With 100 attendees over two days, the UK AI Safety Summit is over. What have we learned? Here’s a summary from the things I have read/seen/heard this week. The positives A diplomatic coup: AI knows no borders, so mitigating the … Read More
Media relations, or building relationships with journalists, is often critical to most public relations programmes. But what issues do journalists face, and how does this impact the PR strategies companies pursue? Cision, the global media monitoring and measurement business, surveyed … Read More
Natasha Thomas, vice president of public affairs and stakeholder relations at FTSE 100 listed technology firm Sage discusses data, technology and the evolution of public affairs with CIPR Public Affairs Group vice chair James Boyd-Wallis. Natasha Thomas’s interest in politics … Read More
Lobbying has a bad reputation. A string of both historic and more recent scandals, often involving serving or former MPs, haven’t helped. But the situation with the UK arm of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) highlights the benefit lobbying can bring … Read More
By James Boyd-Wallis Both historic and more recent scandals have given lobbying a negative reputation. But in 2014, the government introduced the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act to tackle such opaque behaviour. The act created the … Read More