Jane Wilson

In February I wrote about the real opportunity that the 'dark arts' scandal around Wikipedia offered - to build mutual understanding between the public relations community and Wikipedian community worldwide. Since then, the question of the most appropriate way to engage with audiences through Wikipedia has become a global conversation....

The Sunday Times party funding investigation is being wrongly conflated into a lobbying scandal by leader writers and others who see this as a good opportunity to keep up the pressure on the public affairs profession, which they either misunderstand or don't like.

It does not seem to matter that...

David Cameron said that he thought the next big political scandal after MPs' expenses would involve lobbying. Sadly, but one might say predictably, the next big political scandal has involved a party fundraiser attempting to encourage a company to give money in return for access to policymakers. The Sunday Times...

It is a neat irony that the furore surrounding public relations agencies who have been editing Wikipedia presents our profession with a classic public relations opportunity.

Wikipedia is the world's fifth most-read website. It is an online encyclopaedia with over 20 million articles and often the first port of call...

Sometimes the values that we pursue in public relations can put wider social and economic issues into context. Trust is one of those values.

Britain's economy shrank in the last quarter of 2011 by slightly more than expected as manufacturing slowed down an already very slow economic recovery. The CBI...

The long awaited consultation document on the promised statutory register of lobbyists has been published. This week, the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) is contacting individual members of our Public Affairs Group to seek their views on the questions it raises.

My first reaction is that government...