Boris Johnson appoints BBC's Will Walden as comms director
25 May 2012 | by Matt Cartmell
Mayor of London Boris Johnson has appointed the BBC's Westminster news editor to be his new director of comms.
The Tokyo 2020 bid committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games has appointed Weber Shandwick as its global agency.
Mayor of London Boris Johnson has appointed the BBC's Westminster news editor to be his new director of comms.
Daily deal site DiscountVouchers.co.uk has hired Rooster PR to handle its UK comms.
The Culture Secretary's special adviser 'overstepped the mark' while News International's lobbyist was 'too fast and loose', according to public affairs professionals.
Debenhams has revamped its comms team with a number of senior hires, to more closely align the company's comms with its strategy.
A social care group whose efforts led to the creation of a shadow minster for older people is seeking an agency to help continue its campaign.
I wrote in one of these columns three years ago that watching different parts of the public sector trying to talk to each other was rather initially amusing, but ultimately rather depressing.
Splendid Communications has beaten off competition from four rival agencies to retain the Smirnoff account the agency has held since its inception.
Oli Wheeler, board director at Freud Communications and longstanding right hand man to Matthew Freud, is leaving the famous consultancy after 18 years.
The advertising industry has urged MPs to reject growing demands for a ban on alcohol ads. In a submission to the Commons Health Select Committee, the Advertising Association argued: "An advertising ban is not the solution to the complex problem of harmful alcohol consumption."