MINNEAPOLIS: Padilla Speer Beardsley has hired Bob McNaney as VP of crisis and critical issues.
McNaney will lead the crisis and critical issues team in addition to helping Padilla build its media relations services.
He was previously an investigative reporter for KSTP news in Minneapolis, where he covered events such as the plane crash that killed Sen. Paul Wellstone (D-MN) and the I-35W bridge collapse.
He won an Emmy in 2010 for his report on the unattended transportation of prisoners.