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CorpComms Magazine is a monthly trade magazine targeted at the in-house communicator. Published in London, it is distributed throughout the UK and internationally.

Written in its own unique style, the magazine offers advice and informative articles on a range of topical subjects, such as social media, digital media, internal communications, sponsorship and corporate social responsibility.

The magazine runs regular features including interviews with leading in-house communicators, experts offering their 'top ten tips' on a variety of topics, and a focus on recent corporate rebrandings. New initiatives include personal views written by in-house communicators and an analysis of developments in the world of media.

CorpComms also publishes a weekly newsletter and hosts a website of the same name.

History
CorpComms Magazine was launched in 2005 as a bi-monthly publication by Cross Border Group. The magazine was the subject of a management buyout by long standing editor Helen Dunne in July 2008. The magazine is now published by her new company, Hardy Media.

Contributors and Reporters
Notable regular contributors to CorpComms Magazine include:


 * Rosie Murray-West
 * Caroline Poynton
 * Charlotte Beugge


 * Clare Harrison
 * Mark Leftly
 * Andrew Cave

CorpComms 100 Club
The CorpComms 100 Club was established in October 2007. It is an organisation which recognises the top performing corporate communicators in the UK

Previous member have included:


 * Adrian Bevington
 * Guy Black
 * Simon Lewis
 * Guto Harri
 * Leyan Phillips

Events
CorpComms Magazine hosts two national awards ceremonies per year. The CorpComms awards were launched in 2006 and celebrate excellence in corporate communications. They include, amongst others, awards for Best corporate publication; Best annual report; Best employee communications; Best crisis management; Best CSR strategy and overall grand prix winner. The inaugural Digi Awards were celebrated at the Battersea Power Station in September 2010 at the Monster Digerati Party. The awards were launched in order to acknowledge how digital and social media are changing the way that organizations communicate with their various stakeholder communities.

CorpComms also organizes a range of events targeting the key issues faced by in-house communicators such as digital media and sustainability.

Editor
Helen Dunne has worked in journalism for more than 20 years. An economics graduate, Helen started her career on International Financing Review, the weekly bible for the capital markets. She joined the Daily Telegraph in 1993, where she spent ten years, latterly as associate City editor. Helen then spent two years as deputy City editor of the Mail on Sunday, where she was shortlisted for Business Journalist of the Year, before embarking on a freelance career. She has written for many publications, including The Business, Observer, Sunday Telegraph and Sun.

Helen has also written three novels, including Trixie Trader about a fictional City trader, based on a column in the Daily Telegraph.