Amy Orton

Account Director

Amy is an award-winning journalist, Chartered PR Practitioner and Chartered Manager. A BBC-trained local government reporter, she has a post-graduate diploma in journalism.

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MIDLANDS SMALL PR AGENCY OF THE YEAR

Industry experience

Content Director, 1284 Communications
Communications Manager, University Hospitals Leicester
Local Democracy Reporter, BBC East Midlands and Leicester Mercury

Professional qualifications

Post-graduate Diploma in Senior Leadership, Loughborough University
Diploma in Senior Leadership, Chartered Management Institute
National Certificate Examination, National Council for the Training of Journalists
Post-graduate Diploma in Journalism, De Montfort University
BA (Hons) Media Studies, De Montfort University

Biography

Amy is a Chartered PR Practitioner with more than 10 years of news experience. She specialises in East Midlands local government comms. Amy was trained under the BBC-funded Local Democracy Reporting Service and was previously the Leicestershire LDR. She has a BA in Media Studies and a post-graduate diploma in Journalism. Amy was comms manager for University Hospitals Leicester during the pandemic and has a Distinction in the Strategic Leadership post-graduate diploma from Loughborough University School of Business and Economics.