John Doe has been handed a consumer PR brief by Asian food brand itsu [grocery] to support a selection of its key retail products during the winter months. itsu [grocery] and John Doe will work on the consumer PR brief with immediate effect and into the new year. Natalie Sugarman, head of marketing at itsu […]
Social and digital engagement consultancy OneFifty has brought in UK lifestyle, travel and fitness blogger Natalie Glaze as a relationship manager. Glaze, who was nominated for Best Healthy & Wellbeing Influencer at the Cosmopolitan Influencer Awards 2016 this month, will be responsible for developing OneFifty’s model and products for improving the way brands and social […]
Law firm Dentons will launch a free network for public affairs firms in early 2017. The worldwide network will be called Nextlaw Global Public Affairs Network and Dentons has begun inviting firms to join. Membership will be extended to companies and organisations who shape government policy or opinion through lobbying, PR, advertising, or other means. Joe (Joseph) Andrew, […]
Portland has hired former Foreign Office employee Victoria Dean to head up its Brexit unit. Dean joined Portland as a partner this week after almost 20 years in the diplomatic service. Dean will report to Portland’s managing partner Steve Morris. Her most recent posting was as British high commissioner to the Eastern Carribean. She previously served at embassies […]
Exposure London has won a new pan-European brief from online mattress company Simba Sleep, three months after being named as the brand’s retained UK consumer agency. Since becoming Simba’s retained UK agency in August, Exposure has assisted in increasing sales and building awareness of the Simba Hybrid, which it says is the “world’s most advanced […]
Communications consultancy to the investment industry, JPES Partners, has hired Tahmina Mannan and Roya Abbasi to join its team as senior client manager and senior client executive, respectively. Mannan joins from fund ratings and research firm FE Trustnet, where she headed up the PR team. Previously, she was a financial journalist covering the UK retail investment […]
Your bitesize update on the best PR opinion, interviews, events and insights on Gorkana News this week: Opinion: What corporate brands should learn from Trump’s victory in a world of rebellion Aside from the fate of the pollsters – who should be looking for new careers after three strikes on the bounce on calling the big things wrong […]
Senior ITN broadcast journalist Tim Singleton has been appointed director of comms for the Department for International Development (DfID). He is currently deputy editor and director of newsgathering for ITV News and recently announced his departure from ITN after 24 years. During that time, he has held a series of senior roles at ITV News, including head […]
With ‘post-truth’ announced this week as word of the year by Oxford Dictionaries, Howard Bowden, media trainer and co-founder of Generation, looks at the rise and rise of fake news and why it’s a challenge for PRs. If 2016 is the year the post-war political rulebook was torn up, it feels like it’s been an even more seismic […]
Aspectus will manage international media relations for Swiss Finance Startups (SFS). SFS says it requires a communications partner to help it build the profile of Swiss fintech globally. Founded in Zurich in 2014, it is a non-profit organisation run by its start-up members, and drives the digitalisation of the financial industry. Urs Haeusler, SFS board […]