The General Medical Council (GMC) has appointed its first director of communications, following widespread criticism that the organisation has been slow to respond to issues affecting the medical profession.
NATO may have learnt the importance of media strategy as a result of the Kosovo conflict, but any change of senior military personnel could yet leave it unprepared in the case of war, said NATO spokesperson Jamie Shea at the PR Week Best Practice conference last week.
Eclat Marketing has been appointed by computer software giant Microsoft to support its community affairs activities in the UK.
The London Borough of Camden s communications head Deirdre Colledge is revamping the communications function in a bid to improve staff retention in the department. The move will see the appointment of a deputy to current press and PR head Moira Whittle, adding a layer of management above the press office...
Rathbone Community Industry, the training charity for people with special educational needs, has appointed Alison Littlewood to the newly-created post of communications and marketing manager. Before her appointment, PR had come under the remit of marketing head Louise MacShane. Littlewood was previously...
The London Borough of Ealing s PR head Jide Odusina is restructuring his department to bring in a deputy to manage the day-to-day operations of the council s press office. The appointment is a departure from the previous flat structure within the media relations team which had seen each PRO reporting...
GCI s public affairs arm, Political Counsel, has won a three-way pitch to handle media and public affairs for Workforce, the charitable body which assesses and guides young people with special needs to suitable support organisations. GCI s brief is to position Workforce as the first contact for young...
The Women s Royal Voluntary Service (WRVS), a body whose community support work ranges from supporting the emergency services to providing meals on wheels, is to create 32 new PR roles in order to raise its profile.
BRUSSELS: European Union moves to sponsor the changover to the single currency will lead to a windfall for continental PR agencies, as countries which have signed up to the euro prepare campaigns to mark the introduction of notes and coins in 2002.
State Department spokesman James Rubin is stepping down in April. Rubin, assistant secretary of state for public affairs, is leaving to join his wife, CNN reporter Christiane Amanpour, in London. His successor will be Richard Boucher, who served as spokesperson for secretaries of state James Baker,...
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