Economics Editor, The Times
Michael Wilson,
ex Sky News (Event Chair)

Discussion topics included recession/stagflation/growth, rebalancing the UK economy and global trade/currency flows.

>> Watch the Economy Panel Session webcast, filmed by Visual Media

On Tuesday 9th November, Gorkana held a breakfast briefing with The Independent.

David Prosser, Business Editor gave his views on how he likes to work with PRs as well as a providing information on the structure and daily workings of the publication.

>> Watch The Independent webcast, filmed by Visual Media