Sarah Lee is tasked with leading Scotland’s comms profession through a period of industry transformation.
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Agency founder named chair of CIPR Scotland
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CIPR launches internal crisis comms guide
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New guidance seeks to fill the gap left by traditional approaches to crisis communications.
Calisen appoints its first corporate affairs director
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Sorrelle Harper joins a raft of high-profile new hires at the smart meter provider.
Ex-Nationwide PR joins NatWest as media lead
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NatWest has hired a media relations lead for commercial and institutional banking.
Covid-19 fraud report recommends new comms framework
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‘Compliance campaigns’ were a factor in billions that were lost to fraud in Covid-19 support schemes having to be written off.
Pool Re comms chief awarded life peerage
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A Labour grandee who heads up communications at the UK’s largest terrorism reinsurer has been nominated as a life peer.
Intranet will be ‘top priority channel’ for internal comms in 2026
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Email is seen as the most effective tool but research finds communicators want to invest more time or resources in intranets next year.
Trade body for opticians elevates comms
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The Association of British Dispensing Opticians (ABDO) has created a new senior comms role.
‘How do you tell the stories of a more pragmatic era of climate action?’
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The problem hasn’t changed, but how we talk about solving it needs to be very different now.
‘Getting content from other departments’ proves tricky for internal comms
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A new report has revealed some of the biggest challenges facing internal comms teams, including inter-departmental collaboration.
Ex-BBC sports editor to lead comms at football regulator
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A comms strategy is being developed to promote the work of the fledgling regulator which was established in September.
‘The value of real human connection has never been clearer’
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In-person communications will always build trust faster than virtual briefings.
Cricket board hires former government comms director
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The ECB has taken on a new comms director to help grow cricket’s reach and relevance.
Samsung UK head of comms switches to energy supplier
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Lindsay Landi is set to step down as head of PR and communications to take up a new in-house comms role at Good Energy.
Electoral Commission boosts digital team
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The Electoral Commission has made a senior hire to help it develop its digital comms.
Legal & General hires internal comms specialist
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The financial services giant is boosting internal comms at its asset management arm.
Turn comms from order taker to strategic partner
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With many CCOs seemingly facing an existential crisis thanks to AI, here are the barriers standing in the way of success, and the steps needed to clear them.
Brewing giant’s corporate affairs director heads east
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James Crampton takes his 25 years’ experience from Heineken UK to Vietnam.
‘Communicating ESG is more important than ever in these challenging times’
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Sustainability and social commitments are contested topics but the new rules we are operating under offer some great opportunities.
Healthcare comms director joins biopharma company, in first in-house role
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Jordan McKibben will represent the public affairs team within steering committees and work to develop patient comms and advocacy at Gilead Sciences.
National Museum of the Royal Navy hires first comms and digital lead
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The organisation, which has six sites across the UK, has created a new senior role to oversee comms and digital engagement.
‘Fast action is often the best way to fail when crisis hits’
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Humans resort to instinctive behaviour under pressure, which is why you need to hardwire a calm perspective into your crisis response.
Nearly 1,000 applicants chase single job in public affairs
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The extraordinary level of interest in a role at the London School of Economics has prompted the university’s head of public affairs to offer some timely careers advice.
AI search favours reputation over fast or visually impressive websites, new study finds
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Traditional search is being pushed out in favour of AI search, but some impressive looking, SEO-optimised websites are slipping past the algorithms.
‘AI makes soft skills the new hard currency in the comms profession’
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As the technology becomes more powerful, the true value of in-house comms professionals lies in their uniquely human skills, such as their ability to connect, empathise and strategically influence culture and behaviour.
Gym King brings PR in-house with new hire
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The fashion brand has recruited its first communications manager.
Barts Charity hires first director of fundraising and comms
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The East London healthcare charity has created a new senior comms role.
JPMorgan Chase hires public affairs executive to join government relations team
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Jonathan Lima-Matthews will help shape policy and advocacy strategies across the EMEA region.
Prime minister urged to remove comms figure from BBC board
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Robbie Gibb, a former director of communications at Downing Street, is under mounting pressure to step down from his role as a BBC board member amid concerns over his impartiality.
Veteran Unilever comms chief steps down after almost two decades
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Rebecca Marmot, chief sustainability and corporate affairs officer at Unilever, hands the baton to a former Big Four comms leader.
Police Federation turns to experienced comms leader to manage reputation
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Gabriel Milland, an ex-journalist who has held senior in-house and agency roles, has been brought in to lead external affairs at the scandal-hit police body.
Comms reshuffle at luxury yacht brand
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Sunseeker, the Poole-based luxury yacht brand, has split responsibility for marketing and sales.
Use your senior leaders as strategic assets
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To engage stakeholders effectively it’s becoming ever more important for comms teams to deploy senior leadership in a strategic way.
Comms job descriptions ‘getting wildly out of hand’
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An industry insider’s social media post about comms job descriptions has prompted a lively debate about the state of recruitment in the sector.
Internal comms is ‘a strategic asset’, not just an information delivery tool
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Going beyond just information dissemination, internal communications is a vital, two-way process that builds trust, shapes culture and drives organisational success, says a new report
WPI Strategy associate director switches to National Energy System Operator
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Charlotte Butterick goes back in-house, as public affairs manager for England at energy operator, after leaving consultancy role.
CIPR names future president after three-way contest
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The CIPR has revealed who will become its president in 2027, after three industry leaders battled it out.
Is wall-to-wall media coverage still achievable?
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Comms and PR experts came together to discuss how to achieve widespread media coverage in a rapidly evolving, fragmented and AI-driven landscape.
Protect yourself from AI brand drift
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With web searches aggregating mentions of your brand into a single listing, how can you help ensure they are accurate?
PRWeek UK Awards 2025: In-house team win ‘Issues and Reputation Management’
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Information Commissioner’s Office scoops win for turning an organisation’s error into a learning opportunity for others.
Housing body boosts comms team
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The Chartered Institute of Housing has hired a new head of policy and external affairs.
Save the Children director leaves for Refuge
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Domestic abuse charity Refuge has finally found a permanent director of fundraising, communications and policy more than a year after the post became vacant.
PRWeek UK Awards 2025: Who scooped the coveted in-house trophies?
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The annual awards celebrate outstanding achievements across the industry.
Ex-funeral director joins Which? external affairs team
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A communications professional with an unconventional career path has joined the team at Which?.
PR spending set to grow, new report reveals
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The confidence of companies in their financial future reaches positive territory for the first time in more than a year, despite a “challenging” climate.
TPT Retirement Solutions appoints head of policy and external affairs
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The workplace pension provider has recruited a former policy specialist at Pensions UK to the newly created role.
PR agency director returns in-house
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Joe Moor has left Hanbury Strategy after six years to take up a senior corporate affairs role in-house.
University of Westminster hires new comms head
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Andrew Bate has been recruited to head up a nine-strong team working across corporate media relations and PR, public affairs, and colleague and student communications.
Ex-minister joins Make UK to lead external affairs
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Robert Halfon has taken charge of policy and external affairs at the manufacturing trade body.