On the Move: Six Flags Hires Carnival Cruise Vet
Thu, May 7, 2026
By Steve Barnes
Six Flags Entertainment Corporation hires Amy Martin Ziegenfuss as CMO, effective June 3. Ziegenfuss was most recently CMO at Carnival Cruise Line... Narrative Strategies brings on Hanna Beckman and Rich Casale as senior directors... Grayling has appointed Maury Postal as EVP, creative strategy and innovation services... HMH (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), an educational publisher and technology company focused on K–12 education, assessments and professional learning, names Jessica Naeve CMO.
A nonprofit dedicated to preserving the legacy of the women who transformed the American workforce during World War II is looking for an agency that can raise awareness and provide marketing support for a forthcoming awards program.
Blue Highway Advisory enlists Rob Legare as senior litigation communications advisor and Sam Huxley to oversee digital reputation management, open-source Intelligence, risk monitoring and digital public affairs... Sachs Media promotes Amy Climenhage and Kelly Corder to VP... Georgia-Pacific ups John Mulcahy to SVP of communications, public affairs and stewardship. Mulcahy, who has been with the company for more than 30 years, was most recently VP of stewardship.
See how earned media is shaping nonprofit authority in an AI-driven world, and why third-party validation, consistent coverage, and strategic storytelling are critical to building trust, increasing visibility, and driving long-term growth.
The Dublin Rape Crisis Centre wants a firm to conduct a rebranding exercise and to relaunch its website.
Flowers Communications Group, a Chicago-headquartered integrated marketing communications firm, opens an Atlanta office in the city’s Galleria Office Park... spark* communications, a consumer public relations and digital marketing agency, launches in Charleston... The Marketing Cloud, a Stagwell company, introduces a specialized marketing toolkit for its flagship product, Agent Cloud, which is designed specifically for small-to-medium businesses and in-house agency teams.
FINN Partners names Greg Swan head of futures and client transformation in the U.S... Haleon, a consumer health company, appoints Richard Manso as U.S. chief marketing officer... The Natural Diamond Council brings on Susie Dewey as CMO.
AI will change most industries, but given the uniquely human nature of comms, it will affect our field a little differently than others.
Glendale Elementary School District #40 is looking for a firm to provide PR, marketing, and communications services designed to increase student enrollment and strengthen community engagement.
Augusta Regional Airport wants proposals for an integrated marketing campaign to position it as the preferred air travel gateway of the Central Savannah River Area, which has a population of about 770K people.
The Public Relations Global Network brings on Warsaw-based K+ Group as its member agency in Poland... Creative and digital marketing firm 2TON Creative and South Florida-based The Buzz Agency have merged... Salient Holdings is rebranding its three previously distinct agency brands, Honeymoon Creative, Candor and Salient Agency, as Honeymoon. 
Southwest Montana is looking for a firm to handle digital communications, content development and website management to support its destination promotion efforts.
The philanthropy sector appears to be losing its position on the moral high ground, according to the Global Risk Advisory Council’s Reputation Risk Index for Q1 2026.
In a recent conversation about the evolving media landscape, Doug Simon, CEO of D S Simon Media, spoke with Campbell O’Connor, Group Director, Media & Engagement at Real Chemistry, about how AI is influencing media relations and healthcare communications.
Newsrooms and TV producers are increasingly incorporating AI into their work. Unfortunately, most brands haven’t caught up.
Highwire launches AcroAI, an agentic AI platform... FGS Global introduces a new brand identity... Coyne Public Relations puts an inclusive spin on Take Your Child to Work Day with its new “Take Your VIP to Work Day”... Marino SVP Jordan Isenstadt is elected to the board of directors of the National Cannabis Industry Association.
Tourism Jasper is looking for a firm to handle its annual Jasper in January festival, which is vital in supporting winter visitation to the town located on the northern edge of the Canadian Rockies.
AI is disrupting shareholder activism communications, forcing financial PR pros to reshape their narratives so they are accurately interpreted and amplified by algorithmic engines, according to a white paper by KekstCNC... Team Trump sneaks into NYC to praise gas pipeline project... What's moral about threatening to wipe out an entire civilization, JD?
