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Reputation Doctor is being paid $10,000 to rep embattled Cohoes, NY mayor Shawn Morse, according to a report in the Albany Times Union. Mike Paul, the founder and president of Reputation Doctor, will serve as the communications director for the Friends of Shawn Morse 2019 Re-Election Campaign. Morse, who announced on Jan. 16 that he is running for re-election, faces domestic abuse allegations going back to the 1990s. He also has been the subject of an FBI probe focusing on his use of political campaign accounts. Calls for Morse to resign have come from both New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan. Paul was present at the announcement of Morse’s bid for re-election, and said that his job was to “make sure that the whole truth and nothing but the truth, the whole story and nothing but the whole story gets out in 2019.”
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Hogarth Worldwide, a WPP company and marketing implementation agency, has established a new operation in Miami focused on the Latin American market. Hogarth Miami will work with clients in both the United States and Latin America. Hogarth’s Miami operation is led by Mauro Baz, who joined the company in 2011, and facilitated the launch of Hogarth in Brazil. He has worked with such clients as Nestle, Mattel, Johnson & Johnson and Unilever.
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International Public Relations Network has added eight member agencies. The firms join the 46 firms that are currently members of the organization, which was formed in 1995. IPRN’s new members are: Crest Communications, from Prague, Czech Republic; Headline, from Santiago, Chile; INC and L45/The Van Group, from Rome and Milano, Italy; Lopito, Ileana & Howie from San Jose, Puerto Rico; Publik Kommunikation based in Stockholm. Sweden; W7 Worldwide based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; and TDUB from Hamburg, Germany.
DJE Holdings, parent of Edelman and Zeno, launches RUTH as an independent shop named after Ruth Edelman, mental health advocate, wife and longtime business partner of Dan Edelman.
New York City PR firms make up the largest slice of O'Dwyer's 147 firm overall ranking with 33 of 40 in the New York/New Jersey area either calling Manhattan their home or having a presence there.
Subject Matter+Kivvit, which joined forces in May, has rebranded as Avoq, an integrated shop with more than 200 professionals in Washington, New York, Asbury Park (NJ), Miami and Chicago.
While PR pros stationed at in-house comms. teams and those working for agencies share many of the same objectives, they also have markedly different top priorities, according to a recent report.
Edelman is cutting 240 employees or about four percent of its workforce to cope with the cooling down of the PR sector, according to a memo from CEO Richard Edelman.
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