Danny Rogers
Editor-in-chief, PRWeek UKDanny Rogers is one of the UK's pre-eminent journalists covering the world of advertising, PR, marketing and media. He has edited PRWeek and Campaign and been deputy editor of Marketing. Danny has also been a contributing editor to the Financial Times and the Guardian. He has won Editor of the Year at the British Society of Magazine Editors and been twice shortlisted as Editor of the Year by the PPA. Danny is also a frequent contributor to broadcast and print media, including a regular column in the Independent.
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PRCA cuts staff to lower costs amid restructure
The Public Relations and Communications Association (PRCA) has announced a handful of “painful” redundancies in a bid to break even for this financial year.
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From the editor-in-chief: lost revenues, big media cuts – how PR must adapt post-COVID-19
It’s the end of July. Many of us have now been working from home continuously for 20 weeks. So how are comms professionals doing after nearly five months of this enduring crisis?
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From the editor-in-chief: "The workplace is becoming the 'wokeplace'." Growing employee activism can create challenges
In my blog last week on ‘the China question’ I touched on the growing sense that employees will take a stand on their own employer’s activities, even its view on big political issues.
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Threesixty hires ex-Sky TV producer to head new broadcast arm
Threesixty, the comms and marketing operation within the Casbah Group, has hired a former Sky TV producer to head up a new broadcast division.
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From the editor-in-chief: ‘The China question’ is starting to have a big impact on PR pros, in both the UK and US
The major comms story this week has been the escalating war of words between the West and China, symbolised most acutely in the commercial world by Huawei being removed from Britain’s 5G network plans.
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PRWeek PR360 goes virtual for 2020 with top speakers confirmed
Comms directors for Dove, the British Olympic Association, Just Eat, and the UK Government are among the speakers at PRWeek’s biggest annual conference, PR360, which takes place in the second week of September.
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Teneo names new UK leadership team including CEO
Teneo, the corporate and political comms consultancy, has a new UK leadership team from this month, one year after CVC Capital Partners bought a majority stake in the agency, PRWeek has learned.
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From the editor-in-chief: Corporate comms now has ‘key worker’ status - but is Finsbury's merger what crisis-hit firms need?
After four months of the COVID-19 crisis at least one area of marketing and communications is looking even stronger than it was before.
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Flop of the Month: Novak Djokovic serves up COVID-19 infections in error-strewn display
Tennis ace caught partying and observing few social distancing rules shocked fans and led to a spate of coronavirus infections. The incident may have caused irrevocable damage to Djokovic's reputation.
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From the editor-in-chief: ‘I want my staff back in the office by September’ – the divisive question of the Big Return to Work
For 16 weeks we’ve been working from home. For nearly four months we’ve been glued to our laptops, switching between email and Zoom, valiantly reinventing our work routine. And now, somehow, we are in July.
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Exclusive: Digital natives see PR as 'press releases and gin-soaked lunches' – Sorrell
Digital natives view public relations as an “analogue” discipline, associating it with “press releases" and "gin-soaked lunches”, according to S4 Capital boss Sir Martin Sorrell.
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Exclusive: Rick Stein group appoints its first UK PR agency
Rick Stein, one of the UK’s best-loved chefs, has taken on Sauce Communications to build the brand of his group of restaurants and products, PRWeek can reveal.
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From the editor-in-chief: what brand comms trends would have been revealed at Cannes had it not been cancelled?
I’d usually spend this week at Cannes Lions, as a delegate or speaker, analysing the megatrends in brand behaviour and campaigning; trying to predict how comms and marketing pros can run successful programmes in the future.
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Italian Tourism Board hires PR agency to drive UK tourism
The Italian Tourist Board has appointed The Brighter Group (TBG) to help drive tourism from the UK as the country attempts to recover from the COVID-19 epidemic, PRWeek can reveal.
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Exclusive: Ex-Weber UK boss Rachel Friend joins W Communications as CEO
W Communications, the 10-year-old consumer PR shop founded by Warren Johnson, has hired former Weber Shandwick boss Rachel Friend as its new CEO.
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From the editor-in-chief: return of sport an emotional boost, but firms eyeing 50 per cent revenue drops and job cuts
Despite some pretty terrible news on national unemployment, with wave upon wave of job cuts, the return of elite sport this week feels symbolic of a new optimism in Britain.
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All England Club launches campaign to 'recreate' Wimbledon
Despite the world’s most famous tennis championships being cancelled this year, the All England Club (AELTC) will tomorrow (Thursday) launch a campaign designed to maintain interest in brand ‘Wimbledon’, PRWeek can reveal.
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Middle East Power Book: Comms chiefs warn of 'triple threat' to region's PR industry
Industry leaders named in PRWeek’s Middle East Power Book have spoken about the immediate and medium-term health of PR and communications in the region.
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PRWeek launches Middle East Power Book 2020
PRWeek launched its second annual Middle East Power Book today, featuring the top comms professionals in the region plus their views on current issues affecting the market.
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LTA hires senior BBC comms figure as head of corporate affairs
The LTA, the governing body for British tennis, has hired a senior BBC executive as its new head of corporate affairs.