Abigail Levene

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Abigail Levene

Abigail Levene is a founding director of corporate communications & content agency Stampa. Based in Stampa’s Amsterdam office, she advises on and executes public relations, internal communications, crisis and content strategies for multinational organisations. Prior to co-founding Stampa in 2008, Abigail was bureau chief of Reuters Netherlands and a Reuters correspondent in London, Rome and Amsterdam

Lessons from the newsroom

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?

Shweta Kulkarni Van Biesen, Abigail Levene, James Curtis

Posted: 28 November 2019

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...