B-M Alum Smith Takes COS Post for Sen. Bennet
Fri, Apr. 23, 2021
By Kevin McCauley
Jess Smith, who was managing director of operations in Burson-Marsteller's public affairs & crisis group, is now chief of staff for Colorado Senator Michael Bennet.
| Category: Government | Return to Latest News |
Jess Smith, who was managing director of operations in Burson-Marsteller's public affairs & crisis group, is now chief of staff for Colorado Senator Michael Bennet.
Rational 360 has signed a $600K pact to provide strategic communications services to Kenya.
Finsbury Glover Hering has picked up Pivotal Ventures, the investment and incubation company launched by Melinda Gates to advance social progress in the US.
Qatar has signed a $30K monthly government affairs contract with Integrated Strategy Group, the firm co-founded by former Democratic Congressman and National Football League quarterback Heath Shuler.
Mercury’s Gabriella Castillo, who served the Joe Biden campaign in Florida as deputy state director, has joined the Commerce Dept. as PA director.
Teneo has acquired a minority stake in WestExec Advisors, the DC geopolitical firm that was co-founded by secretary of state Tony Blinken, and adds former senator Chris Dodd as senior advisor.
Anita Dunn, founding member SKDKnickerbocker who returned to the firm after advising the Biden/Harris ticket, is rejoining Team Biden to work on the transition.
President-elect Joe Biden has named campaign manager Jen O’Malley Dillon deputy chief of staff.
UK prime minister Boris Johnson is losing his communications director as Lee Cain, a former Vote Leave official, plans to call it quits early next year.
KP Public Affairs is handling PR for the launch of California’s “Don’t Get Caught Off Guard” campaign to educate people about the Golden State’s earthquake warning system. Ad agency Pulsar is the lead on the push.
FDA external affairs chief John "Wolf" Wagner, a political appointee of president Trump, is out as fallout continues from commissioner Stephen Hahn's misstatements about benefits blood plasma to treat COVID-19.
SKDKnickerbocker is working the $35M “Vote Safe California” marketing communications program to bolster voter participation in the November election.
Pundits who believe the presidential debates should be scrapped display the classic “throw the baby out with the bathwater” reaction. Let’s fix them instead.
Olivia Lapeyrolerie, first deputy press secretary for New York mayor Bill de Blasio, is exiting City Hall for a VP slot at Democratic PR firm SKDKnickerbocker.
Xenophon Strategies has a nearly $600K contract with Uzbekistan designed to highlight its progress on improving human rights with the goal of ending the cotton boycott erected against the former Soviet republic.
Mary Elizabeth Taylor, one of the highest-ranking Black officials in the Trump administration, has resigned to protest the president 's handling of racial issues.
Federal Communications Commission chief Ajit Pai has recast his media team with the departure of press secretary Tina Pelkey, who is joining Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin space company as senior manager, government affairs communication.
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) today announced plans to introduce legislation designed to impose a moratorium on "risky" mergers and acquisitions during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Lily Adams, who was communications director for Kamala Harris’ presidential bid and a spokesperson for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 run for the White House, has joined Unite the Country, the PAC supporting Joe Biden’s campaign, as chief communications officer.
Senate moves against China's bid to pressure American companies from expressing their right to free speech.
| More » |
