David Singleton
Associate editor
David manages all aspects of PRWeek’s news coverage, and specialises in public affairs and political communications.
He joined PRWeek in January 2007, having previously worked on the GuardianUnlimited website and the social policy magazines Inside Housing and Children Now.
A keen politico, David started his career at BBC News Online during the 2001 general election, working on the ‘Talking Points’ section of the website where he was responsible for gauging the public's reaction to the infamous 'Prescott punch'.
David has won the Guardian's Student Website of the Year award and has won Haymarket’s Business Journalist of the Year award. In 2008, he was shortlisted for Press Gazette’s News Reporter of the Year award.
In his spare time David enjoys heading to the Academy of Football to watch West Ham and heading to the French alps for a spot of snowboarding.
- HSBC is putting social media at the heart of its UK business growth strategy, with an ambitious blueprint to create a 'dedicated digital offering'.
- Pagefield, the recently established corporate comms and public affairs consultancy, has signed up Sir Christopher Meyer as chairman of its advisory board.
- The body representing the UK offshore oil and gas industry has called in additional lobbying firepower as it fights new European safety regulations.
- Party conferences are increasingly being viewed as a waste of time and money, but for many lobbyists they are crucial. David Singleton examines the case for and against.