Founder and Chairman Phil Hall is an award winning journalist. He was editor of the News of the World for five years, Britain 's biggest selling newspaper. From here he moved to take up the reins at Hello! magazine where he was editor in chief. He later became the Editorial Director of Development for Trinity Mirror, Europe 's largest newspaper publishing group and in his time there was responsible for the launch of several new magazines.
Phil has won eight major awards as editor of the News of the World and Hello! Including International Magazine of the year.
He has held influential positions on the Press Complaints Commission, first as a senior representative of the newspaper industry and then for an unprecedented second time as a representative of the magazine world. Recently he has also been a judge in the highly prestigious UK Press Awards.
Phil makes regular television and radio broadcasts and is a media expert to the BBC, ITN, Sky News, Radio 5 Live, LBC to name but a few as well as writing media articles for the likes of the Independent and the Guardian. He has worked with many celebrities and high profile people over the years including Pierce Brosnan, Celine Dion, Bob Geldof, the President of Ecuador and Heather Mills McCartney, and he has trained and set on their career paths more journalists than most PRs would ever hope to meet.
Phil’s profile and experience is recognized throughout the industry and this has led to regular appearances’ on the BBC Breakfast and Sky News, where he comments on the news issues of the day and has won his place as a guru in crisis management as he is uniquely placed to handle any crisis about to hit the media. He can anticipate and work with the media during a crisis situation and has advised on a number of high profile crisis situations in the last three years, working closely with expert media lawyers as well as the newspaper editors and the press complaints commission. He is in hot demand as a conference speaker on this topic and hosts regular session of PHA Media breakfast seminars. Phil is an avid West Ham United fan and a keen golfer. He is married to Marina and they have two children.
Phil has won eight major awards as editor of the News of the World and Hello! Including International Magazine of the year.
He has held influential positions on the Press Complaints Commission, first as a senior representative of the newspaper industry and then for an unprecedented second time as a representative of the magazine world. Recently he has also been a judge in the highly prestigious UK Press Awards.
Phil makes regular television and radio broadcasts and is a media expert to the BBC, ITN, Sky News, Radio 5 Live, LBC to name but a few as well as writing media articles for the likes of the Independent and the Guardian. He has worked with many celebrities and high profile people over the years including Pierce Brosnan, Celine Dion, Bob Geldof, the President of Ecuador and Heather Mills McCartney, and he has trained and set on their career paths more journalists than most PRs would ever hope to meet.
Phil’s profile and experience is recognized throughout the industry and this has led to regular appearances’ on the BBC Breakfast and Sky News, where he comments on the news issues of the day and has won his place as a guru in crisis management as he is uniquely placed to handle any crisis about to hit the media. He can anticipate and work with the media during a crisis situation and has advised on a number of high profile crisis situations in the last three years, working closely with expert media lawyers as well as the newspaper editors and the press complaints commission. He is in hot demand as a conference speaker on this topic and hosts regular session of PHA Media breakfast seminars. Phil is an avid West Ham United fan and a keen golfer. He is married to Marina and they have two children.
Award winning newspaper editor turned top PR man, Phil Hall edited both the News Of The World and Hello! magazine before starting his own PR agency PHA Media 4 years ago. He is an outstanding speaker who entertains his audiences with tasty morsels about life as a tabloid editor interlinked with the trials and tribulations of a PR guru.
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