 Karen Hinton |
Hinton was previously acting assistant secretary for public affairs at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development during the Clinton administration, which was then headed by now NY Governor Andrew Cuomo, and was also formerly president of PR firm Hinton Communications, which handled the multi-billion-dollar human rights legal battle against Chevron for its alleged contamination of Ecuador’s Amazon region. Hinton Comms., which had offices in Washington, D.C. and New York, in 2013 merged with Omnicom’s Mercury/Clark & Weinstock operation, where Hinton assumed the title of managing director.
Hinton began her career as a reporter at the Jackson Daily News and was later an aide to Rep. and agriculture secretary Mike Espy (D-MS).
In a statement, Hinton said “no other public relations firm in the country offers the range of progressive issues to promote than Fenton.”
“Social change” agency Fenton, which has conducted advocacy campaign work for MoveOn.org and Greenpeace, holds offices in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. It was acquired last year by holding group Collegium.
The principles of liberty, self-government and individual rights are often discussed as matters of history. Last week in Odesa, Ukraine, I was reminded they are also very much matters of the present. 
How risks and opportunities have evolved for communicators in the second Trump administration.
Too many executives view public affairs as a technical task. They think that if their policy is strong, their facts are correct, and their lawyers are ready, the outcome will naturally follow. That’s a dangerous misconception.
A majority of Americans (52 percent) say president Trump launched the invasion of Iran in part to distract voters from the Jeffrey Epstein sex scandal. Forty percent disagree, according to Drop Site/Zeteo/Data for Progress survey conducted March 6-8.
