NEWS

TUESDAY 23 DEC 2025 10:00 AM

HOW BRUNSWICK IS KEEPING PACE WITH A CHANGING COMMUNICATIONS LANDSCAPE

Ahead of the Corporate & Financial Awards, Rebecca Pardon speaks with Jarrad Comley, partner and executive creative director at Brunswick. With the firm shortlisted across several categories, Comley reflects on the craft, collaboration and ambition behind the work, and how a changing industry is shaping Brunswick’s goals. Interviews for the Corporate and Financial Awards produced by Kinura.

BY REBECCA PARDON
MONDAY 22 DEC 2025 10:00 AM

HOW AI IS RESHAPING INVESTOR RELATIONS

Ahead of the Corporate and Financial Awards, Rebecca Pardon speaks with Jon Rowden, director at Reportl. With multiple shortlistings across digital and print categories, Rowden reflects on how AI is reshaping investor access to information, why Reportal’s digital-first approach is gaining traction and how recent work with Airtel Africa is setting a fresh benchmark in online reporting. Interviews for the Corporate and Financial Awards produced by Kinura.

BY REBECCA PARDON

NEWS FILTERS

TUESDAY 6 AUG 2019 10:35 AM

CSR, PARTNERSHIPS AND SPONSORSHIPS IN THE NEWS
This month has seen a number of new initiatives in sustainability, CSR and corporate partnerships and sponsorships. In this review, we examine some of the news in this area from the past month.
BY ALEXIS NOONAN
THURSDAY 1 AUG 2019 9:25 AM

CAN PR HELP STOP TERRORISM?
The UK government wants to educate PR professionals on counter-terrorism. The Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) and the government’s Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI) have partnered in producing a guide discussing the influence and value of communications “before, during, and after major incidents.”.
BY ALEXIS NOONAN
WEDNESDAY 24 JUL 2019 8:54 AM

IT’S TIME FOR PR TO STRENGTHEN ITS PR
A recently distributed report concerning PR’s credit among executives has unexpected results as it indicates that 20% of executives do not know what PR stands for, and 40% fail to believe that it contributes benefits to their business. Releasd, a PR services firm, publicly released its study on 19 June after measuring a range of 300 executives with professions in an array of enterprises and divisions with over 1,000 employees.
BY ALEXIS NOONAN
MONDAY 22 JUL 2019 2:50 PM

PROMOTING ETHICAL AI IN PUBLIC RELATIONS
Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most innovative novelties society has experienced since the Industrial Revolution, but the cruciality of being apprehensive towards this new technology is deservingly reiterated by the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR). A recently released skills guide from the CIPR refers to AI as “the ability to imitate human behaviour...and needs to be understood in many different ways.” In layman’s terms, AI software allows complex, data-packed duties to be executed more efficiently via repetition and data.
BY ALEXIS NOONAN
THURSDAY 11 JUL 2019 1:52 PM

FIRST FRAMEWORK FOR MEASURING SUSTAINABILITY COMMS RELEASED
On 27 June, strategic communications consultancy Portland Communications released a study emphasising the value of effective communication of a company’s CSR and sustainability efforts. The Total Value Index has become “the first comprehensive framework to measure the total value generated by business[es] in Britain,” according to Portland Communications. The research came to a bitter conclusion that the majority of the nine assessed sectors displayed an immense disparity between what a company says about its own green credentials and public perception.
BY ALEXIS NOONAN