Pearson has appointed Genevieve Shore to the new position of director of digital strategy for the whole group. Effective from 1st September Shore will co-ordinate the company's digital strategy.

She has for the past two years served as Penguin's group digital director, and in her new role will perform a similar role across...

Pearson has been awarded the Gold Standard in the 2009 Race for Opportunity (RFO) benchmarking survey. The publisher was ranked second out of 44 participating organisations, up from sixth place in 2008. RFO is a network of private and public sector organisations working across the UK to promote
the business case for race and diversity....

Pearson, the educational publisher, has held preliminary talks with Prisa, the Spanish media group, over the possible purchase of a stake in Santillana, Prisa’s publishing house and a market leader in school textbooks in Spanish-speaking Latin America, reports the FT.

It is understood that Prisa could be looking to sell up to 30...

Pearson has been rebuffed after sounding out investors last week about raising £270m in cash for acquisitions, reports the FT.

The company asked some of its largest shareholders whether they would support a placing of new shares equivalent to 5% of the group, telling them it wanted to use the money for unnamed acquisition...