AMW PR Pitches Media on Ukraine Refugee Crisis
Wed, Nov. 16, 2022
By Kevin McCauley
Poland's state bank enlists New York's AMW PR to pitch media about refugee crisis brought on by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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Poland's state bank enlists New York's AMW PR to pitch media about refugee crisis brought on by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Poland's national bank signs MikeWorldWide to $3M pact to highlight the humanitarian crisis triggered by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Poland is hosting the most Ukrainian refugees, 1.4M people.
Turks & Caicos Islands has hired FGS Global for crisis duty to deal with the "reputational impact" triggered by wave of murders including a vacationing American.
Hill+Knowlton Strategies has been hired to provide “an all-inclusive crisis communications and training plan” for a Texas refinery that is owned by Mexico’s state-owned oil company, Petroleos Mexicanos.
WPP’s Group M Worldwide is handling Ukraine’s Ministry of Culture and Information Policy’s “Advantage Ukraine” campaign to promote confidence among businesses, investors and policymakers that the battered country will recover from the Russian invasion.
The Washington Commanders National Football League team has added Harbinger Strategies and Cyprus Advocacy to its roster to handle matters related to a Congressional probe into the team’s alleged toxic workplace culture.
Mark MacGann, who was Uber’s chief European lobbyist from 2014 to 2016, outed himself as the whistleblower who leaked 124K documents to the Guardian that documented the ridesharing company’s aggressive tactics in Europe.
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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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