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The best PR campaigns of the decade (vote for your favourite)
PRWeek has picked 10 of the best PR campaigns from the 2010s, but we need your expertise to decide which one comes out top...
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'The written word isn't going to disappear but it's no longer always supreme' - Grilled with Amy Lane, Women's Health
Women's Health digital editor Amy Lane discusses her daily routine, PR pitching, and why her mother was the female Joe Wicks of the 1990s.
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Hope&Glory names joint MDs as founders take creative and client-focused roles
Hope&Glory has appointed two joint MDs, as co-founders James Gordon-Macintosh and Jo Carr move to senior creative and client roles respectively to "get even closer to the work", PRWeek can reveal.
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Edelman UK makes senior corporate hires from Ogilvy and MHP
Edelman UK has bolstered its newly expanded corporate affairs practice by hiring Ogilvy corporate affairs chief Jeremy Lucas to lead the corporate reputation team, alongside the appointment of MHP's corporate MD Andy Bloxham.
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Flop of the Month: Prince Andrew's reputation in tatters after Newsnight interview disaster
Recent weeks have seen some truly awful media interviews.
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Bibi Hilton steps down as Golin London MD, deputy MD also departs
Bibi Hilton is stepping down as MD of Golin London to oversee the Unilever business across parent company Interpublic, while deputy MD Emily Luscombe is also leaving the agency.
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PRCA Fast Track mentoring programme relaunches for 2020
The PRCA has launched the 2020 iteration of its Fast Track mentoring programme
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SEC Newgate reveals global acquisition targets and makes Africa debut
Newly-formed holding company SEC Newgate is targeting the US in particular for acquisitions and plans to open an office in Beijing over the next three years. It has also made its Africa debut - in Morocco.
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PRWeek relaunches survey into mental health in PR
PRWeek has re-launched a survey looking at attitudes towards mental health in the PR and comms industry.
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FTI hires ex-Times leader writer and private equity trade body chief
FTI Consulting has hired Tim Hames, former director general of the British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (BVCA), as a senior advisor in its strategic communications arm in London.
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Landsec names new corporate affairs and sustainability chief as incumbent steps down
Landsec, the UK's biggest commercial property development and investment firm, has promoted Caroline Hill to group corporate affairs and sustainability director on the retirement of Miles Webber, PRWeek has learned.
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Who are the top political 'influencers'? Deadline extended to nominate for PRWeek/PRCA project
PRWeek readers are urged to nominate the individuals they consider to be the most significant social media influencers affecting UK politics, and be included in a major upcoming feature in PRWeek.
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Poundland scraps in-house comms function, hires new agency led by ex-PR chiefs
Poundland has disbanded its in-house comms function, and moved control of consumer PR to a new agency co-founded by the retailer's former corporate brand and PR manager and an ex-Asda comms chief, PRWeek has learned.
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Tropes can only get you so far - is lack of original thinking hampering campaigns?
They say there's no such thing as an original idea any more. But at what point does a campaign concept move from homage or 'trope' to outright idea theft?
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Who are the top political 'influencers'? Nominate now for PRWeek/PRCA project
PRWeek readers are urged to nominate the individuals they consider to be the most significant social media influencers affecting UK politics.
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Exclusive: Finn Partners buys London consumer PR agency
Finn Partners has continued its acquisition programme by buying London-based consumer PR specialist ZPR, with another acquisition in Europe on the cards, PRWeek can reveal.
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Richmond & Towers becomes 100 per cent employee-owned
Richmond & Towers claims to be the UK's first PR agency to be 100 per cent employee-owned, following its sale to a new Employee Ownership Trust (EOT).
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Deal in facts, knowledge is power... how to make bosses value internal comms more
Three panelists for PRWeek's must-attend Strategic Internal Communications conference discuss getting internal comms up the c-suite agenda.
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Top of the month: Unilever's plastics pledge shows leadership
Unilever enhanced its reputation as a leader in sustainability when it pledged to halve the amount of plastic it uses over the next five years.
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Flop of the Month: Extinction Rebellion risks alienating public
Extinction Rebellion's goodwill will soon evaporate if it continues poorly-targeted and uncoordinated attacks that annoy the very people they need on their side.
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