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Finsbury Glover Hering represents Tenaris, Luxembourg-based steel pipe company, as it agrees to pay $78M to settle SEC allegations that it violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act via a Brazilian bribery scheme.
Qorvis Communications has signed on to represent SCM Consulting, which is a unit of the largest financial and industrial group in Ukraine. SCM's assets include the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol.
Al Jazeera says Israel is responsible for the murder of its journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was killed while covering an IDF raid on a Palestinian refugee camp in the West Bank.
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Global Strategy Group, a Democratic polling firm with union clients, admits it was dumb to represent Amazon as it sought to crush an organizing drive at its JFK8 warehouse on Staten Island.
Mercury Public Affairs is conducting US outreach for GloBee International about the plight of the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, which has suffered a constant barrage of Russian shelling and missile assaults that has killed at least 500 civilians.
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Tom Becker, head of the New York office of crisis shop Sitrick And Company, has joined FTI Consulting’s strategic communications practice.
Phil Revzin, senior counselor at The Dilenschneider Group, helped former UK prime minister Gordon Brown prepare his March 10 op-ed calling for the US to back European leaders who want Russian president Vladimir Putin to be prosecuted for the slaughter in Ukraine.
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US prosecutors have charged the New York-based brains behind the “I Love Russia” promo push with spying for Moscow and dealing directly with president Putin.
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Ronn Torossian has resigned as CEO of 5W Public Relations after various reports that he secretly owned a news site and used it to hammer competitive firms.
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WPP announced today that it is discontinuing operations in Russia due to Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine, which has created a humanitarian crisis in Europe.
Allison Gollust, CNN's chief marketing officer, steps down from her post amid the turmoil at the WarnerMedia unit.
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Jack Doyle, communications director for embattled British prime minister Boris Johnson, has resigned amid the partygate scandal.
Jeff Zucker, CNN Worldwide president, resigns for failing to report a "consensual relationship" with CMO Allison Gollust.
How the COVID-19 crisis forced one agency to adapt and become more creative at what it does.
How leveraging the right communications strategy while managing a product recall can mitigate reputational damage and protect business operations.
The five-year felony probation period placed on Pacific Gas and Electric Company after it was found criminally liable for a 2010 pipeline explosion that killed eight did not help rehabilitate the company, according to a U.S. District Court judge.
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Why resilience remains the quality that enables an organization’s leaders to most effectively respond in challenging times.
Is it really a crisis or a tree that fell in the woods? Data can tell you the answer.
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