Kathryn Harrington, an agency vet recently embedded with the US Navy, has moved to FoodMinds in Washington as a senior VP.
FoodMinds co-founder Sue Pitman said Harrington 's hire is a response to demand for nutrition and public affairs counsel among clients.
As a SVP at kglobal, she led an embedded communications planning team at the Pentagon for the US Navy for the past year. She was previously a food and nutrition VP at Edelman and VP of public affairs for Ogilvy PR.
She also held communications posts with Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington and the American Chemistry Council. In the public sector she was a comms. director at the US Dept. of Interior and at the White House, and was a press deputy to ex-Sen. John Warner (R-Va.).
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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