 Heather Wilson |
SKDKnickerbocker has recruited Heather Wilson as managing director in its Los Angeles office. She’ll handle corporate/financial communications, crisis, litigation, PA and media strategy.
The former reporter for CBS MarketWatch had been serving as volunteer communications/media advisor for Project Include, the Silicon Valley-based non-profit the works to improve diversity at start-ups and inclusion at venture capital firms and start-ups.
She took that post following a nine-month run at MWWPR, where she was managing director, national strategic communications and crisis management on the west coast.
Wilson also headed Abernathy MacGregor’s San Franciso office and held the executive VP-corporate affairs post at Weber Shandwick during her eight-year stint.
4media group completes its acquisition of Family Features Editorial Syndicate... Illumination PR, which represents lifestyle brands, influencers and celebrities, launches DR Media Group... EAG Advertising and Marketing acquires pay-for-performance firm INK inc. Public Relations. 
LLYC launches Signs of Pride, a campaign that revives the original protest banners of the first Pride marches... The Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce and Industry forms the Public Relations and Digital Marketing Working Group... Circle of One Marketing, a Miami-based, minority-owned marketing agency, is named official agency of record for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Miami. 
Vogel Group, a DC-headquartered government affairs and consulting firm, forms a strategic partnership with Montreal-based public affairs firm Boléro Stratégies... Matter Communications launches project-based offerings for B2C companies looking to increase brand awareness and visibility... Tucker/Hall, a Tampa-based PR and public affairs firm, opens a new office in Orlando. 
Why investing in public relations is ultimately about building bridges in a connected world.
Edelman is laying off 330 people (5.3 percent of its workforce) to cope with an anticipated eight percent shortfall in 2024 US revenues, and client demand for one-stop shopping for speciality services.
