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An evaluation of the PR sector’s input to the UK economy is underway.

New research has shed light on a significant retention risk, despite the challenging economy and weak jobs data.

New research has called into question how much teams are actually using AI in their day-to-day work.

With six months to go before the Commonwealth Games take place in Glasgow, the organisers have boosted their comms team.

Businesses are being urged to adopt structured, values-based decision-making and engagement processes.

Concerns over the use of fake experts to promote companies in the media has prompted PR trade bodies to urge journalists to check the credentials of comms professionals.

In-house comms chiefs came together at the PRWeek Year Ahead event to discuss how AI is changing the way we should view legacy media.

Motor racing team Aston Martin Aramco F1 has named its new communications director, following chief comms officer Luke Skipper’s departure.

A senior editor has left journalism to move into an in-house comms role.

The chief executive of Music Support has turned to a former colleague to fill a senior comms role.

A communications professional taking part in the BBC's The Traitors has won the competition in a dramatic final episode broadcast on Friday (23rd January).

A war of words has erupted between Welsh politicians, who have clashed over the level of spending on comms, media, PR and marketing.

Kendal Sefton and Lucy Warren replace Elizabeth Tomlin, who remains with the organisation on the senior advisory committee.

The British car company has promoted from within to appoint a new sustainability and community communications manager.

Vicky Steadman and Zoe Kindler join the organisation to ‘strengthen’ its comms team.

With the business world in a state of constant disruption, organisations must ‘rethink how they align people, strategy and action’, says new report.

The hotel giant has taken on a former Direct Line Group senior manager to handle its global external comms.

The former director of comms and engagement at FirstGroup's bus division joins the ranks at Engie UK.

Many in-house teams will not risk hiring comms professionals from agencies.

Members are being asked for their views on the new definition, which follows a debate between PRCA chief Sarah Waddington and adland grandee Sir Martin Sorrell.

The petcare brand has appointed a new global external comms lead for purpose and sustainability.

The government’s communications operation has come under fire from the very minister who oversees its work.

The shipping trade association has recruited a former SEC Newgate accounts manager as its new public affairs manager.

Madeleine Porter will join the insurance company in a newly created role.

Ex-director of communications at the UK Chamber of Shipping joins the global trade association for shipowners and operators.

The holiday firm, which has six resorts in the UK and Ireland, has recruited a new manager for its comms team.

Reform has boosted its comms team with several new appointments.

Time is running out to enter this year’s In.Comms Corporate Affairs Awards, in partnership with PRWeek UK.

The Independent Healthcare Providers Network (IHPN) has created a new senior comms role.

A new report from Cision has put a spotlight on the different ways agency and in-house PRs perceive their teams’ strengths and weaknesses.

The Magnum Ice Cream Company has recruited Marks & Spencer’s director of corporate affairs, Victoria McKenzie-Gould, to lead its global corporate affairs function following its separation from Unilever.

The PRCA has left the platform and is urging the government to cease using it for official communications.

Guto Harri, who has held several high-profile in-house roles, has joined a global strategic comms and public affairs agency.

Tributes have been paid to Bieneosa Ebite, head of communications and government affairs, inclusion and diversity at GSK, who has died.

The UK arm of the brewing giant has appointed a corporate affairs director who previously held a senior sustainability role at the company.

A British PR professional has landed one of the biggest comms jobs in the music industry.

An experienced comms professional has landed the top job at the Magistrates’ Association.

The professional membership organisation, which represents 12k therapists, has hired a public affairs professional to a newly created senior role.

A senior comms professional has been picked for the top job at a youth charity.

Senior in-house comms figures have been recognised in the King’s New Year Honours list.

The pharma giant has made several senior additions to its in-house communications team in recent months.

Sarah Lee is tasked with leading Scotland’s comms profession through a period of industry transformation.

New guidance seeks to fill the gap left by traditional approaches to crisis communications.

Sorrelle Harper joins a raft of high-profile new hires at the smart meter provider.

The in-house comms community has shrugged off the suggestion that ‘PR is dead’, made by adland grandee Sir Martin Sorrell on Radio 4.

Email is seen as the most effective tool but research finds communicators want to invest more time or resources in intranets next year.

NatWest has hired a media relations lead for commercial and institutional banking.

A Labour grandee who heads up communications at the UK’s largest terrorism reinsurer has been nominated as a life peer.

‘Compliance campaigns’ were a factor in billions that were lost to fraud in Covid-19 support schemes having to be written off.

The Association of British Dispensing Opticians (ABDO) has created a new senior comms role.

The prime minister’s former director of communications has hit out at the extent to which government sources are briefing the media.

A comms strategy is being developed to promote the work of the fledgling regulator which was established in September.

Data protection is about people and should not be treated as a tick-box exercise, according to the top comms person at the Information Commissioner’s Office.

Elon Musk’s controversial social media platform is being abandoned by a growing number of organisations.

PRCA census paints a picture of an ambitious sector embracing strategy planning and measurement, while simultaneously struggling to make progress on DEI.

The ECB has taken on a new comms director to help grow cricket’s reach and relevance.

The Electoral Commission has made a senior hire to help it develop its digital comms.

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.

A stellar lineup of judges will be making the big decisions for this year's awards.

The very effectiveness of the Government’s ‘stay at home’ messaging created problems of its own, according to a major report into the UK’s pandemic response.

The financial services giant is boosting internal communications at its asset management arm.

James Crampton takes his 25 years’ experience from Heineken UK to Vietnam.

Jordan McKibben will represent the public affairs team within steering committees and work to develop patient comms and advocacy at Gilead Sciences.

The organisation, which has six sites across the UK, has created a new senior role to oversee comms and digital engagement.

The rapid adoption of AI is creating an ‘expectation gap’ between internal comms teams, but leading adopters view this as a catalyst for stronger cross-department collaboration.

A former senior official at the government’s Office for Life Sciences has left the public sector to join the public affairs team at pharma giant GSK.

Frustration is mounting among comms professionals as job descriptions become impossibly broad, salaries shrink and expectations of a ‘unicorn’ employee skyrocket.

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.

One in two female professionals have encountered harassment or inappropriate behaviour at work, while two out of five say nothing happened after reporting it, new research shows.

Traditional search is being pushed out in favour of AI search, but some impressive looking, SEO-optimised websites are slipping past the algorithms, new study finds.

The fashion brand has recruited its first communications manager.

The East London healthcare charity has created a new senior comms role.

Chatbots will dominate internal comms, according to a new report shared with In.Comms.

Jonathan Lima-Matthews will help shape policy and advocacy strategies across the EMEA region.

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.

Rebecca Marmot, chief sustainability and corporate affairs officer at Unilever, hands the baton to a former Big Four comms leader.

After the resignation of two leading figures at the BBC, we hear from those familiar with the corporation’s inner workings.

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.

Senior internal communications professionals in banking and insurance are among those to have been awarded fellowships.

The National Farmers’ Union is set to lose its current comms chief next year.

Radical new proposals have been announced seeking to redefine the relationship between police and the media.

Sunseeker, the Poole-based luxury yacht brand, has split responsibility for marketing and sales.

An industry insider’s social media post about comms job descriptions has prompted a lively debate about the state of recruitment in the sector.

Creativity and showcasing value are top of mind for this year’s co-chair duo.

The workplace pension provider has recruited a former policy specialist at Pensions UK to the newly created role.

Featuring the sector’s most inspiring black leaders, strategists and innovators, this list celebrates the individuals setting standards, opening doors and driving the UK communications industry forward.

Charlotte Butterick goes back in-house, as public affairs manager for England at energy operator, after leaving consultancy role.

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

Silicon valley adviser Dex Hunter-Torricke’s new role is designed to support good decision making at the Treasury.

The CIPR has revealed who will become its president in 2027, after three industry leaders battled it out.

Donal McCabe, one of the country’s most experienced PR professionals, has reunited with a former colleague who now runs The Jockey Club.

Comms and PR experts came together to discuss how to achieve widespread media coverage in a rapidly evolving, fragmented and AI-driven landscape.

Professionals are not being given the resources they need to deliver effectively, suggests new research.

The Chartered Institute of Housing has hired a new head of policy and external affairs.

Domestic abuse charity Refuge has finally found a permanent director of fundraising, communications and policy more than a year after the post became vacant.

Information Commissioner’s Office scoops win for turning an organisation’s error into a learning opportunity for others.

The ‘immense contribution’ of one of the UK’s leading internal comms specialists has been recognised by the CIPR.

The annual awards celebrate outstanding achievements across the industry.

A communications professional with an unconventional career path has joined the team at Which?.

The confidence of companies in their financial future reaches positive territory for the first time in more than a year, despite a “challenging” climate.

Listening to staff and not acting on the feedback is more damaging than not listening at all.