82% of PR and communications professionals surveyed by CIPR’s Health Group answered ‘yes’ to having felt an impact on their mental health during the coronavirus pandemic. The survey, exploring the impact of the COVID-19 crisis ...

This is a guest post from Natalie Trice, award winning PR coach and lecturer. While PE with Joe Wicks, growing veg in the garden, and clapping for carers on Thursday nights may have been part ...

PRFest has launched the DRIVEN Pledge to help tackle inclusion, diversity and equality issues within the PR and communications industry. The DRIVEN Pledge tool is available free to industry leaders and professionals working to make ...

This is a guest post from Rick Guttridge, managing director of Smoking Gun. After a challenging few months for PR and media professionals in the health and wellbeing sector, opportunity might be on the horizon. ...

This year’s Online Influence Awards, the UK’s leading celebration of the best bloggers, vloggers and digital storytellers, will take place on Friday 20 November, 5-7pm. While the impact of COVID-19 has meant a move away ...

For no-nonsense tips on how to hype up your business, Lucy Werner is here to help. Founder of The Wern and author of Hype Yourself: A no-nonsense DIY PR toolkit for small businesses, Lucy wants ...

This is a guest post from John Ashton, director of Write Arm. If you’ve spent the last four months at home wondering what the future holds, it’s possible that you’ve thought about starting your own ...

The PRCA has revealed changes to its Board of Directors following last week’s announcement of amendments to its governance structure. Joining the board are Kamiqua Pearce, Rimmi Shah, Ondine Whittington and Hugh Taggart MPRCA. Barbara ...

Our idea of good company is ‘the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation’ – hence today’s Spotlight on Jane Austin, founder of Persuasion Communications. Jane launched her comms company ...

56% of business leaders describe themselves as ‘extremely’ or ‘very’ stressed when it comes to their business or organisation, according to a Pulse Check from engagement consultancy Question & Retain. The survey of 1,094 C-suite ...

CIPR’s Influencer Marketing Panel has released three skill guides with updated regulations to help PRs practice influencer marketing ethically, legally and in line with the association’s Code of Conduct. Compiled in consultation with the Advertising ...

‘Black and Brown people currently working in the PR and communications industry have a rod running up our spines made of some otherworldly material,’ says Barbara Phillips, Chair of the PRCA’s newly launched Race and ...

One industry heavily impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic has undoubtedly been travel, and by extension, the media that reports on it. While the next Travel Media Awards have been pushed back to January 2021, travel ...

Following on from its commitment last month to help accelerate the progression of Black and ethnic minority professionals within the PR industry, the PRCA has launched its Race and Ethnicity Equity Board (REEB). Originally named ...

This is a guest post from Nicole Wilkins [pictured], Publisher of forward-planning diary service Foresight News.  As Parliament heads into its six-week summer recess, the effects of COVID-19 and the lingering lockdown restrictions continue to ...

This is a guest post from Kirsty Maxey, CEO of Teamspirit. An industry that has needed to flex incredibly quickly during the COVID-19 outbreak is the financial services sector. Many people are living on a ...

In the last few years, the acceleration of AI technology alongside the extension of social media into (almost) every aspect of day to day life has prompted rapid evolution of digital communications. It’s a theme ...

This guest post is by Kirsty Maxey, CEO of Teamspirit. We’ve all experienced change recently. Change to our daily routines, personal lives and working lives – in fact almost every aspect of our lives has ...

Findings from CIPR’s State of the Profession 2020 show just how far the PR industry has to go when it comes to reflecting the same values as its audience and clientele and improving on the ...

A decade of State of the Profession surveys from the CIPR continues with the 2020 report, released today, which focuses on social mobility, public relations as a professional community and how the views of those ...