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With in-person meetings on hold, the traditional media roundtable isn't coming back anytime soon. But that's no reason to write off the roundtable as a casualty of the COVID-19 crisis, particularly with all the videoconferencing tools that are now at everyone’s disposal.
Padilla lands New York Wine & Grape Foundation to build on its recent rebrand and raise the profile of New York wines... Matter Communications signs up HMS, healthcare technology company for PR, media relations, thought leader duties... Bospar lands Mendix, a unit of Siemens... Brandstyle Communications picks up clean wellness company, OLIKA.
Developing targeted programs encourages destination partners’ involvement and participation.
WPP chief Mark Read is selling a 49.99 percent stake to management of the revamped Finsbury Glover Hering, which will launch early next year with nearly 700 staffers in 18 countries.
The University of Oklahoma is looking for an agency that can provide creative marketing services in an effort to build the university’s online brand and presence.
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Dr. Anthony Fauci's days are numbered as the president sees his re-election hopes slipping away... A statue is a statue is a statue except when it's in Rio de Janeiro... Stop the presses! Mary Trump, a clinical psychologist, writes that her famous uncle passes with flying colors the test for being a narcissist.
Deutsche Bank CEO Christian Sewing told colleagues today that taking on sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as a client was "a critical mistake that never should have happened."
Pop’N Creative, a multicultural agency focused on digital and social content creation, and experience design, is launched by Lori J. Hall, former SVP, marketing at cable television channel TV One, and Jessica D. Lane Alexander, the channel’s former head of digital & social content... BUZZ Communications India forges a strategic partnership with Moscow-headquartered iMARS Communications... FiComm Partners CEO Megan Carpenter makes InvestmentNews' 2020 40 Under 40 List.
Ogilvy Government Relations is providing counsel for Tapestry Inc., the New York-based marketer of Coach, Kate Spade and Stuart Weitzman luxury fashion brands.
Buchwald, a talent agency in New York and Los Angeles, has brought on Sarah Shulman as director of corporate communications, a newly created role... Idea Grove names David Reiter VP of client development and partnerships, a new post. Reiter comes to Idea Grove from iluminere, a digital, social and mobile shop... Dix & Eaton taps Amy McGahan as media relations head.
Hospitality and travel brands have discovered a way to turn our current crisis into an opportunity, utilizing social media platforms in an effort to reinvent themselves while engaging and attracting new audiences.
The Tulsa Health Department plans to issue an RFP to PR firms looking for their input on the content of a public awareness program to promote best practices to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Axis Agency, which launched in 2005 as Weber Shandwick’s multicultural marketing unit, is now an independent and minority-owned shop as CEO Armando Azarloza and COO Carmen Lawrence have acquired the brand from Interpublic.
There will come a day when America finds out why president Trump was so solicitous of Vladimir Putin. But that day will never arrive for US servicemen and women killed as a result of Russian bounties paid to the Taliban for the murder of American soldiers.
Making travel safer and implementing new health and safety standards are among the top challenges the travel and hospitality sector now faces in reassuring and convincing Americans to venture out.
Boeing communications chief Niel Golightly has quit because of an employee complaint about an article that he wrote in 1987 as a Navy pilot questioning the ability of women to serve in combat.
Full flights are on the way, but many consumers seem less than enthusiastic about the idea.
As we prepare to celebrate the Fourth of July with family and friends, take a deep breath and a moment to be thankful for those who forged the path to our nation’s independence.
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