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Topic Archive: PR
As an amateur admirer of mariachi, I enjoyed CityBeat's feature on the female ensemble Mariachi Reyna de Los Angeles. But I was stopped by the...
Posted May 6, 2008 10:10 PM
Ryan Oliver is leaving the Los Angeles Daily Journal for public relations. He'll work on the Police Protective League and U.S. Army accounts for Weber...
Posted May 5, 2008 02:02 PM
KNBC anchor Ana Garcia, producer Rebecca Nieto, VP/News Director Robert Long and (not shown) web managing Bonnie Buck talk about how the station covers news...
Posted April 22, 2008 01:10 PM
PolitickerCA has a blind item saying that Doug Dowie, the former president of Fleishman-Hillard in L.A. whose conviction on wire fraud is on appeal, is...
Posted April 9, 2008 11:25 PM
I'm told that Times publisher David Hiller did make some news-driven exceptions to last Friday's buyout departure date. L.A. Times Poll director Susan Pinkus and...
Posted April 1, 2008 02:25 PM
Crisis PR executive Michael Sitrick tried to collect a $7.7 million judgment from Ryan Kavanuagh, but a judge Friday said no. The reason is that...
Posted February 23, 2008 10:25 AM
John Stodder, the former Fleishman-Hillard executive whose wire fraud and conspiracy conviction is on appeal, blogs about the pressure of facing Christmas with a prison...
Posted December 31, 2007 06:02 PM
Sure, Allan Mayer is a veteran Hollywood crisis flack with many successes on his resume — but he's not the only one. So what explains...
Posted October 31, 2007 11:54 AM
Remember that episode back in March when Andrés Martinez resigned as editor of the Times editorial pages after the publisher, David Hiller, didn't back...
Posted October 10, 2007 08:02 AM
Jim Bates, the deputy editor on the entertainment-tech desk in the Times' Business section, is jumping into the crisis PR game at Sitrick and Company....
Posted August 9, 2007 04:58 PM
Glenn Bunting took the buyout from the L.A. Times last month and signed on at Sitrick and Company. Guess he makes his old colleagues nervous....
Posted July 19, 2007 01:57 PM
Howard Bragman of Fifteen Minutes Public Relations, co-founder of what used to be Bragman Nyman Cafarelli, talks with the Los Angeles Business Journal's Anne Riley-Katz...
Posted July 15, 2007 05:33 PM
Ross Johnson of Sitrick and Company did such a good job promoting Tuesday night's premiere party for Captivity that he had bloggers falling over themselves...
Posted July 12, 2007 12:44 AM
A panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that former Fleishman-Hillard executives Doug Dowie and John Stodder should remain free on...
Posted June 20, 2007 11:24 PM
In 2002, crisis PR mogul Michael Sitrick and Cardinal Roger Mahony met with Times editors trying to squash an investigation of the archdiocese by then-reporter...
Posted June 11, 2007 12:23 PM
"I am not in prison! At least not yet, not for a few more weeks and hopefully never," John Stodder says in a Dear Friends...
Posted May 4, 2007 08:57 AM
Waiting to hear just when (or if, considering appeals) he goes to federal prison in the Fleishman-Hillard case, Doug Dowie is writing up a storm....
Posted April 4, 2007 11:46 AM
Richard Kline, head of the Los Angeles Fleishman-Hillard PR office who had to clean up the mess from the City Hall billing scandals, is leaving...
Posted February 12, 2007 01:10 PM
Mark Saylor is leaving the entertainment practice at Sitrick & Company to launch his own crisis PR firm, Saylor Company. Saylor, the former entertainment desk...
Posted January 28, 2007 10:54 PM
Former Fleishman-Hillard executives Doug Dowie and John Stodder received a sentencing reprieve until January 30. They were convicted last May of federal charges in the...
Posted January 8, 2007 03:41 PM
The webmaster at PR industry blog Strumpette has posted a fake AP dispatch announcing that the blog's creator, the pseudonymous Amanda Chapel, suffered broken bones...
Posted December 29, 2006 10:59 AM
Lippin had co-managed Brian Wilson and had been a PR rep for, among others, Prince, Eric Clapton and Stephen Stills. The Lippin Group, where she...
Posted December 4, 2006 01:33 PM
Nikki Finke adds some meat to Monday's Allan Mayer-exits-Sitrick stories, saying that Mayer wanted to move from crisis PR into "a more strategic kind of...
Posted October 3, 2006 10:58 PM
Allan Mayer, who developed the entertainment practice for Sitrick and Company after writing a book with the boss, is leaving to start his own firm,...
Posted October 2, 2006 06:50 PM
Back in April 2004, when he was under full attack for the Fleishman-Hillard deal with DWP that began under Dick Riordan, then-Mayor Jim Hahn banned...
Posted July 19, 2006 05:12 PM
Sam Singer, the San Francisco PR attache for Wendy McCaw and the Santa Barbara News-Press, is described as "resigning" — and won't say why —...
Posted July 19, 2006 12:32 PM
The July issue of Los Angeles magazine (not online) has a piece by Kim Masters on Paramount's Brad Grey and by David Ferrell on the...
Posted June 15, 2006 03:11 AM
Convicted editor-turned-Fleishman-Hillard executive Doug Dowie called no defense witnesses in his trial, but he sat down at the Pacific Dining Car for an exclusive interview...
Posted May 30, 2006 03:28 AM
An op-ed piece in Sunday's Daily Breeze chided the city of Hermosa Beach for fighting a drilling project by McPherson Oil Co. The Aesthetic thinks...
Posted April 26, 2006 09:58 AM
♦ Authorities released surveillance tape of suspects in the killing of Deputy Maria Rosa. ♦ Opening statements in Dowie-Stodder trial. ♦ Three ski patrol members...
Posted April 6, 2006 04:56 PM
Three Los Angeles TV stations are fingered in a Center for Media and Democracy report out today critical of news operations that package video releases...
Posted April 6, 2006 11:20 AM
News that Sharon Stone will guest star on the new Showtime series "Huff" as a larcenous "high-powered Los Angeles public relations executive" caused the PR...
Posted March 29, 2006 02:25 AM
Andy Spahn, the head of corporate affairs at DreamWorks and political consigliere to Messrs. Geffen, Spielberg and Katzenberg, is heading out on his own. Well,...
Posted March 24, 2006 02:45 AM
Ray Richmond quit his Hollywood Reporter column in December to jump to E! Entertainment Television as director of corporate and trade publicity. Tomorrow he jumps...
Posted February 20, 2006 05:49 PM
If they are not there already, later today I'll be adding these noteworthy new participants in the L.A. blogosphere. Bill Bradley is the California political...
Posted January 3, 2006 01:52 AM
Myron A. "Ron'' Hartwig, the senior executive in California for Hill & Knowlton, is the new vice president of communications for The J. Paul Getty...
Posted December 6, 2005 05:31 PM
Big development in the high-stakes legal and public-image chess match over allegations of clergy sexual abuse and coverups by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los...
Posted October 12, 2005 02:15 AM
Eric Rose, Senior VP at Weber Shandwick PR, is leaving at the end of the week for a newly created position as Director of Communications...
Posted July 6, 2005 12:09 PM
Burson-Marsteller just announced that Fred Muir, formerly a reporter and editor at the Times, is taking over the Southern California office as "market leader" and...
Posted June 28, 2005 10:51 AM
Former Fleishman-Hillard executives Doug Dowie and John Stodder were in federal court Monday and got an extension on their conspiracy and wire fraud trial. Their...
Posted June 14, 2005 12:22 AM
Today's Daily Journal report on Steve Sugerman, the latest ex-Fleishman-Hillard exec to face charges, says that prosecutors expect Doug Dowie to plead guilty when he...
Posted June 10, 2005 01:58 PM
Now we know who one of the key government witnesses will be against Dowie Dowie and John Stodder, the former Fleishman-Hillard executives charged with fraudulent...
Posted June 9, 2005 02:40 PM
Union leaders have called a noon news conference, presumably to announce that Councilman Martin Ludlow has been named executive secretary of the County Federation of...
Posted June 7, 2005 12:40 AM
The Times identifies Steve Sugerman, a former Fleishman executive and ex-Riordan deputy, as one of the unnamed (and uncharged) co-conspirators. The LAT also says that...
Posted June 2, 2005 11:24 PM
The mayor hopeful has raised almost $1.2 million in two weeks and reports reaching the $1.8 million official fundraising cap for the runoff. The cap...
Posted April 19, 2005 04:00 PM
Remember Fleishman-Hillard? The PR agency's former boss in Los Angeles, Doug Dowie, has filed a wrongful termination lawsuit over losing his $370,000-a-year job in January,...
Posted March 29, 2005 01:46 PM
Daily News City Hall reporter James Nash is jumping to the L.A. Business Journal, where I'm told he will cover the local media. Matt Myerhoff...
Posted February 9, 2005 12:23 PM
In November we told you about Carol Stogsdill, the former Senior Editor and Vice President/News at the Times and later VP at Fleishman-Hillard, taking a...
Posted February 8, 2005 10:14 AM
Robert Parry posted frequent comments at L.A. Observed back when those were part of the mix here. A former reporter and editor, he was an...
Posted February 7, 2005 10:44 PM
Updated through the weekend Lesbian chic: Screenwriter and "L Word" creator Ilene Chaiken is profiled in Sunday's NYT Arts section. "In 1999, after writing a...
Posted February 6, 2005 12:58 PM
Bumble Ward is getting out of the Hollywood publicity wars to write novels because, basically, life is too short to hold the hands of celebrity...
Posted February 2, 2005 11:41 AM
Back in Septemer 2003, Alan Arkatov walked down the hall from the downtown office he rented at Fleishman-Hillard and told his pal and F-H boss...
Posted January 31, 2005 03:08 PM
O'Dwyer's Report, a monthly pub for the PR trade, doesn't think much of all the scrutiny directed at Fleishman-Hillard's controversial activities in Los Angeles. The...
Posted January 28, 2005 04:24 PM
Bumble Ward, who represents Quentin Tarantino, Sofia Coppola, Tim Burton and others, is quitting the business to write novels. Michael Fleming writes in Variety that...
Posted January 27, 2005 11:19 AM
A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted former Fleishman-Hillard senior VP John Stodder on 11 counts of wire fraud. These are felony counts and allege...
Posted January 13, 2005 05:50 PM
Staffers at Fleishman-Hillard offices around California were told this afternoon that Doug Dowie, who had been on paid leave, is "no longer with the firm."...
Posted January 5, 2005 05:13 PM
Posting will be light through New Year's Day. But I will probably add a few notes here during the coming week, with the freshest at...
Posted December 24, 2004 11:18 AM
Mediabistro.com is trying out a new column on how PR people should pitch various media. It's done Q-and-A style, with the questions posed by Laura...
Posted December 22, 2004 12:29 PM
Edited since first posted LAist has found a sure-fire way to get more City Hall readership, at least for the day. The blog has posted...
Posted December 20, 2004 12:35 AM
The Times business section has a new editor on the tech pod. To: The Staff From: Rick Wartzman, Business Editor Aaron Curtiss, Senior Technology Editor...
Posted December 14, 2004 01:26 AM
Forbes calls this story "Flack Attack." The piece by Los Angeles bureau chief Seth Lubove details a legal dispute over $6 million in investments that...
Posted December 10, 2004 11:07 AM
For the second day in a row, the papers run stories about bad reaction to Mayor Hahn's political plays with city commissions. This time it's...
Posted December 9, 2004 10:14 AM
Variety editor Peter Bart turned this month's issue of Vlife (not online) over to guest editor Brett Ratner, director of After the Sunset. Ratner took...
Posted December 6, 2004 01:13 PM
It's been more than 24 hours since the last post involving Fleishman-Hillard—so here goes. Actually, this news comes from the shop of crisis PR hotshot...
Posted November 23, 2004 09:10 PM
These details are from Copley L.A. bureau reporter David Zahniser, whose story in the Daily Breeze looks at Fleishman-Hillard's other contract, not with the DWP...
Posted November 22, 2004 10:23 AM
In Saturday's Times and Daily News, Controller Laura Chick keeps up the heat on Fleishman-Hillard and Mayor Jim Hahn over their mutually beneficial relationship. Chick...
Posted November 20, 2004 12:15 PM
A week after saying he couldn't make it, Mayor Jim Hahn has decided to attend the Dec. 2 League of Women Voters campaign debate after...
Posted November 19, 2004 10:26 AM
Hollywood PR power Pat Kingsley of PMK/HBH fired the president of the New York office, Leslee Dart, in a power struggle over control of the...
Posted November 19, 2004 09:57 AM
Monica Bouldin, who has worked at Warner Bros. and Ruder Finn, takes over day-to-day management of the Los Angeles office of Ogilvy PR. She also...
Posted November 16, 2004 09:11 PM
City Controller Laura Chick said today that her audit found $4.2 million in "unsubstantiated, unsupported, and questionable charges" billed to the city by Fleishman-Hillard for...
Posted November 16, 2004 11:54 AM
Doug Dowie, still on administrative leave from Fleishman-Hillard, filed a legal response Friday that denies the City Attorney's lawsuit allegations that, under Dowie, the PR...
Posted November 13, 2004 11:02 AM
PR Week's Anita Chabria reports today that an audit confirming that Fleishman-Hillard overbilled the city for public relations services will be released this week next...
Posted November 11, 2004 10:04 AM
It was news last year when Mayor Hahn's top communications adviser and campaign manager Matt Middlebrook left the City Hall staff for a VP position...
Posted November 1, 2004 09:55 AM
The Los Angeles Business Journal continues to give bigger play than other media to the various official investigations keeping the denizens of L.A. City Hall...
Posted October 24, 2004 11:26 PM
Hayley Sumner, who has represented the William Morris Agency, screenwriters and actors (among others), has joined the Los Angeles office of Fleishman-Hillard as a senior...
Posted October 6, 2004 08:44 AM
In a story today on the Los Angeles Community Colleges, the Daily News quotes elected trustee Michael Waxman praising the job done for the colleges...
Posted September 29, 2004 10:55 AM
PR Week runs a q-and-a today with Richard Kline, the California president of Fleishman-Hillard. They are a mite touchy these days at F-H, so the...
Posted September 27, 2004 12:23 PM
The Times is out with a 2,800-word Style profile of Doug Dowie, the newsman-turned-PR exec who is the central figure in the ethics questions about...
Posted September 22, 2004 12:56 AM
Remember Steve Webster, the TV publicity exec who imploded his career by eavesdropping on high-level conference calls at FX long after he was fired? He...
Posted September 21, 2004 10:43 AM
City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo's staff has not been a model of stability. In August, his office confirmed that Delgadillo's communications director, Eric Moses, was moving...
Posted September 16, 2004 04:30 PM
I'm about halfway through reading Slick, the funny debut novel by Daniel Price about a deviously creative Los Angeles crisis PR guy — "a shameless...
Posted September 14, 2004 02:37 PM
Jonathan Taylor, recently the L.A. Times' TV and radio editor, is leaving daily journalism to become senior vice president of The Lippin Group. Before joining...
Posted September 14, 2004 01:49 PM
Sunday's Fall Fashion issue of the Times magazine asked stylist Eddie Schachnow to rate the candidates for mayor on their fashion sense. Some excerpts: James...
Posted September 13, 2004 01:10 AM
Dominick Rubalcava is president of the commission that oversees the city Department of Water and Power. In an interview with the L.A. Business Journal's Howard...
Posted August 30, 2004 10:49 AM
Another batch of questionable public relations contracts with a political twist has caught the media's eyes. The Times' Jason Felch reports today that the giant...
Posted August 9, 2004 02:21 AM
New entries added at end • Former LAT publisher David Laventhol is writing the history of Times Mirror for Public Affairs. The company's former chief exec,...
Posted August 6, 2004 11:21 AM
In an email sent to the staff today, embattled PR giant Fleishman-Hillard announced a ban on corprate campaign contributions, set up a hotline for employes...
Posted July 29, 2004 11:38 AM
With no suspense to be had in the big hall, the L.A. mayor's race was the talk of the California delegation at breakfast yesterday morning....
Posted July 27, 2004 04:57 PM
Marc Cooper blogs at the LA Weekly on the most lavish and well-attended party that he (and many in the California delegation) have enjoyed so...
Posted July 27, 2004 10:00 AM
An L.A. Times front pager today on Fleishman-Hillard says the agency prides itself on its skills at crisis management, but was slow to recognize that...
Posted July 26, 2004 09:02 AM
Steve Lopez asks in the Times today what DWP customers got for the $20 million paid to Fleishman-Hillard for PR services (his answer: an 11%...
Posted July 23, 2004 11:54 AM
Last week, a Times editorial called for the head of Frank Salas, the acting general manager of the city Department of Water and Power who...
Posted July 20, 2004 04:58 PM
Fleishman-Hillard has suspended Doug Dowie, the former head of its Los Angeles office and architect of the agency's political practice, while investigating charges from ex-employees...
Posted July 17, 2004 10:43 AM
It's been a while since Fleishman-Hillard has made the news, but above the fold on today's front page, the Times says that the politically connected...
Posted July 15, 2004 10:57 AM
Every so often, the mail brings something that lets L.A. Observed give a glimpse behind the scenes of how things really get done. This installment...
Posted June 17, 2004 12:59 AM
Back in April, Mayor Jim Hahn responded to controversy over city spending on expensive but politically sensitive public relations contracts by promising to get rid...
Posted June 8, 2004 10:16 AM
L.A. Observed has learned that former staffers in the Los Angeles office of Fleishman-Hillard have been getting friendly calls from the St. Louis home office,...
Posted May 24, 2004 01:47 AM
Mayor Jim Hahn's directive to city officials last week to end expensive outside public relations contracts appears to exempt many services, the L.A. Business Journal...
Posted May 2, 2004 09:41 AM
All those competitors who have been taking potshots at Fleishman-Hillard for its city contracts may rue the day. Mayor Hahn today called for all outside...
Posted April 26, 2004 04:52 PM
How seriously do the bosses back at Fleishman-Hillard headquarters take the public relations agency's media hits here in Los Angeles? Pretty seriously, according to a...
Posted April 25, 2004 12:02 PM
Fleishman-Hillard's St. Louis headquarters announced today that the PR giant will withdraw from its three controversial Los Angeles city contracts. The agency has gotten a...
Posted April 20, 2004 01:19 PM
Talk is around City Hall and other PR shops in town that the FBI served subpoenas yesterday on Fleishman-Hillard in connection with the federal grand...
Posted April 8, 2004 03:52 PM
City Controller Laura Chick announced yesterday that she plans to use her audit powers to dig into the $9 million public relations contract between the...
Posted April 2, 2004 05:02 PM
Last month, you might remember, Daily News op-ed columnist Mariel Garza vowed to no longer call Fleishman-Hillard because of the cost to taxpayers when the...
Posted March 19, 2004 01:10 AM
Doug Dowie is out as general manager of the Los Angeles office of public relations giant Fleishman-Hillard. But there are two spins swirling around the...
Posted February 19, 2004 05:14 PM
The headline is from a keeper quote in today's L.A. Daily News destined for a long life in local newsrooms and political circles. The story...
Posted December 6, 2003 01:27 PM
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