The Journalist Enquiry Service turns the pitching process on its head – journalists reach out to PR and comms professionals for help with articles, reviews, case studies, spokespeople, locations and celebrities. Following our acquisition of ...

This week’s Political Updates covers moves and changes at all levels of government.    Government  Jo Johnson resigned as Minister of State for Transport and Minister for London. Government departments Jeff Glekin has been appointed Her ...

Planning your PR and marketing campaigns for 2019? AM+A Marketing and Media Relations has picked up two awards in 2018: the Campaign Challenges Award at the PRCA Dare Awards and the Arts, Culture or Sport Campaign 2018 at ...

The Creative Shootout competition is back for 2019 and is now open for entries. Agency teams from all marketing disciplines are being called on to show off their creative talent to tackle plastic pollution. For ...

The way that PR and comms teams are using social media channels is changing, with more focus on paid campaigns and less on customer service. Last week, the PRCA’s Digital PR and Communications Report found ...

Channel 4 has announced its new headquarters – outside of London – will be based in Leeds, ending a lengthy pitching process and fierce competition. Leeds defeated many other cities, including Manchester, Cardiff and Birmingham, ...

Social media sites continue to hit the headlines for not tackling fake news, especially since research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that fake stories spread faster than the truth on Twitter. In response, ...

Sarah Stimson, former CEO of the Taylor Bennett Foundation has today launched a new consultancy that aims to help businesses in the creative industry develop their talent and become more diverse. Ladder Talent will work ...

Monday’s Autumn Budget announced a raft of spending across the board. Philip Hammond repeated Theresa May’s Party Conference announcement that austerity is over, albeit with the caveat that it’s ‘finally coming to an end’ – ...

This week’s Political Updates covers moves and changes at all levels of government.    Government departments Reverend Andrew Paul Rumsey has been appointed to the Suffragan See of Ramsbury (more info). Pippa Lambert has been appointed ...

Becky Excell writes the number one baking blog in the UK. Originally started as a way to share gluten-free recipe ideas, the blog has become a major resource for a vast audience with its tasty ...

Last week, Vuelio hosted influencer marketing expert Scott Guthrie for an exclusive webinar covering best practice and fraud in the industry. A lively Q&A showed that PR and comms is still finding its feet with ...

This week’s Five Things You Shouldn’t Have Missed includes the one with the injunction, the one with the David Schwimmer lookalike, the one with the departing Radio 2 host, the one with the Facebook ads ...

Radio Joint Audience Research (RAJAR) has released its quarter-three listening report, which shows that digital listening is at an all-time high. At the start year, digital listening reached its tipping-point when just over half (50.9%) ...

Today’s political headlines include May’s Brexit plans compared to the first circle of hell, rogue landlords exploiting loopholes, three MPs quit committee over bullying scandal and annual spending needs to increase £31bn to meet austerity ...

Anne Pedersen is the head of public relations at Atout France, the French national tourist office in the UK. Responsible for a huge variety of PR functions at Atout France, including media outreach, pitching stories, ...

This week’s Political Updates covers moves and changes at all levels of government.    Government departments Tim Jones, Professor Elaine Kempson and Moray McDonald have been appointed as non-executive directors to the board of the Single ...

Tortoise is the new publishing venture from James Harding, Katie Vanneck-Smith and Matthew Barzun, which aims to disrupt current journalism models with a focus on ‘slow news’. Backed by private investors and a very healthy ...

The PRCA is strengthening its support of virtual agencies by opening a new Business Centre. Based in the PRCA’s south London offices, and available exclusively to PRCA Members, the PRCA Business Centre is open weekdays, ...

Taylor Herring was the big winner at the PRWeek Awards 2018, scooping six awards and being highly commended for a further three. Hot on its heels were 90TEN and The Romans, who both picked up ...