This is a guest post from Alec Samways, CEO and head of creative strategy at Splendid Communications. The seemingly never-ending newsworthiness of a pandemic that has delivered daily stats, statements, scares and scandals for weeks ...

This is a guest post from Charlie Terry, founder & managing director at CEEK Marketing. Every modern-day PR knows that adding an element of digital marketing to a campaign can work wonders, and with the ...

82% of PR and communications professionals surveyed by CIPR’s Health Group answered ‘yes’ to having felt an impact on their mental health during the coronavirus pandemic. The survey, exploring the impact of the COVID-19 crisis ...

This is a guest post from Natalie Trice, award winning PR coach and lecturer. While PE with Joe Wicks, growing veg in the garden, and clapping for carers on Thursday nights may have been part ...

PRFest has launched the DRIVEN Pledge to help tackle inclusion, diversity and equality issues within the PR and communications industry. The DRIVEN Pledge tool is available free to industry leaders and professionals working to make ...

This is a guest post from Rick Guttridge, managing director of Smoking Gun. After a challenging few months for PR and media professionals in the health and wellbeing sector, opportunity might be on the horizon. ...

For no-nonsense tips on how to hype up your business, Lucy Werner is here to help. Founder of The Wern and author of Hype Yourself: A no-nonsense DIY PR toolkit for small businesses, Lucy wants ...

This is a guest post from John Ashton, director of Write Arm. If you’ve spent the last four months at home wondering what the future holds, it’s possible that you’ve thought about starting your own ...

The PRCA has revealed changes to its Board of Directors following last week’s announcement of amendments to its governance structure. Joining the board are Kamiqua Pearce, Rimmi Shah, Ondine Whittington and Hugh Taggart MPRCA. Barbara ...

‘Black and Brown people currently working in the PR and communications industry have a rod running up our spines made of some otherworldly material,’ says Barbara Phillips, Chair of the PRCA’s newly launched Race and ...

PR and communications has undeniable issues when it comes to race, class and gender. Numerous studies and campaigns have shown that the workforce is primarily made up of those from white, middle-class backgrounds. As the ...

This is a guest post by John Ashton, director of copywriting agency Write Arm. A new peer-to-peer support network has launched for home-based comms professionals who want to run their own agencies. The KitchenTable Community ...

The last few months have been some of the most extraordinary with CV19 disrupting every aspect of how we live and work. Under intense pressure, PR and Communications teams have grappled with ever changing news, ...

Having worked in the charity sector for over 20 years with a focus on mobility and diversity, Melissa Lawrence was drawn to join the Taylor Bennett Foundation and its mission to improve ethnic diversity in ...

Fears of illness in the workplace, returns to busy commutes on public transport and disrupted working cultures – just some of the concerns causing 40% of leaders in PR and comms to continue with remote ...

This is a guest post from Rose Allerston, senior account director at Smoking Gun. At the beginning of the year, the team at Smoking Gun sat down to carefully analyse the global consumer trends that ...

Whether working from home is working for you, or you’re desperate to the return to the pace of office life, the prospect of an eventual move back to your workplace desk post-lockdown is going to ...

The PRCA has launched its Global Ethics Council to uphold ethical standards across the public relations and communications industry. Omnicom international president (and former PRCA chairman and ICCO president) David Gallagher is the inaugural chairman ...

The Community PR Initiative (CPRI) has matched 60 charities and NHS teams with 100 volunteer comms professionals in an effort to help with communication during the current crisis. Launched in early April, the initiative has ...

While the COVID-19 crisis presents challenges for agencies, business and organisations across all levels, their communications teams are under increasing pressure to prepare and plan for strong recoveries when the wider economy starts to improve. ...