The biggest PR agencies are merging. Sir Martin Sorrell has been ousted from WPP. Management consultants are circling the industry. Is it the end of the road for PR’s old business model? By Ruth Sunderland, In the roaring 1980s a new phenomenon burst into life, along with puffball skirts, Beaujolais nouveau and brick-sized mobile phones. …
In the first in a mini-series, Paula Keaveney MCIPR explores the importance of the Party Conference season in communicating with party members and the wider electorate. Party political conferences are about more than a get together. They are opportunities for a party to communicate to a wider world as well as to some of …
By Anne Marie-Lacey I’ve been a Chartered PR practitioner for a little over a year now, and still look back on the day with fond memories. In fact, it was only yesterday I was chatting with a peer who is preparing for her assessment day, and I was recounting my experience of what the …
Internal comms can often feel like the poor relation to PR in the public sector, but with the current workforce challenges facing the NHS it’s becoming more important than ever before. The always excellent NHS provider comms network focused on internal communications this time around and it’s clear that this is something at the top …
CIPR CAPSIG research regarding women in construction PR and marketing showed considerable pride in working in the sector, and recommended some changes to help develop a better, more diverse industry. Colleges and others are also taking practical steps – not turning into propagandists with another ‘lipstick on a pig’ campaign. The image of construction has …
The invention of the Northern Powerhouse aimed to bolster the north of England, rebalance the economy, secure devolution, and give it a presence on the global stage to help secure inward investment. But the halcyon days of constant positive announcements from Government have long gone. Now the North needs to fight even harder for the …
By Niki Wheeler, Director, Launch, How’s business? The question of the urbane networker at a drinks party or conference, over dinner once you’ve done the ordering or before you talk specifics in a meeting. This opener is the corporate equivalent of ‘how are you?’, more professionally geared than ‘what have you been up to?’ and the …
