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WPP chalked up 8.7 percent growth in first-half like-for-like revenues to $8.2B, driven by part by a resurgence in demand for strategic communications advice from its PR firms, according to CEO Mark Read.
April Langwell has joined the Marine Corps as the first civilian director of its communications directorate at the Pentagon.
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| Mark Weiner, chief insights officer at PublicRelay, talks with Doug Simon about why starting out simple can be a great way to make research and data pay off for communicators on the latest "PR's Top Pros Talk" video interview. |
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TURNER is supporting PR in North America for Tourism Australia... North 6th Agency picks up Fetch Rewards... Alpha IR Group lands PCTEL, a wireless technology solutions company.
Most Americans agree that we’re not headed toward a good place. In fact, that seems to be the only thing we agree on.
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Stagwell CEO Mark Penn reported a 16 percent spurt in Q2 organic net growth as revenues advanced 221 percent to $672.9M.
Commentary
Jon Stewart, who shamed the Republicans into supporting the PACT Act, would make a great White House communications director... A "culture of indifference" in Germany empowered Adolf Hitler's rise to power, says senior curator of US Holocaust Memorial Museum, who wants Americans to speak up to defend our democracy... Mark Zuckerberg gets exposed as Nick Clegg heads for London.
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Citi promotes Jennifer Lowney to global head of communications, part of an overall reorganization of the company’s global public affairs division.
Luca Penati, one-time head of Weber Shandwick’s western region and leader of Ogilvy’s technology group, has joined BEE (BEE Content Design, Inc).
How can communicators manage the constant bombardment of negativity and believe that there’s a better tomorrow around the corner?
The New York Times reports print ad revenues rose 15.1 percent to $48.1M while digital ads slipped... Gannett vows cost-cutting drive in wake of big loss... Nicholas Kristof, the New York Times editor and columnist who resigned last year to run for governor of Oregon, is returning to the paper.
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French/West/Vaughan picks up The Advertising Checking Bureau, which offers turnkey channel marketing solutions... QUINN lands Macerich, an owner, operator and developers of major retail and mixed-used real estate... Cognito wins business for tech consultancy Thoughtworks.
Mark Allen & Co. names Hillary Herskowitz head of media and entertainment... Clarity appoints Margaret Carpo VP... Syntax, a multi-cloud and mission-critical applications managed cloud provider, taps former IBM marketing exec Catherine Solazzo for CMO spot.
Barrie, a city 55 miles north of Toronto located on the shores of Kempenfelt Bay, is looking for a firm to map out a sports tourism strategy.
Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck has inked a six-month $660K pact to provide US outreach for Kazakhstan’s national oil and gas company.
David Donaldson, who was VP-external affairs & corporate communications at Birmingham-based Vulcan Materials Co., has signed on as senior advisor at Summit Strategy Group, the corporate reputation, PA and ESG advisory in Los Altos, CA.
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