''PRWeek'' is a
trade magazine
A trade magazine, also called a trade journal or trade paper (colloquially or disparagingly a trade rag), is a magazine or newspaper whose target audience is people who work in a particular trade or industry. The collective term for t ...
for the
public relations
Public relations (PR) is the practice of managing and disseminating information from an individual or an organization (such as a business, government agency, or a nonprofit organization) to the public in order to influence their perception. ...
industry. The original UK edition was the brainchild of the late Geoffrey Lace who at the time worked for Haymarket. After failing to interest Haymarket in his idea he left to launch it on his own circa 1981. Peter Gummer (now Lord Chadlington) had founded Shandwick a few years earlier in 1974 aged 31. Lace persuaded Shandwick, Dewe Rogerson and a few others to invest into PR Week. PRWeek ran on a shoe string right up until the point it was sold it back to Haymarket, his former employers, for a very large sum circa 1988. There is also a US edition, which launched in 1998,
as well as a German edition. The magazine is published by the UK's largest independent publishing group,
Haymarket Media Group
Haymarket Media Group is a privately held media company headquartered in London. It has publications in the consumer, business and customer sectors, both print and online. It operates exhibitions allied to its own publications, and previously on ...
. The US edition, which is independent from the UK edition, is published by Haymarket Media.
[ The company has representation in Asia, via ''Campaign Asia-Pacific'' magazine.
''PRWeek'' also produces research about the UK public relations industry including the annual ranking of Top 150 PR consultancies and Salary Survey as well as surveys into industry-relevant issues such as staff retention.
In October 2013, the UK print edition of ''PRWeek'' changed from a weekly to a monthly edition;]
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Business magazines published in the United Kingdom
Monthly magazines published in the United Kingdom
Weekly magazines published in the United Kingdom
Public relations in the United Kingdom
Works about public relations
Magazines with year of establishment missing
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