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Sarah Pinch is managing director of Pinch Point Communications, President of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) and a non-executive director for the Health and Safety Executive. Here DTW invites her to talk about her priorities  as president of the CIPR for 2015. Every year the CIPR elects a new President, and after three years as the chair of the CIPR in the South West and many more as an active member, I am this year’s President. I came to office on February 1, as I was still on maternity leave in January. This was a first for the institute; and

Following Meerkat’s launch last week, Twitter sped up the release of it’s own integrated live streaming app Periscope. Despite still being in beta, the social giant quietly acquired Periscope in early March for around $100million. With Meerkat beating it to release, Twitter acted quickly to shore up its new acquisition and blocked Meerkat’s access to some of Twitter’s core functions. Periscope is available now on Apple’s iTunes store (the Android version is currently TBC). Like Meerkat its users can broadcast a live video stream direct to their followers, allowing businesses and individuals to communicate messages to their Twitter followers simply by

This is the first in an occasional series of guest blog posts from DTW. In today’s post Sarah Hall, managing director of Sarah Hall Consulting Ltd and board member for the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR), outlines why gender inequality still exists in PR – and what the leading industry body is doing about it. What’s the problem? The CIPR’s annual State of the Profession Survey has identified that there is a clear £8,483 pay gap in favour of men, that cannot be explained by any other factor such as length of service, seniority, parenthood, or a higher prevalence of

Through my work in the FE sector over the last 20 years, there is no doubt in my mind that further education has, and continues to, transform the lives of many young people and adults who otherwise would not have had the opportunity to improve their lives and contribute to society. College staff, passionate about their work, inspire students who often suffer low esteem from poor achievement at school and/or difficult home circumstances and provide them with the skills, knowledge and support to gain good jobs and progress to higher education. Often seen in the past as the ‘Cinderella’ in