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GRV Strategies has inked a one-year $960K pact to provide media, PR and communications strategy services to Qatar’s international media office.
The Alexandria, VA-based firm will highlight the role that the Gulf state plays in international relations and look for opportunities for positive messages through the US media.
The Qataris are crucial mediators in the cease fire negotiations between Hamas and Israel to end the Gaza war. Those discussions are held in Qatar’s capital city of Doha.
Garrett Ventry is founder/president of GRV. He was chief of staff to Colorado Congressman Ken Buck, and a senior advisor to New York Rep. and Republican Conference chair Elise Stefanik.
The New Yorker credited Ventry for helping to direct the strategy to steer Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination. He also handled media relations for Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch’s New York Times best-selling book, "A Republic, If You Can Keep It."
Ventry and Brian Colas, who was a staffer to Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton, launched the Washington Reporter site in June to cover right-of-center news and commentary.
The kick-off issue featured an interview with House Speaker Mike Johnson.
Kuwait has hired Mercury Public Affairs to handle strategic communications in connection with the Oct. 24 dedication of the Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm Memorial in Washington.
Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky has sanctioned his former press secretary Iuliia Mendel for allegedly promoting Russian propaganda.
Gabriel Attal, who heads France’s Renaissance Partie, is relying on Gabriel Laurent Eshaghian, a Woodland Hills, CA-based real estate, aviation and investment executive, to boost his profile in the US ahead of France’s April 2027 elections.
TSG Advocates has inked a $240K one-year pact to provide PA and government relations services to the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency.
KARV is providing strategic communications to the American-Uzbek Business and Investment Council to promote US economic ties with the central Asian country.
