Fellowships for islanders

Thursday 10th September 2009, 2:59PM BST.

Mike Sunier (left) and Steve Falla

A FORMER JEP journalist has become one of the first two Channel Islanders to be made a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations.

Mike Sunier, the founder of Crystal PR, and Guernsey’s Steve Falla, who founded Orchard PR in Guernsey, have become two of only 300 fellows out of the Institute’s 9,500 national members.

Fellowship is the highest level of membership of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations and is awarded in recognition of ‘outstanding work in public relations and service to the Institute’.

After starting his career at the JEP as a journalist, Mr Sunier has worked in PR since 1982, when he gained in -house experience in London at the headquarters of Lloyds Bank and Barclays Bank. In 1994 he founded Crystal PR, the first PR agency in Jersey to be dedicated to financial services.

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