ALBANY, NY: General Electric has won the support of 60 local governments in a PR battle waged to avoid the Environmental Protection Agency s proposed dollars 460 million bill for cleaning up the Hudson River.
NEW YORK: PR Newswire has unveiled plans to add a feature to its online news releases which will allow readers to give feedback, view additional company information, and buy company products, possibly even stocks and bonds.
NEW YORK: Stanton Crenshaw has beaten out Shandwick as agency of record for Sharp Electronics, the US subsidiary of Japan's Sharp Corp., an account which is said to be worth nearly dollars 1 million. Shandwick held the spot for 16 years.
WASHINGTON: Former White House press secretary Mike McCurry admitted to The Hill last week that his strategy for handling President Clinton s Monica Lewinsky scandal was exactly wrong.
WASHINGTON: Unlikely forces have come together to call attention to the case of Juan Raul Garza, the convicted killer of three who this week stands to become the first man executed by the federal government in 37 years.
NEW YORK: Tony Fox has been promoted to EVP of corporate communications for Comedy Central. Fox, who began working for the cable operation in 1990, formerly held the position of SVP. He was previously employed in sports publicity for HBO and CBS.
SOUTHFIELD, MI: Susan Sherbow has left her position as senior PR officer for Little Caesar Enterprises and joined Caponigro PR as VP. The agency, which has two offices in MI, specializes in crisis communications, branding, media relations and change management.
WASHINGTON: Veteran Shandwick Public Affairs/Powell Tate executive Dale Leibach has announced that he will leave the PR firm (which reverts back to the name Powell Tate in January) to join the office of Sen. Robert Torricelli (D-NJ) as a senior advisor. Leibach was COO and senior vice president at Powell...
LONDON: Reuters, the global news group, has appointed Tom Glocer as its first American group chief executive, effective July 1, 2001. He will replace Peter Job who is retiring.
BOSTON: Brodeur has named EVP Michael Brewer to be its first chief client service provider. SVP Dan Schutt will assume Brewer's duties as US leader for Brodeur's consumer-tech practice. Also, senior consultant Gretchen Dock has been named EVP and will work closely with Brewer.
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