HOTLINE: Save the Children pitch is narrowed down
28 Sep 2001
The pitch for the Save the Children account has been narrowed down to three agencies. Mother, Burkitt DDB and Catalyst have been shortlisted for the business.
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Delegates at the Liberal Democrat conference attacked the "negative advertising" by Labour and the Tories at this year's general election, saying it had helped to turn off the voters from politics. The criticism came at a fringe meeting on Tuesday, hosted by the Advertising Association...
The pitch for the Save the Children account has been narrowed down to three agencies. Mother, Burkitt DDB and Catalyst have been shortlisted for the business.
British Airways has withdrawn its offer to donate its 96-sheet poster site on London's Cromwell Road to Save the Children because the ad was deemed too controversial in the aftermath of the US terrorist attacks. The poster, produced by M&C Saatchi, features two young girls - one Muslim, one...
Voluntary Services Overseas is launching a press campaign to help increase its levels of volunteer recruitment. The response campaign, through Leonardo, will run both in national and trade professional press and is backed by direct mail and online activity. Leonardo has developed...
Definition of a coward: someone who thinks with his legs. There seem to be a lot of clients legging it at the moment. Running scared. And who can blame them? These are not good times. Human instinct says survival is about keeping your damn head down. Lie low. Keep stumm. Yet the...
Anti-war protest groups have stepped up communications as the threat of large-scale US military attacks against alleged terrorist targets looms. More than 70 media workers, including journalists from the BBC, ITV and national newspapers, have been persuaded by campaigners to adopt a statement...
The World Trade Center Disaster Fund - the UK charity set up to support families of those killed in the 11 September attacks in the US - is staging a low-key PR campaign to keep donations rolling in. A team of PROs from Hill 350,000. The charity is encouraging individuals and corporations...
Gordon Reece, the political communicator credited with shaping Margaret Thatcher's public image, has died aged 71. Reece worked with the Tory prime minister as opposition leader in the 1970s, and in Downing Street after she won the 1979 general election. His work for Thatcher was...
The Greater London Authority is on the hunt for a corporate communications chief for the second time in less than a year following the surprise resignation of Charlotte Rowe. Rowe quit her post as executive director of communications earlier this week after just ten months heading the GLA's...
CHARITY: Neil Thorns, who quit as British Red Cross press chief three weeks ago, has joined Sight Savers International as head of communications. He heads a five-strong team at the Sussex based charity and reports to director of fundraising and communications Jennie Meadows.