The charity Grow Movement has brought in PR firm Rain Communications to drive awareness of its mission, which is to help entrepreneurs in Africa build their businesses.  Grow Movement uses the business consultancy skills of ...

  Carat UK, the Aegis-Group-owned media planning and buying specialist agency, has promoted Matthew Hook to managing director. Dan Hagen, the head of planning, is also promoted to chief strategy officer, filling Matthews’s former role. ...

An interview with Liz Jarvis, author of The Mum Blog. Liz spoke to us about blogging to her own beat, how to start a new blog and the rise of the vlog in 2014. Why ...

The UK’s public confidence in businesses remained stable, while trust in media and the government has dipped.  According to the 2014  edition of global PR agency Edelman’s Trust Barometer, faith in the media, which had staged ...

Following a competitive pitch, Vegesentials, the raw fruit and vegetable drink brand, has appointed Diffusion PR to manage its account ahead of its nationwide launch in Waitrose supermarkets. Vegesentails was up in 2012 by husband ...

An interview with Helen Neale, author of parenting site KiddyCharts and round-up editor at BritMums. Helen spoke to us about the challenging bits of parenting, her printable charts and how new bloggers should read, read ...

‘The week in PR’ is a look at all the top stories in public relations as reported by the UK media in the past seven days. Leading the news this week is Edelman’s 2014 Trust ...

It has been reported that Tony Gallagher has left his role as editor of The Daily Telegraph. Media Guido has published the Telegraph Gallagher Statement in Full, in which it says Gallagher is leaving the ...

An interview with Chris Curtis, author of Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher’s blog – one of Cision’s Top 10 UK Education Blogs. Chris spoke to us about his practical approach, his favourite blogs ...

An interview with Mary Key, author of Keynko – A Crafty Family. Keynko is a family run blog based on crafting, cooking, and life with grown up children and an impending empty nest. The main ...

The Mail Online’s ‘Sidebar of Shame’ appears to be out of sync, providing a variety of unexpected stories. Here are our favourites so far: Ruby Tandoh is a changed woman since the Bake Off: Lauren ...

Brand Revolution, a strategic communications and talent agency, has appointed Sarah Armitage to the newly created role of head of endorsements and brand partnerships.  At Brand Revolution, Sarah will work directly with talent, negotiating and ...

Story PR, the independent food, drink and lifestyle agency, has has added two new businesses to its client portfolio including Rude Health Foods and salad dressing firm, Lucy’s Dressings. Story PR will partner with Rude Health ...

An interview with assistant headteacher Ross Morrison McGill, author of the new paperback 100 Ideas: Outstanding Lessons, the education blog @TeacherToolkit, and @SLTchat – a forum for senior teachers recently recognised by The Department for ...

Hill+Knowlton Strategies (H+K) has won a three-way competitive pitch for the public relations brief for TV shopping firm, QVC. The business is reportedly worth a six-figure sum.  H+K replaces incumbent Mischief PR to help QVC ...

A Spotlight of London’s latest weekend guide, Friday’s Child. We spoke to creator Nicky Clarke, who is a freelance journalist and restaurant PR. He previously had a travel column in the Independent called The Hedonist, ...

An interview with Nickie O’Hara, author of the blog Typecast. Nickie spoke to Cision about her off-centre journey through life, her other blog Geekalicious and working with PRs. Why should people read your blog? People ...

Jelly is a new app from Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter. Created as a new kind of search engine, Jelly aims to crowdsource answers to ‘picture’ questions from your existing social following. For example, I ...

‘The week in PR’ is a look at all the top stories in public relations as reported by the UK media in the past seven days. Leading the news this week is Cision’s Top 10 ...

An interview with Neville Hobson, the most influential PR blogger in Vuelio’s Top 10 UK PR Blogs. Neville spoke to Vuelio about his blog Nevillehobson.com, not ranting in posts, good PR and his hopes for 2014. Why ...