The Los Angeles Times is discontinuing publication of its 14 community news sections and eliminating about 125 positions.
Ketchum's Washington D.C. office takes on the Bridgestone/Firestone crisis, becoming the company's third PR agency of record in less than three months.
Shandwick International and client Schering-Plough may come under FDA scrutiny for mounting a grassroots campaign to promote awareness of hepatitis C, given that the primary treatment for the
disease is a drug produced by the pharmaceutical company, TheWashington Post reports.
Maggie Williams, former chief of staff for Hillary Clinton, is named president of D.C.-based Fenton Communications...Val L. Brown, a 20-year veteran of the automotive
industry, joins Burson-Marsteller as a director in the Detroit office, to lead strategic media relations initiatives for the agency's automotive clients... Chris Peacock, former
spokesman for the Health Care Financing Administration and once public affairs director for then-Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentson, joins Cisco Systems as PR manager... Timothy
Schellhardt moves from the Wall Street Journal to Corporate Technology Communications to become principal, editorial services.
