Daily deal site DiscountVouchers.co.uk has hired Rooster PR to handle its UK comms.
25 May 2012
-based global head of media and PR....She joins from Natixis Global Asset Management in London, where she
oversaw PR activities in Europe, Middle East and North Africa and Asia.
Before that, she headed the Asia-Pacific PR team at Dow ...
, according to an interim management statement released last
week. Sophie Moate has joined City agency ...
The CIPR has called on the PR industry to help in its fight to improve the ethical use of Wikipedia...for PROs editing the site .
However, Wikipedia editors have used the online forum to disparage the PR ...
will not accept the PR industry as a source of accurate information'.
Another administrator, John Vandenberg, wrote that engaging PR people is 'draining our resources and enthusiasm from the important parts ...
24 May 2012
| by John Owens
Efforts to overhaul the way that PR is handled within the NHS have been thwarted after failing...Plans for a centralised 'hub and spoke' model, revealed by PRWeek (17 June, 2011) were knocked back at the second hurdle by the NHS Commissioning Board Authority.
The planned NHS Communications and Engagement Service model was designed to ensure comms kept up with a restructure of healthcare in the UK ...
23 May 2012
| by Hannah Crown
Visit Florida has a $400,000 ( 253,200) per year search under way for PR, marketing and sales ...
,300) for PR and $300,000 ( 190,000) for sales and marketing for 2012/13. The one-year contract has the option ...
to Gosh PR for the past year. It has not been confirmed whether Gosh is repitching for the account ...
Alastair Campbell is taking his first permanent job in PR since leaving Downing Street in 2003...He will work for CEO Tim Allan, his former deputy in Tony Blair s office, and will concentrate on strategic corporate comms, crisis management work and mentoring the Portland team.
Campbell told PRWeek ...
for Tony Blair is due to be published shortly.
Campbell s PR career
Last year, Campbell ...
22 May 2012
| by John Owens
Premier League champions Manchester City have a search under way for an agency to promote...Super League games played over two days.
Previously known as the City of Manchester Stadium ...
Liverpool FC's PR manager Craig Evans is the latest comms professional to leave the club, PRWeek...Evans, who joined the club ten months ago, resigned a few months ago but agreed to stay until the end of the season. He was responsible for the Premiership club s community and commercial PR activities.
Evans is leaving to launch his own agency called Good Evans and will continue to work ...
at broadening access to the PR industry....to employment in PR. It focused on internships, apprenticeships, diversity and opportunities for the disabled ...
and apprenticeships are already being enacted. The onus for increasing diversity in PR is not just with the PRCA improving best practice, but with us PR consultants, who must effect lasting change by becoming best ...
22 May 2012
| by John Owens
', PR professionals have been told at a meeting outlining comms in a post-COI world....' reactions to the conference, read this week's PRWeek. ...