Edelman job cuts, SEC Newgate investment, Trading Tracker, Shein – PRWeek Noise in Brief podcast

Big themes and stories in comms from the past week or so are put under the microscope in the latest edition of Noise in Brief, PRWeek UK’s bite-sized podcast.Noise in Brief – a shorter offshoot of PRWeek’s Beyond the Noise podcast – is released fortnightly and features PRWeek journalists discussing major issues from the previous seven days or so.Download the podcast via Apple, Spotify, or listen on your favourite platform.This week, we talk about SEC Newgate and how the agency is set to receive a $100m investment from Investcorp. The trio analyse some of the main findings from PRWeek’s Top 150 Monthly Trading Tracker, including the industry’s views on current trading conditions and redundancies. The team also talk through the sad news that Edelman is to cut 240 jobs, and what it tells us about the industry in this challenging time.The comms crisis at fast fashion brand Shein is put also under the microscope, and we have more details on the launch of a hybrid recruitment company called PR Mums, which is being supported by 35 PR agencies.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.