New food agency won’t be stinting on its PR capacity
28 Jan 2000 | by ED SHELTON
A new press office is being established from scratch to support the Food Standards Agency when it launches at the start of April.
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The Post Office has reorganised its PR structure, appointing Paul Budd as group head of PR and eight regional PR heads, having reviewed both internal and external communications.
A new press office is being established from scratch to support the Food Standards Agency when it launches at the start of April.
The Scottish executive has given Scotland s lobbying industry a clean bill of health, five months after allegations of cash-for-influence led to the closure of Beattie Media s public affairs arm.
Leeds City Council has hired Sinclair Mason to handle the media interest expected after the imminent publication of a report by the Office for Standards in Education on its local education authority.
The British Council has recruited Robin Cole-Hamilton, who is currently head of public affairs at the Victoria and Albert Museum, as its new director of communications.
The recruitment crisis continues at Lewisham Council where a cross-party committee of councillors has rejected a candidate for the vacant head of communications post selected by council officers, on grounds which are undisclosed. Until a new candidate is found, the communications department will continue...
Text 100 has been appointed to handle a four-month profile-raising project for the Government s Norwich-based Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency (CCTA), which advises Government departments on IT issues. The work will involve producing publications and promoting the agency to public sector...
Public service watchdog the Audit Commission has appointed a new head of communications. Tim Whitaker will join in February from the Economic and Social Research Council, where he is director of external relations.
The Financial Times (FT) has appointed Brian Groom to replace Robert Peston as political editor. Peston moved this week to become financial editor of the FT, a move which was announced before Christmas. He in turn replaced Martin Dixon, who has moved to the comment-focused role of City editor.
Scottish first minister Donald Dewar wrote last October to the 112 publicly-funded bodies within his remit, asking for details of any PR agency contact they had had since July 1999. The outcome, reported on page two today as having identified no grounds for concern, is flawed.