Hill+Knowlton Strategies (H+K) has won a three-way competitive pitch for the public relations brief for TV shopping firm, QVC. The business is reportedly worth a six-figure sum.  H+K replaces incumbent Mischief PR to help QVC ...

A Spotlight of London’s latest weekend guide, Friday’s Child. We spoke to creator Nicky Clarke, who is a freelance journalist and restaurant PR. He previously had a travel column in the Independent called The Hedonist, ...

An interview with Nickie O’Hara, author of the blog Typecast. Nickie spoke to Cision about her off-centre journey through life, her other blog Geekalicious and working with PRs. Why should people read your blog? People ...

Jelly is a new app from Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter. Created as a new kind of search engine, Jelly aims to crowdsource answers to ‘picture’ questions from your existing social following. For example, I ...

‘The week in PR’ is a look at all the top stories in public relations as reported by the UK media in the past seven days. Leading the news this week is Cision’s Top 10 ...

An interview with Neville Hobson, the most influential PR blogger in Vuelio’s Top 10 UK PR Blogs. Neville spoke to Vuelio about his blog Nevillehobson.com, not ranting in posts, good PR and his hopes for 2014. Why ...

An interview with Dan Slee, author of The Dan Slee Blog, which came fourth in Cision’s Top 10 PR Blog ranking. Dan spoke to us about the importance of local government services, his blogging highlight ...

Aspectus PR has won a competitive pitch to handle the PR for ITG, an independent research brokerage firm. The agency will be working to develop the European markets’ understanding of the range of services ITG provides. The ...

David Jones, global chief executive officer of Havas, the sixth largest global advertising group, will be leaving the company to launch his own tech start-up. He is replaced by Yannick Bolloré, who is the son ...

A PR Guy’s Musings will be featured in this week’s Media Updates. Author Stuart spoke to Cision about the industry going back to its roots, the rise of video and working with PRs. Why should people read ...

UK Independence Party (UKIP) has appointed Patrick O’Flynn of The Daily Express, as its new director of communications. Patrick will leave his job of eight years as the chief political commentator at the newspaper in ...

Edelman UK has appointed Niaz Samadizadeh to the newly created position of head of sponsored content and media partnerships. Niaz will be responsible for strengthening and expanding Edelman UK’s paid content offering. He will report ...

Bella Blissett is You Magazine’s beauty columnist as well as a freelance journalist and a consultant to big beauty brands. Bella spoke to us about You Magazine’s audience, working with two Twitter handles and her ...

‘The week in PR’ is a look at all the big stories in public relations as reported by the UK media in the past seven days. This week we’ve included all the news highlights over ...

Our first Speedy Spotlight of 2014 features WitWitWoo, which will also appear in next week’s Media Updates. Author Kate Sutton spoke to Cision about what makes her blog different, advice for newbies and cruises. A lot of ...

WPP’s Mindshare today announced plans to acquire Media Arts System and Services Company, Inc. (MASSCOM) in the Philippines. MASSCOM is a single-client media agency that was set up exclusively to handle the media business for ...

London Beauty Queen started in 2010 after author Hayley Carr had worked in the beauty industry for six years. Hayley realised her love for beauty when she wasn’t working in the industry anymore and now ...

Rob Flett, currently Edinburgh news editor for BBC Scotland is joining the Church of Scotland as communications manager.  Rob started freelancing at BBC Radio Orkney as a student in 1990, developing a taste for broadcasting ...

In continuation of our Top 10 Top 10s, here’s a look at the leading stories in public relations this year, according to @DayalPriyanka. Read up on the top 10 news that made, shook and shaped the ...

Interpublic Group’s Draftfcb has acquired Inferno, a London-based independent marketing, PR and social media firm, announced Carter Murray, Draftfcb Worldwide CEO.  The new entity, initially called Inferno Draftfcb, will have joint capabilities spanning on and offline advertising, CRM, ...