Personnel. At cake we believe that only people who have worked as journalists really know what journalists want.

Cake director Janet Kipling and consultants Jo Cunningham, Heather Long, Emma Nutbrown, Mark Clements and Annette Richman all have many years experience as working journalists in print and broadcast media.

They speak their language, fast-tracking Cake clients into the news.

Janet Kipling

Janet Kipling Cake director Janet Kipling has more than 11 years experience as a journalist in newspapers and as a BBC radio reporter, producer and presenter, plus six years in public relations.

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Jo Cunningham

Jo Cunningham Cake consultant Jo Cunningham has been a journalist for 13 years and has spent five years working in public relations. Jo is currently a regular freelance journalist.


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Heather Long

Heather LongCake consultant Heather Long was born in Exeter and spent her childhood in Devon and Cornwall. After leaving school in Tiverton, Heather became an apprentice reporter on the local newspaper - the start of a career that would take her via newspapers in Devon and Hampshire to the newsrooms of the BBC

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Ann Knight

Jo Cunningham Ann has worked in journalism and public relations for 30 years and during that time has handled almost every type of news story possible...both as poacher and gamekeeper!


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Heather Long

Janet RaffertyJanet is a former managing director of specialist public sector outfit Citigate Communications. She has extensive crisis management experience having advised the Information Commissioner’s Office following the verdict on the Soham murders where the Data Protection Act was wrongly blamed for preventing data sharing on Ian Huntley.

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