El-Baz Spins for Apple Music
Wed, Jan. 22, 2025
By Kevin McCauley
Mika El-Baz, who did a nearly 18-year run at Sony Music’s RCA Records label, has joined Apple Music’s PR team, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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Mika El-Baz, who did a nearly 18-year run at Sony Music’s RCA Records label, has joined Apple Music’s PR team, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Katie Martin Kelley has joined Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group as executive VP-communications.
Doug Mishkin, who was in charge of the National Football League’s gambling-related commercial activities, has joined Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner’s global sports and entertainment group.
Kristina Schake has joined Walt Disney Co. as executive VP-global communications as she wrapped up a 10-month stint as the Biden administration’s COVID-19 public education campaign director.
Sean Smith is leaving the EVP of corporate counsel spot at Porter Novelli to join the Recording Academy, which runs the GRAMMY Awards, as EVP of communications, effective Oct. 25.
Dana Steiner, publicist for the late Larry King, is joining Clarity as VP, media and entertainment.
Warner Bros. Television Group brings on NBCUniversal's Rebecca Marks as executive VP of publicity and communications, effective June 1.
Kevin Brockman, who joined WarnerMedia Entertainment as VP global communications in May 2019, is exiting at the end of the year.
Michelle Slavich, who has been executive VP, global publicity & strategy at Warner Bros. Pictures since May 2018, is joining Netflix as VP of publicity.
Activision Blizzard has named Helaine Klasky, one-time chair of Burson-Marsteller’s US public affairs & crisis communications practice, chief communications officer.
London's Red Lorry Yellow Lorry has scooped up global PR duties for Panavision, which provides end-to-end production equipment and post services for the episodic, commercial and feature film markets.
Monte-Carlo Television Festival has selected Rogers & Cowan/PMK to lead publicity and media relations efforts and offer programming counsel on the American continent for the event’s 60th anniversary.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has demanded that Warner Bros. and the producers of Clint Eastwood’s “Richard Jewell” publicly admit that some events in the film “were imagined for artistic purposes and artistic license.”
ABC Entertainment has named Naomi Bulochnikov-Paul senior VP-communications, succeeding Jori Arancio.
Craig Greiwe has been named chief strategy & transformation officer at Rogers & Cowan/PMK, the agency formed by the merger of Rogers & Cowan and PMK*BNC.
Elissa Greer has been named EVP communications at Solstice Studios, overseeing corporate and domestic publicity and promotions for the company.
Rogers & Cowan and PMK*BNC, the two largest PR agencies in Hollywood, are merging, forming an agency that will have over 500 clients in areas including TV, film, sports, music and fashion.
Emily Lenzner will become executive VP-global communications at the Motion Picture Assn. of America on August. 1.
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