Omnicom Merges Golin, Ketchum; Folds PN into FH
Tue, Feb. 10, 2026
By Kevin McCauley
Omnicom CEO John Wren is merging Golin and Ketchum as part of the consolidation following the takeover of Interpublic. Porter Novelli is to be folded into FleishmanHillard.

Paradox Public Relations is lining up support for Ukrainian artists via a partnership with Art Shield, a nonprofit that preserves art in conflict zones.
InnoVision Marketing Group, a San Diego-based agency, is named AOR for the inaugural Native American Heritage Festival.
Personal reflections on the challenges of expanding a successful PR agency into new markets.
Coyne Public Relations will handle the opening of the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village in a partnership with Pride Live.
PR pros listed a lack of resources as a top priority at their jobs, and a majority reported little to no diversity in their company’s leadership, according to Muck Rack’s latest State of PR report.
5W Public Relations is partnering with the Ad Council to celebrate the 80th anniversary of Smokey Bear, which is the longest running PSA in US history.
AB InBev has hired Donna Lorenson as chief communications officer and elevated the PR function to the senior leadership structure in the aftermath of the Bud Light marketing disaster.
Tunheim handled the Minnesota USA World Expo bid committee, which on June 21 congratulated Serbia for landing the 2027 event.
United Minds, management consultancy, has launched Myriant, a business resiliency offering to help clients deal with the challenges during this era of misinformation, polarization and geopolitical upheaval.
ImageShield, which guards against online image abuse, is looking for a communications pro to handle its PR and marketing campaigns.
Who knew that there is a real paper company, Pennsylvania Paper & Supply, inside the iconic building seen at the opening of every episode of “The Office?”
Peter Himler, founder of Flatiron Communications, remembers his first boss, Bobby Zarem.
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic’s economic impact on newsrooms, PR and communications professionals generally don’t believe that earning media coverage has gotten any more difficult in the last year, according to a recent report.
Kathy Bloomgarden (Ruder Finn CEO), Peter Finn (Finn Partners CEO) and Amy Binder (RF|Binder CEO) provide their thoughts about their father, David Finn, the PR legend who turned 100 on Aug. 30.
The Southern Poverty Law Center has appointed Tia Gordon chief communications officer. She had been CCO and head of advocacy for the UN Women organization.
Sard Verbinnen & Co. handles PR for Xponential Fitness, which plans an initial stock offering pegged in the $1.3B range.
There are many hard lessons for the PR business coming out of the Covid-19 pandemic and its devastating effects on employment and the economy, but with the death of George Floyd under the boot of a police officer and the public reaction to it, there is even more for us to know. 



















