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Honouring those who set the bar for excellence in visual communications, Communicate magazine has announced its shortlisted entries for the Lens Awards 2025. This year’s selection promises an exciting and competitive evening celebrating the very best in creative innovation and storytelling.

Building strong connections with charities, businesses and local communities helps raise brand awareness, strengthen reputation and create positive change. This year’s Corporate Engagement Awards will honour outstanding achievements in partnerships, sponsorships and CSR across 27 categories. With the 2025 awards open for entries, the programme continues to set the standard for corporate engagement.

Having been rewarding best practice in cross-sector City communications for over a decade, the Corporate & Financial Awards now enters its thirteenth year. In today's competitive landscape, the challenges corporate communications faces have only persisted as the sector has evolved. For communicators and those that influence the City, the programme offers recognition of quality across corporate communications.

Alongside her role as AI and analytics strategy consultant at IBM, Ella Ovenden leads charity Girls in Data, encouraging young women to consider a career in the industry. She tells Rebecca Pardon why we must pay attention to data's gender gap.

Rebecca Pardon speaks to Jez Clark, co-founder and CEO at Eden Smith Group, on how he thinks the world of work and recruitment is changing.

At the ICCO Global Summit in Istanbul, Onur Varol, assistant professor at Sabanci Univeristy, speaks to Rebecca Pardon about social media's bot problem and what this means for reputation management.

At the ICCO Global Summit in Istanbul, Rebecca Pardon speaks to Erdinc Ergenc, senior financial journalist at Forbes Turkey, on how the medium for getting messages across, and controlling the narrative, is drastically changing for companies.