Clarion Appoints Top Digital PR Experts

Chris Cook (Head of Digital PR)
A digital and mobile technology specialist, Chris has over 14 years’ experience of building lifestyle brands, having worked for respected London PR agencies and also in private consultancy. Clients have included Nokia, MySpace, Barclays Premier League, Coca-Cola GB, AirMiles, Virgin Holidays and PC World.  

Christian Payne (Clarion Advisory Board Member)
An experienced journalist, Christian Payne maintains and hosts blogs and podcasts with readers and listeners in over sixty countries. With a hand in social media, citizen journalism, professional photography and audio and video podcasting, his recent projects include documenting the plight of Iraqi refugees for the United Nations; expanding the Open University's new media remit; and working with Reuters interviewing prominent figures including Gordon Brown and David Cameron. He has advised the Government on the use of Twitter.

James Whatley  (Clarion Advisory Board Member)
James Whatley is SpinVox’s Head of Social Media & Conversation, an avid blogger in his own right via Whatleydude.com and co-founder of the online video show & website, The Really Mobile Project. Passionate for all things social, James is a frequent speaker at conferences and events.

He was one of the lead contributors to The Mobile Industry Review show and site, which at its peak, reached 250,000 viewers within the first year of launch. He is also creator of the Mobile Geeks of London, a networking group that started in the UK and has since gone global, and a key advisor to Dabr, a third party mobile web interface to Twitter.

Clarion Appoints Youth, TV & Film Experts

Charles Martin  (Clarion Advisory Board Member)
Charles commenced directing across a variety of TV entertainment & music shows. His distinctive visual style started to develop when he was asked to do the title sequence & branding for the first series of Big Brother (the original eye motif was his creation); ITV then sponsored him to direct two episodes of “The Giblet Boys”. The following year he went back to helm three further episodes, one of which garnered the Best Children’s Drama BAFTA.

More recently Charles has been directing 2 series of the groundbreaking youth drama Skins, going on to win RTS, Broadcast & BAFTA awards. Charles is currently filming “Single, Married, Other” for ITV and developing a screenplay for his first feature film.

Anna Richardson (Clarion Advisory Board Member)
Anna is a regular on our screens, hosting numerous series for the BBC and ITV, including Love Bites Back, Dream Ticket, Des Res, Maternity Hospital and ITV's flagship film series Big Screen. More recently, Anna has turned her attention to writing and producing successful television formats for the BBC, ITV and Channel 4, including No Waste Like Home; Turn Back Your Body Clock; and Channel 4's hit series You are What You Eat with Dr Gillian McKeith. 

Philip Rose
Phillip has worked in the film industry for over 15 years, working both client and agency side. He has represented all of the leading distributors and studios including Sony, 20th Century Fox, Intermedia and Premier PR.

Sam Norman
Sam is a writer, journalist and broadcaster with extensive writing experience covering most national magazines and newspapers.  Sam has presented for all the major broadcasters specialising in arts and entertainment shows such as ITV's Richard and Judy Show and GMTV's Good Morning with Anne and Nick as well as being show biz correspondent for London Tonight.

Twitter or Twaddle

We recently held the second in our series of free private evening seminars which examined the trends in digital PR and social media.  Guest speakers were: Chris Cook, Clarion's Head of Digital PR; Christian Payne, social media expert and Clarion Advisory Board member; Steve Anglesey, Website Editor from The Daily Mirror; and Paul Taylor, Managing Director Radian6.

The event was well attended and feedback from delegates extremely positive - "I did find the seminar extremely interesting and Christian was positively inspirational" and "Great insights & speakers".

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