David Cracknell

David Cracknell is a businessman and former journalist in the United Kingdom. Formerly Political Editor of the Sunday Times, he is currently head of his own public relations firm, Big Tent Communications.

Biography

Cracknell was educated at Pembroke College, Oxford and the University of Southampton. Prior to working in business, he covered politics for newspapers for over 15 years, including stints at the Sunday Telegraph and Press Association. He also helped found Sunday Business with Jeff Randall, the former BBC Business Editor and now Sky presenter, in 1998.

Following his departure from the Sunday Times, he was a Managing Director at PR firm FD, formerly Financial Dynamics, as well as being Chairman of its public affairs division, where he advised Northern Rock on its recovery plan following the bank being taken into public ownership. He left in August 2008 to found his own communications firm, Big Tent Communications, of which he is Managing Director.

He was listed in the PR Week Powerbook in 2008, a "collection of the most powerful people in PR".

External links

Big Tent Communications company site [1] career biography at linkedin.com