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Weber Shandwick has hired Sarah Tyre, who was Burson-Marsteller's New York crisis lead, and Marc Drechsler, ex-head of Ketchum's financial communications practice, as executive VPs in New York.
Michael Cohen sealed his fate when he hired Lanny Davis as his counselor. (5 reader comments)
Publicis Groupe's Fallon, which picked up creative duties for Papa John's a month ago, drops the account following furor over the use of the N-word by the pizza chain's founder.
Sitrick And Company is representing Papa John’s founder and former chairman John Schnatter, who has blasted the company for acting on misinformation when it asked him to step down. (2 reader comments)
Edelman is advising Ohio State University on the sex abuse investigation linked to Richard Strauss, the deceased doctor of the school's wrestling team. (1 reader comment)
For the last year, Papa John's founder John Schnatter has made himself a household name, and for all the wrong reasons. (5 reader comments)
The United States Olympic Committee today named Sarah Hirshland CEO as the embattled organization seeks to rebound from the sex abuse scandal surrounding former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar.
Former Justice Dept. official Scott Schools has joined Uber Technologies as its first chief compliance officer. Human resources chief Liane Hornsey exits following complaints about the handling of employee grievances.
Dave Schraeder, most recently senior VP and crisis management lead at Huntsworth's Grayling, has moved to RF|Binder for the executive managing director post.
Sard Verbinnen & Co. serves as media contact for the obituary of Wang Jian, co-founder of beleaguered Chinese conglomerate HNA Group.
WPP has hired two law firms to track down the source of leaked emails that were sent to current and ex-staffers following the extraction of CEO Martin Sorrell. (3 reader comments)
Peter Fonda has apologized for a late-night Twitter rant in which he suggested that Barron Trump should be separated from his mother and "put in a cage with pedophiles." (15 reader comments)
Netflix fired chief communications officer Jonathan Friedland for his "descriptive use of the N-word on at least two occasions," according to a memo from CEO Reed Hastings. (3 reader comments)
Extracted WPP CEO Martin Sorrell today denied visiting a prostitute and paying her with corporate funds, during an interview at the Cannes Lions festival. (1 reader comment)
Extracted WPP CEO Martin Sorrell slammed a leak from “the very top of the company” about the probe into his alleged personal misconduct during an event today at the Cannes Lions festival. (4 reader comment)
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich resigns over a past consensual affair with a staffer, a violation of the electionics giant's non-fraternization policy that applies to all managers. (3 reader comments)
Understanding the consequences of a potential misstep and knowing how to address it ahead of time should be part of the planning when developing PR messages.
WPP chairman Roberto Quarta defended the handling of the "extraction" of founder Martin Sorrell, telling shareholders at today's general meeting "the board acted appropriately throughout."
WPP Co-COO Mark Read today sent a memo to staffers to stress the ad/PR giant's commitment to fostering working environments where staffers "feel safe and supported."
Martin Sorrell, who was "extracted" from the helm of WPP in April, was under scrutiny by the ad/PR firm about whether he used company funds to pay for the services of a prostitute. (1 reader comment)
The Financial Times reports that Martin Sorrell was verbally abusive to executive assistants, junior staffers at WPP. It contends that WPP’s probe into Sorrell’s personal misconduct included his alleged visit to a brothel in Mayfair. (1 reader comment)
Facebook finds itself apologizing yet again, this time for a glitch that caused some users’ private content to appear publicly.
WPP has cut ties with Gustavo Martinez, former head of JWT, two months after it settled a sexual harassment brought against him by ex-JWT chief communications officer Erin Johnson.
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