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In a year in which many of its rivals suffered, Shine Communications has prospered, and with good reason.
It gives you an idea of the parlous state of the PR agency sector when the chairman of industry body the Public Relations Consultants Association (PRCA), Graham Lancaster, describes the average 10% fall in revenues in 2003 as "slightly better than last year".
LONDON - The US put meticulous planning in place to ensure that the media announcement of the capture of Saddam Hussein did not backfire in the same way that the shooting of his two sons Uday and Qusay did in July.
Cake managing director Darren Thomas has resigned. Thomas will leave the agency, which he joined two years ago, at the end of the year. No replacement has yet been appointed.
The Scottish Press Association has expanded its team with the appointment of Rachel Blackburn to the newly created role of features editor.
A new magazine for brides-to-be is to launch in January.
CHILDREN NOW: Haymarket Publishing has acquired quarterly title Children Now from the National Children's Bureau and is relaunching it as a weekly from 7 January 2004. Edited by Stovin Hayter, it will have a circulation of 25,000, encompassing managers and senior practitioners in the children's services...
THE SUN: Suzanne Kerins has been appointed deputy editor of The Sun's Bizarre pop and gossip pages. Kerins, who currently edits the showbusiness page at the Sunday Mirror, will report to Bizarre editor Victoria Newton. Kerins replaced Polly Graham, who left the paper earlier this year to take up a similar...
SKY NEWS: Michelle May has been made North of England correspondent for Sky News. Formerly a senior reporter at Granada Television in Manchester, she replaces Ian Dovaston, who is moving to Sky's London operation as senior reporter. May was at Granada for five years and has also worked for HTV, BBC...
LIFE ON SUNDAY: A new Sunday paper with an emphasis on family values is gearing up for a launch next year. Life on Sunday is to be aimed at a mid-market readership and will be run from the North of England. It has been founded by former newspaper executives including Nick Thompson, who was previously...
