James Curtis

James Curtis

James Curtis is a founding director of Stampa. He heads Stampa’s London office and leads its content team, serving clients including Coca-Cola, TenneT and Solvay. James set up a dedicated news team to support Stampa’s clients across Europe with internal and external communications. Before Stampa, James was a business journalist for 17 years.

 In the words of the Financial Times’ Simon Caulkin, ““Companies that understand the force of straight talking are so rare that we are astonished when we find them.” So what can communications professionals learn from their peers in journalism about crafting clear and engaging messaging? 

Before Lucy Kellaway quit the Financial Times to retrain as a teacher, she revelled in ridiculing how companies communicate.

Inventor of the tongue-in-cheek Golden Flannel Awards and the Guffipedia online ‘dictionary of business jargon and...