Burson-Marsteller

WPP has merged Cohn & Wolfe and Burson-Marsteller to form Burson Cohn & Wolfe, creating one of the world’s largest full-service comms agencies. Cohn & Wolfe [...]

Burson-Marsteller UK has hired former Downing Street adviser Meg Powell-Chandler as a director in its public affairs team. Powell-Chandler ran as the Conservative candidate in [...]

Burson-Marsteller has named renowned political lobbyist Stephen Day as CEO of its UK operations.  Day joined Burson-Marsteller in April 2014 as a managing director and became [...]

London fintech startup Curve has made its first PR and comms hire with the appointment of Burson-Marsteller’s Callum McCaig, as the business prepares to scale out of [...]

FleishmanHillard Fishburn  has promoted Steph Bailey to MD and hired another senior director and partner, Michael Hartt. Bailey is now the managing director of the [...]

Your bite-sized update on the best PR opinion, interviews, events and insights featured on Gorkana News this week. Alastair Campbell: ‘Comms will not fundamentally [...]

And we’re off! Theresa May has finally invoked Article 50, signalling the beginning of the end of Britain’s European Union membership. The implications for business are [...]

Robyn De Villiers, CEO and chairman of Burson-Marsteller, Africa, is to give this year’s Maggie Nally Memorial Lecture keynote address, the Chartered Institute of Public [...]

Encouraging social mobility and diversity are challenges for many sectors and PR  is no exception. Comms pros and diversity experts from Ketchum, Forster, Burson-Marsteller, [...]

Kevin Bell, who joined Burson-Marsteller’s London office in 2014 as global public affairs practice chair, has been appointed as the agency’s worldwide president. [...]

Your bitesize update on the latest People News and Moves featured on Gorkana News: Tulchan Communications has hired David Cameron’s former press secretary, Graeme [...]

Kelly Teasdale has joined Burson-Marsteller’s healthcare team as senior director, following two years as global brand comms director at pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca. At [...]

Henry Engleka has joined comms and PR firm Burson-Marsteller as chair of its US healthcare practice, which is based in Washington DC. Engleka, who joins with more than 20 [...]

Communications consultancy Hawthorn has appointed Daniel Rolle and Jen Stebbing as associate directors. They will advise clients across the technology and professional [...]

Party conference season is in full-swing and this week’s Labour Party Conference has attracted PRs from both agencies and in-house teams. Gorkana asks attendees from [...]

Burson-Marsteller has named Mike Fernandez chair of its global corporate and financial practice. Based in New York, Fernandez will spearhead client development, strategy and [...]

The PRCA has announced the shortlist for the inaugural Burson-Marsteller-backed Reginald Watts Prize for PR Insight, which saw PR professionals aged 25 or under enter essays [...]

As The New European publisher Archant reveals that it will continue to publish issues of the pop-up title after its initial cut-off date, Gorkana explores the opportunities [...]