Rose Gordon

NEW YORK: MWW Group has appointed Rosanne Marks, an agency alum, as SVP of corporate communications in New York where she will lead account teams and provide counsel to executives.

An hour into the Iowa caucuses Tuesday night it was already clear this would be a tight three-way race for the state's preferred Republican nominee as Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, and Ron Paul all fought their way to the top.

It's hard working in comms in the financial services sector. Between Dodd-Frank and #OWS, complications abound.

Consumer communications pros joined Rose Gordon in Chicago for this Edelman-sponsored roundtable to discuss how they ensure teams come up with the big idea that engages and excites stakeholders.

SAN DIEGO: OncoSec Medical, a biotechnology company, hired the Investor Relations Group (IRG) as its PR and IR agency.

Twitter fanatics were all aflutter during the holidays over a case where a company is suing a former employee over his Twitter account, which it says rightfully belongs to it.

PHILADELPHIA: FMC Corp. recently named Kenneth Gedaka its VP of corporate communications, shifting the reporting line for communications at the $3.1 billion chemical company.

MINNEAPOLIS, MN: Sara Thurin Rollin is now director of external communications for Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America where she is tasked with building the financial services company's reputation.

Let's review where the Republican contenders are now that there are less than two weeks to go until the first GOP caucus in Iowa on January 3.

Agencies frequently grouse over the RFP process from unannounced cattle calls to the involvement of pencil-counting procurement trolls.