News of Firms: PAN Publishes COVID-19 Crisis Guide
Thu, Apr. 2, 2020
By Steve Barnes
PAN Communications has put together a reference guide with advice on how marketing and PR professionals can navigate the hurdles of the COVID-19 world... Ben Long, founder and CEO of Travaille Executive Search, has died. His firm placed PR and communications people in the DC area... William Mills Agency commissioned a survey by the Harris Poll to find out what effect social distancing was having on consumers’ use of digital banking and digital payments.
"While I was expecting to see a dashing Hans Solo PR type walk through my door, in walked Yoda instead," said Jack Potter, former US postmaster general, in recalling the first time that he met the diminutive and soft-spoken Harold Burson.
The Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission has hired MWWPR to promote and handle media outreach for the memorial honoring the nation's 34th president that will be dedicated in Washington on May 8, the 75th anniversary of V-E Day.
Countless companies and organizations have used the year 2020 as a thematic anchor for their strategic plans. Yet, with 2020 now upon us, that popular optical allusion will soon no longer be available to global management and marketing teams. Here are some ideas for replacing it.
In 1983, I was an account supervisor in Burson-Marsteller’s Los Angeles office and learned one afternoon that Harold Burson would be visiting the next day. I took him to meet a particularly difficult client with a tough story to tell. (3 reader comments)
2019 was a year jammed with wall-to-wall breaking news, making it harder for PR firms to chalk up placements for clients. Here are some of the highlights and lowlights covered by O’Dwyer’s in 2019.
5W Public Relations is handling New York performance artist David Datuna, who gained global fame Dec. 7 for removing the $120K banana that was duct-taped to a wall at the Art Basel exhibition in Miami and eating it. (3 reader comments)
Patti Temple Rocks, who exited Golin after a six-year run last year, is among those profiled in a Wall Street Journal report about ageism in the workplace.
Stephanie Smith, who was global client and business development officer at MSL, has landed at Invariant to spearhead the government affairs/PA shop's push into strategic communications. 
The Influencer Marketing Association, which includes Weber Shandwick, Unilever, 360PR+, Best Buy and Hunter, has launched as the official trade organization committed to protecting the authenticity and ethics of influencer marketing.
Communicating around a topic that no one really understands begs some key questions – what exactly is public relations? When you build a communications strategy, what’s the endgame?
Harold Burson, 98-year-old founding chairman of Burson-Marsteller, will move from New York to Memphis on July 23. (1 reader comment)
Top PR pros analyzed the seismic shifts reshaping the marketing communications business during a panel discussion presented by Public Relations Society of America's New York chapter on April 17 that was held by Makovsky & Co.
Federal lobbying powerhouse Ballard Partners, which has close ties with the Trump administration, has opened a strategic communications unit led by White House aide who handled PR for Brett Kavanaugh confirmation.
My life changed forever when my sister, Lucille, met Jack O’Dwyer in 1963. I became a big fan of Jack and his first employee. (1 reader comment)
2018 was a tumultuous year for PR as Donald Trump once again dominated the media landscape. WPP, Weber Shandwick’s win of IBM, Jamal Khashoggi and a string of major acquisitions did grab PR headlines. The year ended on a sad note with the passing of Jack O’Dwyer. (2 reader comments)
Let's sort out the White House's PR mess. In order of “PR terribleness,” these are the five worst Trump communications non-professionals. (1 reader comment)
The latest groundswell for diversity in the U.S. marketing sector seems more genuine and ambitious than previous industry inclusivity efforts. (4 reader comments)
Economic stats, including lowest unemployment since 2000, rising incomes, and a stock market that is setting records, offset negatives of the Trump Administration. (3 reader comments)
CooperKatz is committed to the term “PR” as the best descriptor of what its practitioners do, saying that the meaning of the term is evolving. (3 reader comments)
Carl Byoir & Assocs., third largest PR firm that vanished in the maw of WPP, was not the only casualty of a new ad industry-dominated culture. Nine PR media and 16 New York PR groups bit the dust. (1 reader comment)
Michael Morris gets legal and cybersecurity duties at Rasky Partners; Moyra Knight, Karl Uhlendorf and Andrew Lewis move up at pharmaceutical house Astellas; and Laura Braam shifts to Sheridan PR of Franklin, TN.
Beth Casteel, a veteran journalist of the Associated Press, joined The Reis Group as senior counselor.