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Dear Member

I wanted to keep in touch and let you know that I am thinking of you. Along with your own organisation IBP is experiencing disruption, but in spite of the enormous challenges we all face I am letting you know that IBP is putting in place plans to continue our Annual National Journalism Awards and the Futures Group sessions.

Journalism Awards

In response to the changing COVID-19 situation we have seized the opportunity and developed a comprehensive digital layer to run in parallel with the planned live version of the Journalism Awards.
The digital layer is an exciting, modern solution which will not only allow the event to go ahead but exceed results from previous years.
In addition we have developed an enhanced social media marketing campaign, which will run in the led up to the online Call for Entries, the Awards event and beyond. This social media campaign will launch across digital and traditional channels.
The social media marketing strategy gives members, journalists and sponsors the opportunity for exposure for the full lifecycle of the campaign, pre-and-post-event.
The social media marketing campaign’s aim is to give the sponsors – the people who make the event happen – recognition for supporting the work of individual journalists and the built environment media.
Through this social media campaign we aim to build excitement and anticipation for the awards and to make sure that the hard work and professionalism shown by the built environment press, during 2019–2020, does not go unrecorded.

Futures Group

Plans are at an early stage to hold our first Futures Group online event in May. Working closely with City University and other partners, the first session will be: ‘Response and responsibility: interrogating truth without worsening a crisis’ (working title).

More information will be sent out in due course.

In the meantime, do use IBP twitter feed to keep our members informed of your plans as we engage with and emerge from this difficult period.

Keep well everyone.

Gerald

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