Michael Crittenden, a Washington-based reporter for the Wall Street Journal, is jumping to the PR realm with a VP slot at Mercury next week.
Crittenden covered finance and politics over seven years at the Journal, recently reporting on Congress' deliberations over the Obama administration's Iran negotiations. He previously reported for Dow Jones Newswires, Congressional Quarterly and the SNL Financial news service.
He is slated to join Mercury in DC on April 20.
Partner Vin Weber leads Mercury/DC.
DJE Holdings, parent of Edelman and Zeno, launches RUTH as an independent shop named after Ruth Edelman, mental health advocate, wife and longtime business partner of Dan Edelman.
New York City PR firms make up the largest slice of O'Dwyer's 147 firm overall ranking with 33 of 40 in the New York/New Jersey area either calling Manhattan their home or having a presence there.
Subject Matter+Kivvit, which joined forces in May, has rebranded as Avoq, an integrated shop with more than 200 professionals in Washington, New York, Asbury Park (NJ), Miami and Chicago.
While PR pros stationed at in-house comms. teams and those working for agencies share many of the same objectives, they also have markedly different top priorities, according to a recent report.
Edelman is cutting 240 employees or about four percent of its workforce to cope with the cooling down of the PR sector, according to a memo from CEO Richard Edelman.
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