Dina Cappiello, who was national environmental beat reporter for the Associated Press, has joined Edelman's Washington office.
She takes a VP position in the independent PR firm's global energy practice, which has more than 250 staffers.
Cappiello covered green news for the wire service for the past eight years, work that earned the outstanding investigative reporting honor from the Society of Environmental Journalists in 2005.
Amy Hemingway, global energy chair, expects Cappiello's understanding of the energy business and broader environmental issues will help create compelling stories for Edelman's clients.
Prior to the AP, Cappiello covered energy for Environment & Energy Publishing, Congressional Quarterly, Houston Chronicle, and Times Union in Albany.
Edelman chalked up $17M in environmental/PA income in 2014, trailing only APCO Worldwide's $29M income in O'Dwyer's rankings of PR firms.
A focus on all the ways that greenhouse gases are created, not just from fossil fuels, marks the evolution from clean energy and clean tech to climate tech, according to Melissa Mahoney from V2 Communications.
Kristin Wilson-Palmer, who has been a senior VP in Edelman’s Washington, DC office since 2021, joins the Natural Resources Defense Council as chief communications officer.
Educating the next generation to the facts and science surrounding the climate crisis.
Melanie Janin, who was executive VP at Weber Shandwick, has joined Conservation International as chief communications & marketing officer.
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