Soren Dayton, a senior counseler and VP at Rasky Baerlein Strategic Communications, has moved to Hill+Knowlton Strategies in Washington as a senior VP focused on digital advocacy.
The digital PR specialist was at Prism Public Affairs through its merger with Rasky in early 2014 and earlier was a senior strategist for New Media Strategies, the DC digital marketing shop now part of MXM Social.
Dayton was a legislative aide to Rep. Nick Smith (R-Mich.) and coordinated delegates for Sen. John McCain's 2008 presidential bid.
Ellen Moran heads H+K's DC office.
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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