Phil Hall (born 8 January 1955) is a British journalist, the former editor of the ''

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'' and the founder and chairman of the PHA Group, an award-winning London PR agency. Hall entered journalism in 1974, as a reporter on the '' Dagenham Post''. He then moved to the ''

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'' and subsequently filled a sub-editor post on the ''

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'', but returned to reporting at the ''

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''. In 1992, he was appointed news editor of the ''

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'' and the following year, he joined the ''

'' as assistant editor, becoming deputy editor and, in 1995, editor.News of the World editor quits
, ''

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'', 23 May 2000 Hall remained in the job until May 2000 when he joined '' Hello!'' magazine as editor and later was appointed Editorial Director of Development at Trinity Mirror, before moving into PR consultancy.PHA Media
PHA Media. He founded the PHA Group in 2005, specialising in areas of PR including crisis and campaign management, personal profile building, media relations and more recently, digital communications.

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