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Global Alliance Advocates for Responsible Communication at United Nations, Supporting its Inclusion as the New 18th Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)

Stuart Mitchell

Global Alliance Advocates for Responsible Communication at United Nations, Supporting its Inclusion as the New 18th Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) The Global Alliance for Public Relations and Communication Management reiterates the urgent need for a dedicated SDG focused on responsible communication. Responsible communication means: Open dialogue about global challenges, such as climate change, poverty reduction and democracy. Consider dialogue as the most powerful weapon. Freedom of opinion and press. Ethical approach to organizational and institutional communications, based on facts. Fight against fake news, misinformation and any kind of propaganda. Educate…

The Pitch 2025: Marketing students respond to creative challenge from Dogs Trust

Stuart Mitchell

CIM’s 2024/25 global student marketing competition, The Pitch, has launched to students around the world and is accepting entries until Monday 2 December 2024. The competition is open to university students based anywhere around the world, at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, where students are studying for a marketing degree, or a business degree containing a marketing module.   Now in its fourteenth year, the competition challenges aspiring marketers from across the globe to react to a real-life brief from a top organisation. Finalists will then go head-to-head in the hope…

Digital Poverty Alliance launches Tech4Youth in Cumbria to address the looming digital divide among young people

Stuart Mitchell

The Digital Poverty Alliance (DPA) has launched its expansion of their Tech4Youth programme to the Solway Coast in Cumbria, coinciding with End Digital Poverty Day. This expansion of the scheme will support 275 young people, aged 11-to-19, on the Solway coast and surrounding communities, Silloth, Wigton, Maryport and Aspatria, by providing laptops, free internet access, and digital literacy workshops, directly addressing the digital access challenges faced in this region. 86 per cent of parents of digitally excluded children cite cost as the primary barrier preventing their children from accessing laptops,…

Average salary falls as challenges to PR industry outlined in CIPR’s 2024 State of the Profession report

Stuart Mitchell

The average salary across the public relations profession has fallen by over £3,000 in two years, highlighting the impact of a challenging economic backdrop on the PR industry according to new data from the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR).  The Institute’s latest State of the Profession report – the first since 2022 – provides industry-leading insights into the public relations profession following a survey of over 2,000 PR professionals on a range of topics including working hours, industry challenges, activities most commonly undertaken, and a series of new questions…

Cascale Issues Data-Driven Decarbonisation Roadmap, Rallies Industry on New Era of Business Leadership in Climate, Social Justice

Stuart Mitchell

Global nonprofit alliance Cascale, formerly the Sustainable Apparel Coalition, centered their recent Annual Meeting in Munich on a call to action: Attendees must become bold advocates for change within their organizations and throughout the industry. This was the first Annual Meeting since the organization rebranded in February 2024, and it marks a major milestone in the organization’s evolution. Themed “A New Era of Unified Impact,” the event united over 600 attendees from around the world, who heard from more than 80 global industry experts. The tone was set during the…