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Sarah Lubman, former Brunswick Group partner and Wall Street Journal reporter, is joining Japanese telecommunications giant Softbank Group Corp. on Feb. 11 as partner, corporate communications.
GCI Health London adds Kim Walker, who was with HealthUnlimited unit, as deputy managing director... 4media Group hires Laura Pair as first MD and SVPs Daniel Schwartzberg (media relations), Matthew Hamilton (client relations)... LEVICK recruits Ian Lipner from LEWIS as SVP.
Alan VanderMolen is exiting as international president of WE Communications to pursue other interests in the upcoming weeks.
WPP has unloaded its minority stake in Richard Attias & Assocs., strategic consultancy and events firm that organized the controversial "Davos in the Desert" in Saudi Arabia last year.
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America's 'naive' national intelligence chiefs do their best to warn president Trump that climate change is a real threat, not "Chinese hoax." Good luck with that.
Heather Wilson has assumed Bill Burton’s California managing director duties at SKDKnickerbocker after the former Obama aide shocked the Democratic firm with his decision to join the independent presidential campaign of billionaire Howard Schultz. Emily Campbell takes on political work in the west.
Scott Dodsworth, who was head of strategic planning at British defense giant BAE Systems, has joined Hill+Knowlton Strategies as PA chief in the UK.
GCI Health hires United Nations' Trey Watkins as senior VP and Golin's Margaret Shubny as executive VP... Hill+Knowlton Strategies appoints Ivan Ross Vrana as Canada cannibis chief... Brownstein Group adds Meredith Schwinder as creative director and Minda Smiley as PR manager.
RAliance Communications healthcare firm links with UK-based The Difference Collective... Worldwide Communications founder Gail Thornton helps edit book highlighting PR theories from non-English speaking countries... Reputation Ink releases "Law Firm PR: The Definitive Guide to Getting Your Firm Noticed."
Renewable energy nonprofit GRID Alternatives has issued an RFP for agencies with a multicultural marketing background to provide research services.
Bill Burton, who helped engineer the rise of Barack Obama from obscure Senator to the White House, has exited Democratic powerhouse firm SKDKnickerbocker, to join ex-Starbucks chief Howard Schultz's quixotic bid for the White House as an independent.
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Max Rose doesn’t have the same media star power as fellow Democratic freshman Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, but he is bound to create quite a buzz in the $3.2B lobbying/public affairs business.
Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough will provide advisory services for Korea’s Washington D.C. Embassy in a bid to strengthen bilateral U.S./Korean relations.
Ex-Congressman Trey Gowdy, who joins Fox News, is latest politico to cash-in with media deal... Popular Mechanics "ousted" from Hearst Building in cost-cutting move... Conde Nast launches Vogue Business.
In a crisis, plans are nice but often not in place. What then?
Jerry Crasnick, who covered Major League Baseball for more than 30 years, has joined the Major League Baseball Players Assn. as senior advisor for player, agent and media relations.
FleishmanHillard puts Patrick Yu in charge of Hong Kong as Geoff Bilbrough returns home to New Zealand... FF Paris promotes executive creative director Olivier Lefebvre to president... broadhead recruits Martin Williams Advertising alum Jeff Tresidder to senior VP... Hemsworth Communications names four new department heads.
Next 15 Communications Group enjoyed robust organic growth during the second half of fiscal 2018, according to its trading update released today.
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