The PR Hub Podcast

The kids are alright! Adam and Jon are made to feel like crusty old timers in this episode of the pod, and interview three of the incredible shining lights of the UK communications industry who have recently been unveiled as forming part of PR Week’s 30 Under 30 and Newcomers for this year. Determined to shake up the industry and drive change from the bottom up, the trio – Liv Shalofsky (KPMG UK), Josh Burrell (Transport for London), and Jainie Mills (BP) – discuss their entries into the sector, their aspirations for the future, the state of the industry as they see it, and a whole lot more.

As ever, you can follow us on Twitter @PRHub, Adam is @AdamTuckwell, and Jon is @JonWilcox_. Josh and Liv can be found @JB_new and @OliviaShalofsky, while all three of them can also be found on LinkedIn.

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Alex Myers, founder of Manifest Group, speaks with Adam and Jon in this episode of The PR Hub Podcast. Outspoken, open, transparent, and looking to deliver change to brands (and the wider communications industry, the man who arguably has the nicest staircase in all of PR-dom talks about setting up his agency, taking it international while retaining its small agency feel, and why the pitching process if fundamentally broken… and, more importantly, how he’d fix it.

You can follow Alex Myers on Twitter @AlexMyers, and you can let us know your thoughts about the episode by tweeting at us @PRHub, or separately @AdamTuckwell and @JonWilcox_.

Adam and Jon meet Ronke Lawal, founder of lifestyle agency Ariatu PR, mentor, and entrepreneur, about her journey from wannabe investment banker and economist grad to comms expert and small business owner. A mentor for The Cherie Blair Foundation, The “Success Looks Like You” Initiative and The BME Pros initiative, as well as a mentor to entrepreneurs and creatives outside of structured initiatives, Ronke also discusses her feelings and experiences of racial diversity in PR and marcoms, and how the industry can - and must - do better. 

Also, following our recent chat with Carrie Rose in the previous episode, we reveal which reality show you and our Twitters followers would like to take part in...

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You can follow Ronke Lawal on Twitter @RonkeLawal and The PR Hub Podcast @PRHub. Adam can be found @AdamTuckwell, while Jon is @JonWilcox_.

The PR Hub Podcast is BACK! It's the first episode of season two, and it's like we've never had that rather extended break for the last nine months... 

Kicking off the new season, Adam and Jon chat crisis communications with the former Head of Corporate Comms at Greater Manchester Police, Amanda Coleman. Having recently launched a new book on the subject in the midst of a global pandemic, Amanda shares her thoughts on how comms pros should prepare and action crisis communication strategies.

Follow Amanda on Twitter @AmandaComms; her new book is Crisis Communication Strategies: How to Prepare in Advance, Respond Effectively and Recover in Full, and is available on Amazon.

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This time on The PR Hub Podcast, Adam and Jon discuss the recent social media mishap from Arsenal and Adidas, the decision by Edelman to pull out of a contract with the company behind the Trump camps in the United States following pressure from staff, and the very Brexit-like result of the pod’s debut poll on whether public relations is a profession… or an industry.

The duo speak with Darren Caveney, founder of PR resource site Comms2Point0 and co-founder of ‘the public relations equivalent of Woodstock’, the CommsUnplugged Festival. Finally, they highlight a couple of events happening next month. Oh, and we discover Adam’s London-based football club of choice (hint: it’s not Arsenal. Or Chelsea. Or any team in the Premiership).

Show notes

Story links:

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/botched-adidas-twitter-campaign-spits-172047175.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/30/business/edelman-geo-border-detention.html 

Interview:

Follow Darren Caveney on Twitter @DarrenCaveney

Events:

Tickets to CommsUnplugged can be found at www.commsunplugged.co.uk

Tickets to the PRCA’s National Conference can be found at https://www.prca.org.uk/event/3270/prca-national-conference-2019%3A-next-generation-pr

Follow the daily musings of Adam and Jon on Twitter at @AdamTuckwell and @JonWilcox_. Don’t forget to follow the pod on Twitter either at @PRHub, where you join the conversation, take part in polls, and send links to stories you’d like us to discuss.

Oh, and you can follow Jon’s pug on Instagram at barnabytpug. He’s a good boy.

Oh no, we didn't get an episode of the pod out in June!

Never fear, because episode four of The PR Hub Podcast is finally here. This time, Adam and Jon discuss a couple of topics including the merits of PR awards - are they just a money spinner of events companies? They also speak with Gareth Williams, COO of videogames and technology agency, Little Big PR, about his career path and experiences of going from games journalist to setting up his own agency. Finally, they point out a couple of key PR events happening on both sides of the Atlantic over the coming weeks. If you have a story you'd like us to discuss, tweet @PRHub. Gareth Williams can be found @Shakacarnage, while Adam and Jon can be found at @AdamTuckwell and @JonWilcox_ respectively. 

Music is 'Werq' by Kevin Macleod at Incompetech, and is used under a Creative Commons licence. 

This month on The PR Hub Podcast, Adam and Jon discuss the PRCA Census, the recent CIPR East Anglia Best Practice Conference in Norwich, and why agencies shouldn't necessarily have on-site bars. We also have a phone interview with Francis Ingham, Director General of the PRCA, who discusses - among other things - his career to date, whether PR pros take reputation management seriously enough, and the death of AVEs (yay!) If you spot a story you'd like us to discuss, tweet us @PRHub. Francis Ingham can be found at @Ingers1975, while Adam and Jon can be found separately @AdamTuckwell and @JonWilcox_.

Music is 'Werq' by Kevin Macleod at Incompetech, and is used under a Creative Commons licence.

In this episode of The PR Hub Podcast, Adam and Jon discuss the CIPR's recently released State of the Profession 2018/19 report, which includes salary levels and the mental health of professionals in the industry. We also meet BBC broadcaster-turned-communications practitioner Mike Sergeant,  who gives his take on the age-old perception that public relations is the dark side to journalism's light. He also talks about his new book, which is due out later this month.

If you spot a story you'd like us to discuss, tweet us @PRHub. Mike Sergeant can be found @TheMikeSergeant, while Adam and Jon can be found separately @AdamTuckwell and @JonWilcox_. 

Music is by Kevin Macleod at Incompetech, and is used under a Creative Commons licence.