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A selection of recent coverage...
- The launch of the CIPR's best practice guide for using statistics in communications featured in Communicate Magazine online, PRWeek.com, Gorkana and Market Research Industry online (17 Feb)
- Chair of CIPR Local Public Services Group Ashley Wilcox wrote an opinion piece for PRWeek (16 Feb) about the implication of the Code of Recommended Practice on Local Authority Publicity.
Public sector communicators are used to challenges and finding creative and innovative ways to communicate. But whatever we do there is still a massive gap and the problem is that residents who need our services most are going to miss out. Council publications are a tried and tested direct communication tool that reaches hard to reach groups. Our communities are going to lose out.
- Ross Williamson being named Chair of CIPR Northern Ireland featured in Belfast Telegraph (15 Feb)
- CIPR CEO Jane Wilson highlighted the communications challenge presented by 'The Big Society' on The Drum (1 Feb) and PRWeek.com (7 Feb). Writing as a guest contributor on the CIPR President's Blog and speaking on CIPR TV, Jane Wilson said that government attempts to communicate the concept had so far met with little success.
The big society is currently a philosophy rather than an action plan, but the transfer of power it would bring if it becomes political reality creates several communications challenges and the public relations profession will be fundamental to its success or failure.
- Following the recent news stories on internships in the PR profession, PRWeek Editor, Danny Rogers, included a reference to our work placement charter in his editorial. (PRWeek, 4 Feb)
- The announcement of Liberty Director Shami Chakrabarti and Adrian Wheeler FCIPR receiving honorary medals from Immediate Past President Jay O'Connor for outstanding contribution to PR featured in PRWeek and online magazines including PRWeek Online, Brand Republic and Communicate (4 Feb)
- Jane Wilson comments on the Big Society in Guardian Society Online (2 Feb):
Among the public and among some opinion formers, there is a degree of cynicism that the idea is being put forward to soften the image of a government engaged in a fierce economic struggle to reduce public sector debt. Regardless of this, if the idea is meaningful, it has at its core the proposition that decisions should be taken closer to the people who will be affected by them. The big society is a message that, if it is to work, must resonate outside Whitehall and in the communities that will be at the cutting edge. The results of the government's efforts at communicating it so far do not seem to reflect this.
- The appointment of Steve Falla as chair of CIPR Channel Islands featured in The Guernsey Press & Star and Isle News (3 Feb)
- The launch of the CIPR's mentoring scheme featured in PRWeek (17Jan)
- CIPR President Paul Mylrea and Chair of CIPR's Local Public Services Group Ashley Wilcox both spoke to CorpComms (1 Jan) about the difficulties but also the potential for public sector communicators to move to the private sector.
Paul Mylrea commented:
The time when there was a difference in the professionalism between the public and private sectors has long gone. In some cases, there's a greater difference between being at a PR agency and an in-house communications function. And even within the public sector, there are vastly different organisations and vastly different approaches to communications. Some are very product or services-driven and very consumer-orientated. Others are more directed at stakeholders. You've got to adopt the right behavior, depending on where you are.
