Sarah has a really impressive and interesting back story so it was great to see her make such a long journey and take the time to meet the North East group. Continue reading
This dry January thing is dragging on a bit isn’t it?
After living like Oliver Reed since the back of December, two full days of total sobriety is breeding a cumulative hangover so devastating that it’s threatening my sanity. That aside there’s plenty to look forward in 2015 (like the last series of Mad Men).
A brief look back at my blog stats from 2014 shows that the most popular posts align unerringly with some of the biggest themes for me in the last 12 months.
These were six the most popular posts and hopefully they say something more about the current PR economy and landscape. Continue reading
In a week that most of the internet seemed to talking about THAT Tony Blair Christmas card, my mind went back to a time when the young pretender was the hottest ticket in town.
My own Blair experience was bookmarked first as a journalist in London in the early days of his second term as PM, and then as a PR back in Gateshead as his era limped to a close.
I really hope you’ve enjoyed all the blogs so far and I want to say a massive thank you to everyone who has contributed to a great conversation about our industry in the North East.
Because I would never ask people to do anything I wouldn’t do myself, I’ve had a go at answering some of the questions that I’ve been pestering everyone else with.
I’ve strapped myself down, adopted an aggressive tone, turned on the interrogation lamp (normal weekend stuff really) and tried to add my ten pence worth to the debate.
Rachel McBryde is the Business Development Director at Gardiner Richardson.
It’s great to get the views of someone so senior at one of the region’s top PR agencies and add more to this conversation about communications in the North East. There are some fantastic tips here for people looking to break into the industry as well as some great commentary on how PR is changing.
Stuart Mackintosh spent nine years in journalism, including a spell as Chief Reporter at The Northern Echo, before moving into communications in 2006.
He has had two spells in North-East local government comms – either side of two years as a consultant – and is a former winner of the CIPR North-East Outstanding Young Communicator award.
Stuart is currently Communications Manager at pensions administrator RPMI, in Darlington
I’ve admired his work (and excellent blogging) for a long time and now he has his say on the North East comms scene….
When I started asking people to take part in this conversation about PR in the North East, Jill Farmer was someone I really wanted to take part.
Having studied and worked alongside Jill I knew that she’d have a great perspective on what’s what.
She’s analytical and focused on detail in a way that Shames me so I knew she’d offer some good insight on the business.
Caroline Latta has been something of a doyen of health sector communications in the North East for a while now.
She’s currently working as Senior communications and engagement manager at the NHS North of England Commissioning Support and she’s been kind enough to share her thoughts with this blog.
Some say PR and media stalwart, others say Mr Northumberland.
Either way when Gordon Arnott talks, people listen.
A former journalist and senior communicator at One North East Gordon is also a multiple CIPR North East Pride award winner. He’s taken some time out to offer some words of wisdom on the state of the sector in the North East and it makes some fascinating reading…
Today we welcome Southerner in exile and long suffering QPR fan Christian Cerisola to the North East comms conversation.
This exotically named, urbane chap is a director of GluePR. He answered these questions in true ‘Arry Redknap style through an open car window while driving from his workplace at speed.
But unlike Harry he provides some absolute, solid gold pearls of wisdom on PR and communications, including one of my favourite quotes ever – it’s the tweeting bollocks one (see below) as if you had to ask…….
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