The Community PR Initiative (CPRI) has matched 60 charities and NHS teams with 100 volunteer comms professionals in an effort to help with communication during the current crisis. Launched in early April, the initiative has ...

Results from the PRCA’s second international Business Confidence Tracker shows a growth in positivity among senior agency and in-house leaders around the world when it comes to the future of their businesses. Respondents to the ...

Helen Croydon, founder of Thought Leadership PR, three-time author and former journalist and broadcaster of 15 years can now add podcast host to her list of accolades. The Media Insider Podcast was launched by Helen ...

The Women in PR and PRWeek Mentoring Programme, now in its seventh year, opened for applications on Monday 11 May as a completely digital scheme. With 25 mentee spaces (five earmarked for Women in PR ...

This is a guest post from Clare Wall, co-founder and director of Firework PR. When we set up Firework PR, we wanted to break the traditional agency model and focus on building a consultancy that ...

This is a guest post from Laura Bamford, PR Manager at Motive PR. It’s always important for brands to be perceived as authentic, but even more so now than ever. We’re living in unprecedented times, ...

Statistics on the spread of coronavirus, updates on advances in treatment, instructions on lockdown mental wellbeing and self-isolation safety – health journalists across the media are under increasing pressure to report accurate data and keep ...

This is a guest post from Richard Middleton, leadership consultant at Middleton Consultancy Ltd and senior consultant with Engaging Business. As a leader you may be feeling pressure right now to balance maintaining performance, creating ...

‘We need to be honest with ourselves – the industry will end 2020 smaller than it began it,’ is how PRCA director general Francis Ingham sums up results from the industry body’s Pulse survey examining ...

We’ve been speaking to PR parents who are balancing home life with work from home life. In this second part, you can pick up advice and reassurance from peers managing focus, sharing and ‘remote babysitting’. ...

Are you struggling to keep up with work while keeping children fed, watered and entertained during lockdown? You’re not alone. A recent Marketing Week and Econsultancy survey of 1,990 of our cousins in marketing across ...

While the COVID-19 crisis presents challenges for agencies, business and organisations across all levels, their communications teams are under increasing pressure to prepare and plan for strong recoveries when the wider economy starts to improve. ...

You may know the NLA as the company you have to pay a licensing fee to for access to print and online monitoring clips and coverage. It was founded in 1996 by publishers including Associated ...

‘The beauty industry is so intrinsically linked with how we feel about ourselves and has such a great power to boost our mood – which has never been more important.’ There’s much more to beauty ...

The Chartered Institute of Public Relations has launched Progress, a free mentoring scheme for its members providing a space for discussion, opportunities and planning out future career paths. Progress launches with 48 mentors who will ...

The PRCA is reconfiguring its model to deliver services by reducing central costs. Changes announced include director general Francis Ingham reducing his pay to zero, pay reductions for all staff, and a furloughing of a ...

This is a guest post from Carie Barkhuizen, founder of Seymour PR, on building a positive brand identity during unusual times. Your brand identity is how customers perceive you. During these unprecedented times, it can ...

A free consultation service for communications leaders in need of support or advice through the COVID-19 crisis has been launched by the PRCA’s Global COVID-19 Taskforce. Led by Lansons chief executive and co-founder Tony Langham ...

We regularly speak to our community to find out how they work and what best practice looks like. We’ve recently been talking to journalists who use the ResponseSource Journalist Enquiry Service to source information and ...

The PR industry has had to shift its focus over the last few months, as what counts as important changes day by day. Having announced upcoming work with charity I Can Be in time for ...