
NEW YORK: Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) launched the second year of its Veterans Day PSA campaign with the Ad Council, focusing on a new message and more interaction.

LOS ANGELES: Betawave has hired Stephanie Yang, former communications manager at MySpace, as PR director.

NEW YORK: The Center for Reproductive Rights plans to open a Washington office November 16, led by Laura MacCleery, director of government relations and communications.

PRWeek US Aw, PRWeek got Gawker love on Friday:
Magazine for Flacks Commends the New York Times for Being So Nice to Flacks - New York Times - Gawke
Source: gawker.com
PR Week, a trade journal for and about flacks, has come to the defense of the New York Times after we published a batch of emails showing how deferential some Times reporters were to flacks. Imagine that!

CINCINNATI: Procter & Gamble has launched an online soap opera to promote its Cheer laundry detergent.

CHICAGO: InterCall, a Web conferencing provider, has enlisted Ogilvy PR as its AOR to raise its profile among a range of b-to-b audiences.

More than two dozen M&A; deals have taken place between US PR firms since the beginning of the year, with more than half of those occurring from June on.

PRWeek US
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SOMERSET, NJ: InVentiv Communications said that total revenues fell 8% to $77.6 million in the third quarter of 2009, compared to $84.1 million in 2008...

SAN FRANCISCO: Subaru partnered with the AsianWeek Foundation, and is using a Subaru car to build awareness for the organization's Hep B Free campaign, encouraging Asian-Americans to get tested for Hepatitis B.

ATLANTA: The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is restructuring its communications divisions as part of an agency-wide reorganization to be more effective.

NEW YORK: FoodNetwork.com is using traditional and social media to promote its Thanksgiving recipes and online content for this year - content that is significantly increased from years past.









