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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From the Editor-in-Chief: 2020’s changes in ethical capitalism could be a game-changer
TS Eliot famously branded April ‘the cruellest month’. Personally, I’d opt for October.
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PRWeek UK launches Top 150 Consultancies Interim Barometer
PRWeek is launching a major new business barometer to gauge how consultancies are faring during this tumultuous year, and their predictions for 2021.
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From the editor-in-chief: As we enter Q4, comms leaders agonise over the right size and shape for their businesses
We find ourselves in Q4 of this difficult year, which starts to bring some long-term perspective - both backward, and forward-looking.
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UAE utility giant Taqa names senior British energy exec as new comms chief
Taqa, the giant merged utility in Abu Dhabi, has hired an experienced British energy comms executive as its chief communications officer.
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Edelman announces new focus on ‘action communications’ and corporate affairs in wake of COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter
Richard Edelman, CEO of the world’s biggest PR firm, has launched a new mantra for his agency; challenging the comms sector and business in general to focus on action rather than words.
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From the editor-in-chief: The mood darkens but there’s growing evidence corporate affairs is reaching peak influence
The world, including the media and comms sector, now feels a subtly different place to the one before we were first locked down six months ago.
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WPP names first global corporate affairs chief
WPP, the world’s biggest marketing services group, has hired its first ever global corporate affairs director with the aim of improving the firm’s reputation and highlighting its corporate purpose, PRWeek can reveal.
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Soho House on hunt for new comms chief
Soho House & Co’s chief communications and strategy officer has left the global chain of private members clubs he joined in 2013.
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EasyJet comms chief Flic Howard-Allen departs
EasyJet’s chief communications officer, who was also a member of its management board, has departed the airline as it makes thousands of redundancies in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, PRWeek has learned.
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From the editor-in-chief: Some bosses asking staff to spend at least half the week in the office as they tackle key autumn phase
So, the summer is over and it’s back to school for the kids (fingers crossed) and back to work for the adults. Or is it? More on that in a moment.
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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.