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The City of Renton, which is located 11 miles from downtown Seattle, wants to hire a "world-class" and "cutting edge" digital marketing services firm to promote it as a destination for tourism, recreation, business opportunity and investment. (1 reader comment)
Richard Edelman will become the first PR firm executive to be inducted into the Advertising Hall of Fame of the American Advertising Federation. (2 reader comments)
New categories auto/transportation, education, energy, industrial, non-profits, purpose/CSR and real estate finance & development bring the total number of PR specialties ranked by O'Dwyer's to 19.
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Climate change now leads as the single greatest issue facing corporate brands today, according to an annual analysis by strategy firm High Lantern Group.
Jim Rich, former New York Daily News editor-in-chief, seeks to revive Deadspin... Meredith Corporation unloads fan-focused sports and entertainment site FanSided to Minute Media... Bill Abbott, CEO of Crown Media Family Networks (owner of the Hallmark Channel), is stepping down after 11 years in the position and in the aftermath of the gay wedding ad flap.
Brunswick Group has hired Charlie Koons as a partner focused on mergers & acquisitions, investor engagement, shareholder activism and corporate governance.
Rocket Science Marketing & PR adds fresh products unit of Dole Food Company and Saleen Automotive, which is returned to the professional motorsports business... Modern Currency Public Relations checks in at The Ambrose Hotel in Santa Monica... Beach House PR scoops up all-natural deodorant brand Humble.
Leslie Scott, who was American Airlines' senior manager for global communications, is moving to United Airlines.
The PR Council has voted in BCW global president Jim Joseph as chair. Joseph, who will serve a two-year term, succeeds Weber Shandwick CEO Gail Heimann... Purple Strategies has brought on Hill+Knowlton Strategies' Rebecca Ballard as managing director, communications, marketing and engagement, a newly created role... Olympic Steel has named Michelle Pearson-Casey VP, corporate communications & marketing
BGR Government Affairs is working on a $60K per-month effort to provide strategic communications services to Honduras, which has been rocked by corruption. (1 reader comment)
Commentary
News flash: Trust in media rose in 16 of 26 global markets surveyed last year by Edelman’s 20th Trust Barometer... Say what? Wal-Mart, Geico, Amazon, Best Buy, ETrade and Kroger help fund Vladimir Putin's propaganda machine.
Jim Lehrer, who teamed with Robert MacNeil in 1975 to launch “The MacNeil/Lehrer Report” on PBS, died today. He was 85. (2 reader comments)
A growing percentage of consumers today are paying attention to companies’ stances on social, environmental and political issues, according to a new report.
In a crisis, long-term reputation matters a lot more than short-term stock price. (1 reader comment)
A look at some of the tax changes that might affect your financial planning in 2020.
GAMCO Investors hires Jennifer Schlueter, one-time financial communications head at Kreab Gavin Anderson, as CCO... Ingredion, food ingredient company, adds Tiffany Willis as VP-corporate communications officer... BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee ups Scott Wilson to VP-corporate communications & community relations.
Search Engine Optimization keeps mutating as use of recent best practices would result in a PR firm losing an account today. (1 reader comment)
Athens, Georgia’s Convention and Visitors Bureau seeks an agency that can develop and produce the 2020-2021 edition of its official Athens Visitors Guide.
Teneo has inked a six-month $840K contract to manage the communications department of Neom, which is the $500B mega-city that is supposed to be the centerpiece of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s plan to diversify the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s economic base.
Former Senator Al D’Amato’s Park Strategies paid $12,250 to settle allegations that its work for a Somalia-based client that is on the Treasury Dept. global terrorism list violated US sanctions. (1 reader comment)
Brian Communications has brought on Bill Marimow, former e-i-c at Philadelphia Inquirer and Baltimore Sun, and David Demarest (ex-White House communications director) as senior advisors.
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