A PR practitioner with over twenty years’ experience working both in-house and for an agency, Hutchinson has been running his own outfit since 2011, specialising in profile management and working with long-standing clients ranging from personalities such as
JK Rowling and Nigella Lawson (two clients he can safely name) to high-profile business leaders.
Personable and good-humoured, he was unambiguous about his industry’s greatest challenge when he caught up with Spear’s previously: ‘The issue of online and social media continues to be a massive challenge for all of us in the reputation arena. From Twitter to inaccurate “news” on the internet, managing stories in this space is hugely problematic.’
Is there a modus operandi for his work? ‘It’s about being strategic and thoughtful — and knowing your client well enough to understand their work… Even doing a good thing can turn into a damaging exercise if you’re
not careful.’
Then there are the ‘curveballs’. ‘Someone on the nightshift who’s doing a bit of a lazy job on putting their story up and doesn’t check facts — they’ll just put something inaccurate up and within an hour it’s gone global, and sucking that back in is virtually impossible.’
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Hutchinson previously worked at Colman Getty and managed publicity for esteemed book prizes, including the Man Booker International Prize and the
BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction.
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