Lauren French, a Congressional reporter for Politico, has moved to McBee Strategic Consulting as senior manager to lead a new policy communications offering.
McBee said French helms Press Office, a service for clients in need of "policy-driven" PR and communications, in addition to traditional PA work for the firm.
At Politico, she penned the news org's morning Congressional dispatch, Huddle, and covered the Hill after stints focused on tax policy and the Internal Revenue Service.
The 2012 grad interned at Reuters, McClatchy and the Houston Chronicle.
Husch Blackwell Strategies has added FleishmanHillard alum Michael Slatin as a principal in its public affairs group.
Rory Cooper, a veteran Republican operative and policy specialist, has joined Teneo’s Washington office as senior managing director in its strategy & communications practice.
Brian Fallon, who served as national press secretary for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential run, is signing on next month as Vice President’s Kamala Harris’ campaign communications director.
TikTok is nothing more than a Chinese propaganda tool that poses “a grave threat to America’s national security and, in particular, impressionable children and young adults,” say two Congressmen who want the platform registered as a foreign agent.
Public Strategies Washington has added Abbie Sorrendino, a former aide to now Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
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