Public affairs shop McBee Strategic Consulting has been hired to provide media and communications strategy for the Embassy of the Slovak Republic in Washington, D.C.
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The former Soviet bloc state, which was part of Czechoslovakia until that country’s dissolution in 1993, joined the European Union in 2004.
McBee will assist the Embassy with media relations and the development of a digital outreach strategy in a bid to strengthen U.S.-Slovakia relations, facilitating interviews and meetings with U.S. reporters, organizing educational events with U.S. think tanks and providing strategic counsel to key embassy officials.
The pact began in June and runs until August. The Embassy will pay McBee $16,500 a month for the work.
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