Mark Zuckerberg Should Fire Himself
Mon., Feb. 21, 2022
By Fraser Seitel
Why Mark Zuckerberg’s ability to manage the company he founded has reached the point of diminishing returns.
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Why Mark Zuckerberg’s ability to manage the company he founded has reached the point of diminishing returns.
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Newark's University Hospital wants to hire a PR firm to promote it as a world-class academic medical center.
Brian Hale, who worked in the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s public affairs unit, has joined FTI Consulting in its cybersecurity practice.
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Are you looking for a unique and off-the-beaten-track vacation spot? Fukushima, site of the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl, beckons... Military fat cats get fatter as the State Dept. approves $6B General Dynamics' tank deal to Poland... US judge earns 'No-Spin Zone Award' as he torches off-the-wall Trump Organization legal move.
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Facebook parent Meta promotes David Ginsberg to VP, head of global communications and public affairs... Sparks & honey, Omnicom’s cultural intelligence consultancy, ups Kristin Molinari Cohen to CMO... Investment advisory firm RMB Capital names Amber Hickory marketing chief.
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The Dilenschneider Group will sponsor “New Challenges for Boards in the New Year,” on Feb. 24... The Museum of Public Relations will look back at more than a century of women in public relations at a March 3 event, “PR Women Who Changed History”... New York Women in Communications will offer “Weathering the Pandemic and Working Together for a Brighter Tomorrow” on March 9.
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Merced County, which has about 300K people living in California’s Central Valley, wants a partner to develop a marketing plan to promote oral health.
Longacre Square Partners works the media for Preferred Apartment Communities as it inks a $5.8B all-cash deal to be acquired by Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust.
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New York media go way overboard in weepy coverage of CNN's demoralized staff... Tim "The $99M Man" Cook could earn plenty of good PR by coughing up some Apple compensation... Eric Adams has been NYC mayor for six minutes and he's already trashing press... Pandemic blues even soured America's view of the military in 2021.
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Josh Crick, who once headed Leo Burnett’s 300-person digital and content team, has joined BCW as chief digital officer for North America.
Samsung Electronics America brings on Mark Lippert, who was US ambassador to South Korea during the Obama administration, as EVP and head of North America public affairs, effective March 1.
The Institute for Public Relations has launched IPR ELEVATE, a membership program for leaders who are dedicated to IPR’s research-focused mission... Maracaibo Media Group, a minority-owned agency, expanded into larger headquarters on Feb. 1... Australia's PR firms gird themselves as Aussies are free to travel overseas starting Feb. 21.
Champion signs Taziki’s Mediterranean Café, a Birmingham, AL-based fast-casual restaurant chain... Marino picks PR duties for Ownly, an e-commerce platform for the home buying process... BizCom Associates adds Denver-based home improvement brand Sam the Concrete Man.
Edelman names former DeVries Global CEO Heidi Hovland global chair of its food & beverage offering, effective Feb. 22... Genexa, which bills itself as maker of “the world’s first clean medicines” taps Emily Culp as CMO... Kelley Kronenberg, a business law firm with 12 locations throughout Florida and the United States, hires Sophia Turner-Smith as marketing guru.
University College Dublin, which has more than 33K students, is looking for a firm to help bolster its social media capabilities.
Allison Gollust, CNN's chief marketing officer, steps down from her post amid the turmoil at the WarnerMedia unit.
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Abernathy MacGregor is handing Madison Dearborn Partners’ $1.8B deal to acquire MoneyGram International, global leader in the digital person-to-person payments space.
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