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see k 2 for 12/15 laterChristie C. Ly<div style="text-align: left;">Council for biotechnology information – CBI</div><div style="text-align: left;">Ketchum</div><div style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; text-decoration-line: none;"><a href="mailto:christie.ly@ketchum.com" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; text-decoration-line: none;">christie.ly@ketchum.com</a></div><div style="text-align: left;">C: 917-617-2437</div><hr style="box-sizing: content-box; height: 0px; width: 616px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilycoy" style="font-weight: 700; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; text-decoration-line: none;">Emily Coy</a></div><div style="text-align: left;">Senior Account Executive</div><div style="text-align: left;">Ketchum</div><div style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; text-decoration-line: none;"><a href="mailto:emily.coy@ketchum.com" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; text-decoration-line: none;">emily.coy@ketchum.com</a></div><div style="text-align: left;">W: 415-984-6216</div><hr style="box-sizing: content-box; height: 0px; width: 616px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><div style="text-align: left;">Beth Anne Mumford</div><div style="text-align: left;">Project Manager</div><div style="text-align: left;">CMA</div><div style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; text-decoration-line: none;"><a href="mailto:bethannem@cmabuildstrust.com" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; text-decoration-line: none;">bethannem@cmabuildstrust.com</a></div><div style="text-align: left;">W: 816-556-3137</div><div style="text-align: left;">C: 309-256-0755</div><hr style="box-sizing: content-box; height: 0px; width: 616px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><div style="text-align: left;">Kevin Oates</div><div style="text-align: left;">Vice President, Group Manager</div><div style="text-align: left;">Ketchum</div><div style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; text-decoration-line: none;"><a href="mailto:kevin.oates@ketchum.com" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; text-decoration-line: none;">kevin.oates@ketchum.com</a></div><div style="text-align: left;">W: 310-295-3320</div><div style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; text-decoration-line: none;"><a href="https://twitter.com/kevin_oates" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://twitter.com/kevin_oates" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; text-decoration-line: none;">@Kevin_Oates</a></div><hr style="box-sizing: content-box; height: 0px; width: 616px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><div style="text-align: left;">Bill Mashek</div><div style="text-align: left;">Vice President, Group Manager</div><div style="text-align: left;">Ketchum</div><div style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; text-decoration-line: none;"><a href="mailto:bill.mashek@ketchum.com" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; text-decoration-line: none;">bill.mashek@ketchum.com</a></div><div style="text-align: left;">202-835-9452</div>===bbi spied re dioxin <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/files/legacy/news/feature/2008/04/Dioxin-Ketchum-GP-Report.pdf"> http://www.motherjones.com/files/legacy/news/feature/2008/04/Dioxin-Ketchum-GP-Report.pdf</a>

quite a nice summary, basically report on what strategies activists will use

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</div><div><div>Putin’s lobbyists escape sanctions</div><div>
</div><div>By Kevin Bogardus - 03/23/14 06:00 AM EDT</div><div>
</div><div>Lobbyists working for Russian President Vladimir Putin have thus far escaped the dragnet of sanctions imposed by the United States.</div><div>
</div><div>President Obama has targeted Russian President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle of senior aides and advisers in retaliation for his move to annex Crimea. Those sanctions did not touch Putin’s public relations and lobby machine in Washington, which has raked in millions of dollars in fees for its work representing Russia.</div><div>
</div><div>But if the White House widens its sanctions, the public relations giant Ketchum and the law and lobby firm Alston & Bird might be forced to seek a special Treasury Department license to lobby for Russia — something other firms have had to do when working for rogue governments.</div><div>Bart Fisher, who is a managing partner at his own firm, told The Hill that U.S. sanctions against Russia could expand, dragging the country’s paid advocates into the international crisis.</div><div>
</div><div>“Those big oil and gas companies over there must be concerned that the sanctions will be expanded,” Fisher said. “If I was representing Russia, Gazprom or any of these big state-owned enterprises, I would be very careful that my clients not undertake anything that benefits directly or indirectly any individual who is now a ...</div><div>
</div><div>ecially Designated Nationals, or SDNs, are individuals who have their financial assets targeted by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) for terrorism, drug trafficking or working with sanctioned countries.</div><div>
</div><div>Fisher has an OFAC license to represent the Republic of Sudan in Washington, which the State Department has listed as a state sponsor of terrorism since 1993.</div><div>
</div><div>“I always err on the side of caution and apply for licenses with OFAC,” Fisher said. “As a lawyer, you have an obligation to represent clients who are unpopular, and zealously represent them. I'm not trying to win a popularity contest here.” </div><div>
</div><div>The White House has laid out round after round of sanctions against Russia for its military incursion into Crimea. The sanctions have tried to put pressure on Putin by targeting senior Russian government officials and his allies in the private sector.</div><div>
</div><div>Putin’s lobbyists, however, seem safe for now.</div><div>
</div><div>A Treasury spokesperson wouldn’t comment on specific companies but did say that the Russian government has not been sanctioned, so U.S. individuals and entities are not prohibited from doing business with the country’s government.</div><div>
</div><div>Ketchum has handled public relations for Russia since 2006, earning more than $26 million in fees, according to Justice records. Alston & Bird, through a Ketchum subcontract, also represents Russia.</div><div>
</div><div>In addition, Ketchum, along with Venable through a subcontract, represent Gazprom, the Russian state-owned oil and gas company.</div><div>
</div><div>Treasury has sanctioned Russian billionaires and vast companies, including Gennady Timchenko and Bank Rossiya. Seemingly in anticipation of the looming U.S. sanctions, Timchenko sold his shares in commodity trading firm Gunvor a day before they were announced.</div></div>

Thelian is a Ketchum senior partner and director of its Washington, DC office, which handles the bulk of the firm's "environmental PR work" on behalf of clients including Dow Chemical, the Aspirin Foundation of America, Bristol Myers Squibb, the American Automobile Manufacturers Association, the Consumer Aerosol Products Council, the National Pharmaceutical Council, the North American Insulation Manufacturers Association, and the American Industrial Health Council, another industry-funded group that lobbies against what it considers "excessive" regulation of carcinogens. Ketchum boasts that the D.C. office "has dealt with issues ranging from regulation of toxins, global climate change, electricity deregulation, nuclear energy, product and chemical contamination, and agricultural chemicals and Superfund sites, to name but a few."

<img brain="false" src="http://www.prwatch.org/images/space.gif" alt="" align="bottom" height="1" width="24" />In 1994, for example, Ketchum's DC office worked on behalf of Dow and the Chlorine Chemistry Council to round up scientists who would challenge the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's 1994 report on the health effects of dioxin. Even before the report was released, Ketchum swung into action with a 30-city PR blitz designed to undercut press coverage for the EPA report. "We identified a number of independent scientists and took them on the road" to meet with journalists, academics, political leaders and local health officials, Mark Schannon, an associate director of Ketchum's Washington office, said. "Basically what we're trying to do is assure that industry's voice is heard by people who make policy decisions both here and around the country," Schannon said.

<h3>Published in <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/cmd/prwatch.html">PR Watch</a>, <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/epublish/1/15">Fourth Quarter 1998, Volume 5, No. 4</a></h3>

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<h2>PR Connections</h2>

<img brain="false" src="http://www.prwatch.org/images/space.gif" alt="" align="bottom" height="1" width="24" />The 17-member ACSH board of directors also includes representatives from two PR and advertising firms: Albert Nickel of Lyons Lavey Nickel Swift (their motto: "We change perceptions"), and Lorraine Thelian of Ketchum Communications.

<img brain="false" src="http://www.prwatch.org/images/space.gif" alt="" align="bottom" height="1" width="24" />Thelian is a Ketchum senior partner and director of its Washington, DC office, which handles the bulk of the firm's "environmental PR work" on behalf of clients including Dow Chemical, the Aspirin Foundation of America, Bristol Myers Squibb, the American Automobile Manufacturers Association, the Consumer Aerosol Products Council, the National Pharmaceutical Council, the North American Insulation Manufacturers Association, and the American Industrial Health Council, another industry-funded group that lobbies against what it considers "excessive" regulation of carcinogens. Ketchum boasts that the D.C. office "has dealt with issues ranging from regulation of toxins, global climate change, electricity deregulation, nuclear energy, product and chemical contamination, and agricultural chemicals and Superfund sites, to name but a few."

<img brain="false" src="http://www.prwatch.org/images/space.gif" alt="" align="bottom" height="1" width="24" />In 1994, for example, Ketchum's DC office worked on behalf of Dow and the Chlorine Chemistry Council to round up scientists who would challenge the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's 1994 report on the health effects of dioxin. Even before the report was released, Ketchum swung into action with a 30-city PR blitz designed to undercut press coverage for the EPA report. "We identified a number of independent scientists and took them on the road" to meet with journalists, academics, political leaders and local health officials, Mark Schannon, an associate director of Ketchum's Washington office, said. "Basically what we're trying to do is assure that industry's voice is heard by people who make policy decisions both here and around the country," Schannon said.

<h3>Published in <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/cmd/prwatch.html">PR Watch</a>, <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/epublish/1/15">Fourth Quarter 1998, Volume 5, No. 4</a></h3>

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Lorraine Thelian oversees the work of the North American offices of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ketchum" title="Ketchum">Ketchum</a> and is one of the six members of the company's Worldwide Executive Committee.

For the previous eight years she was a senior partner and director of the Washington, DC office, which handles the bulk of the firm's "environmental PR work" on behalf of clients including Dow Chemical, the Aspirin Foundation of America, Bristol Myers Squibb, the American Automobile Manufacturers Association, the Consumer Aerosol Products Council, the National Pharmaceutical Council, the North American Insulation Manufacturers Association, and the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Industrial_Health_Council" title="American Industrial Health Council">American Industrial Health Council</a>, another industry-funded group that lobbies against what it considers "excessive" regulation of carcinogens.

Ketchum boasts that the D.C. office "has dealt with issues ranging from regulation of toxins, global climate change, electricity deregulation, nuclear energy, product and chemical contamination, and agricultural chemicals and Superfund sites, to name but a few."

Her biographical note states that she has worked on "reputation-building campaigns for numerous companies and trade associations as well as blue chip corporations and policy makers." <a href="http://www.ketchum.com/DisplayWebPage/0,1003,379,00.html" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.ketchum.com/DisplayWebPage/0,1003,379,00.html" rel="nofollow">[1]</a>

"She also has provided strategic counsel and developed educational programs on issues and crisis management. As part of this effort, she frequently has initiated "dialogue" sessions with traditional adversaries, including environmental and healthcare advocacy groups," her biographical note.

She is a director of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Council_on_Science_and_Health" title="American Council on Science and Health">American Council on Science and Health</a> and the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Thurgood_Marshall_Foundation&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Thurgood Marshall Foundation (page does not exist)">Thurgood Marshall Foundation</a>.

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<li><a name="External_links" id="External_links">"</a><a href="http://www.ketchum.com/DisplayWebPage/0,1003,379,00.html" class="external text" title="http://www.ketchum.com/DisplayWebPage/0,1003,379,00.html" rel="nofollow">Biography: Lorraine Thelian</a>", undated, accessed July 2004.</li>

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<h2>Selling the Bush Administration's "No Child Left Behind" policy</h2>

In January 2005, USA Today reported that documents obtained under the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Freedom_of_Information_Act" title="Freedom of Information Act" class="mw-redirect">Freedom of Information Act</a> revealed that under a $240,000 contract Williams would promote the controversial <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=No_Child_Left_Behind" title="No Child Left Behind" class="mw-redirect">No Child Left Behind</a> legislation of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bush_regime" title="Bush regime">Bush administration</a>. According to USA Today, Williams was hired to "to promote the law on his nationally syndicated television show and to urge other black journalists to do the same." <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-01-06-williams-whitehouse_x.htm" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-01-06-williams-whitehouse_x.htm" rel="nofollow">[3]</a>

As part of the agreement, Williams was required "to regularly comment on NCLB during the course of his broadcasts," and to interview Education Secretary <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rod_Paige" title="Rod Paige">Rod Paige</a> for TV and radio spots that aired during the show in 2004."<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-01-06-williams-whitehouse_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-01-06-williams-whitehouse_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA" rel="nofollow">[4]</a>

The contract with Williams was part of a $1 million contract between the U.S. Department of Education and the public relations company, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ketchum" title="Ketchum">Ketchum</a>. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/images/f/fb/WilliamsContract.pdf" class="external text" title="http://www.sourcewatch.org/images/f/fb/WilliamsContract.pdf" rel="nofollow">Download Ketchum's request for increased funding for their "Minority Outreach Campaign," featuring Williams (132kb PDF file).</a>

Melanie Sloan from <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Citizens_for_Responsibility_and_Ethics_in_Washington" title="Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington">Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington</a> told USA Today that the contract may be illegal "because Congress has prohibited <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Propaganda" title="Propaganda">propaganda</a>," or any sort of lobbying for programs funded by the government. "And it's propaganda," she said.

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<h3>Ketchum</h3>

Ketchum did not respond to requests for a comment from <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=PR_Week&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="PR Week (page does not exist)">PR Week</a>, the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Washington_Post" title="Washington Post">Washington Post</a>, the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=New_York_Times" title="New York Times">New York Times</a> or <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=O%27Dwyer%27s_PR_Daily&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="O'Dwyer's PR Daily (page does not exist)">O'Dwyer's PR Daily</a> regarding Williams' role as a paid commentator.<a href="http://www.prweek.com/news/news_story.cfm?ID=231851&site=3&setcookie=1" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.prweek.com/news/news_story.cfm?ID=231851&site=3&setcookie=1" rel="nofollow">[8]</a><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56330-2005Jan7.html" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56330-2005Jan7.html" rel="nofollow">[9]</a><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/12/business/media/12adco.html?oref=login" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/12/business/media/12adco.html?oref=login" rel="nofollow">[10]</a><a href="http://www.odwyerspr.com/members/0112edel_kotch.htm" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.odwyerspr.com/members/0112edel_kotch.htm" rel="nofollow">[11]</a>

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<h3>FOIAs</h3>

Following the revelations of the Williams contract with Ketchum, the watchdog group <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Citizens_for_Responsibility_and_Ethics_in_Washington" title="Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington">Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington</a> announced that it has filed Freedom of Information requests with 22 agencies requesting copies of all contracts with public relation firms.<a href="http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=41504" class="external autonumber" title="http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=41504" rel="nofollow">[15]</a>

<h3>PR Industry</h3>

The USA Today revelations caused controversy within the PR industry too. The day the story broke, the CEO of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Edelman" title="Edelman" class="mw-redirect">Edelman</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Richard_Edelman" title="Richard Edelman">Richard Edelman</a> posted a note on his personal blog criticising Ketchum's deal with Williams. "This kind of pay for play public relations takes us back in time to the days of the press agent who would drop off the new record album and $10 to the deejay. It makes our industry's efforts to 'clean up' behavior in newly created PR markets such as China and Russia look decidedly ridiculous," he wrote.<a href="http://www.edelman.com/speak_up/blog/" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.edelman.com/speak_up/blog/" rel="nofollow">[16]</a>

"I know Ray Kotcher and Dave Drobis of Ketchum. I am sure that they would never tolerate this kind of contractual arrangement. I am also confident that they will take steps to assure that it never happens again," he wrote. While Richard Edelman was confident Ketchum's management would take a stand against the practice, O'Dwyers PR Daily noted that "Kotcher has not returned this website's phone and e-mail requests for comment."<a href="http://www.odwyerspr.com/members/0112edel_kotch.htm" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.odwyerspr.com/members/0112edel_kotch.htm" rel="nofollow">[17]</a>

"Some things are black and white. We need to set a very high standard of disclosure for our business, with total transparency on funding sources and mission. We should also eschew any practice that calls into question the integrity of the information being disseminated. Let's try to turn this negative for our industry into a positive, by making a long term commitment to the best ethical behavior," Edelman wrote.

While the White House equivocated, the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Public_Relations_Society_of_America" title="Public Relations Society of America">Public Relations Society of America</a> issued a statement saying "the relationship should have been disclosed up front, no question."<a href="http://www.prsa.org/News/leaders/disclosure0111.asp" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.prsa.org/News/leaders/disclosure0111.asp" rel="nofollow">[18]</a>

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The American Industrial Health Council (AIHC) was an industry-funded group that lobbies against "excessive" regulation of carcinogens. (AIHC no longer appears in the Washington D.C. phone book).

AIGNC describes itself as "a broad-based industry trade association whose mission is to promote the sound use of scientific principles and procedures in public policy for the assessment and regulation of risks associated with human health effects and ecological effects. AIHC membership includes the manufacturers of consumer products, pharmaceuticals, petroleum, paper, chemicals, motor vehicles, foods, high technology and aerospace products. AIHC does not act as an advocate for any product or chemical."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Industrial_Health_Council#cite_note-0" title="">[1]</a>

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American Industrial Health Council

2001 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W. Suite 760

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Phone: 202-833-2131

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<li id="cite_note-0"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Industrial_Health_Council#cite_ref-0" title="">↑</a> George P. Daston, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20040828044216/http://www.epa.gov/chemrtk/vccep/attachp.htm" class="external text" title="http://web.archive.org/web/20040828044216/http://www.epa.gov/chemrtk/vccep/attachp.htm" rel="nofollow">"Comments on a Children's Health Effects Testing Program"</a>, Environment Protection Agency, Attachment P: Statement by George Daston, undated but first indexed on the web in November 2002. The appendix notes that Gaston is from <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Procter_%26_Gamble" title="Procter & Gamble">Procter & Gamble</a>.</li>

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<li>George P. Daston, Ph.D., '<a href="http://www.epa.gov/chemrtk/vccep/attachp.htm" class="external text" title="http://www.epa.gov/chemrtk/vccep/attachp.htm" rel="nofollow">Comments on a Children's Health Effects Testing Program on behalf of the American Industrial Health Council</a>", page dated September 6th, 2002.</li>

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Ketchum is one of the largest public relations agencies employing over 1100 people across 21 offices and with 35 affiliates around the world. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ketchum#cite_note-0" title="">[1]</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ketchum#cite_note-1" title="">[2]</a>

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<h2>History</h2>

In 1923 <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=George_Ketchum&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="George Ketchum (page does not exist)">George Ketchum</a> and his brother <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Carlton_G._Ketchum" title="Carlton G. Ketchum">Carlton G. Ketchum</a> formed Ketchum Communications as a Pittsburgh-based advertising company which later evolved to include a public relations practice.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ketchum#cite_note-2" title="">[3]</a>

In 1996 it became a subsidiary of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Omnicom_Group" title="Omnicom Group">Omnicom Group</a> with its work consolidated into five practice areas Brand Marketing, Corporate, Food & Nutrition, Healthcare and Technology.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ketchum#cite_note-3" title="">[4]</a>

In 1991 a leaked memo from Ketchum, hired by the Clorox Corporation to develop a crisis management plan, detailed proposed responses to a number of hypothetical scenarios, including a peaceful protest by Greenpeace at a Clorox factory. Among the recommended tactics was the launch of a "Stop Environmental Terrorism" public relations campaign.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ketchum#cite_note-4" title="">[5]</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ketchum#cite_note-5" title="">[6]</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ketchum#cite_note-6" title="">[7]</a>

<h2>Ketchum and the Armstrong Williams scandal</h2>

In 2003, the U.S. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Department_of_Education" title="Department of Education" class="mw-redirect">Department of Education</a> signed a $700,000 contract with Ketchum to do "rankings of newspaper coverage of the No Child Left Behind law" and to produce a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Video_news_releases" title="Video news releases">video news release</a> (VNR) touting the law, which featured Education Secretary <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rod_Paige" title="Rod Paige">Rod Paige</a> and promoted a tutoring program offered under the new law. The VNR, narrated by faux reporter <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Karen_Ryan" title="Karen Ryan">Karen Ryan</a> (actually a PR pro), generated controversy since it "comes across as a news story but fails to make clear the reporter involved was paid with taxpayer money." A similar VNR promoting the Bush Medicare law was found by the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Government_Accountability_Office" title="Government Accountability Office" class="mw-redirect">Government Accountability Office</a> to be <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Covert_propaganda" title="Covert propaganda">covert propaganda</a> in violation of federal law. <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/politics/advertising/articles/2004/10/11/bush_ad_appears_to_be_news_story/" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.boston.com/news/politics/advertising/articles/2004/10/11/bush_ad_appears_to_be_news_story/" rel="nofollow">[1]</a>

<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Image:KetchumEducation.pdf" class="external text" title="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Image:KetchumEducation.pdf" rel="nofollow">Download Ketchum's contract with the U.S. Department of Education, to promote the No Child Left Behind Act</a> (1.6 MB PDF file).

<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/images/f/fb/WilliamsContract.pdf" class="external text" title="http://www.sourcewatch.org/images/f/fb/WilliamsContract.pdf" rel="nofollow">Download Ketchum's request for increased funding for their "Minority Outreach Campaign," featuring Armstrong Williams</a> (132 kb PDF file).

<a href="http://interactive.pfaw.org/ketchum/" class="external text" title="http://interactive.pfaw.org/ketchum/" rel="nofollow">Documents obtained on Ketchum contracts</a> with the U.S. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Department_of_Education" title="Department of Education" class="mw-redirect">Department of Education</a> through a FOIA request from the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=People_for_the_American_Way" title="People for the American Way">People for the American Way</a> are available for download <a href="http://interactive.pfaw.org/ketchum/" class="external text" title="http://interactive.pfaw.org/ketchum/" rel="nofollow">here</a>.

<h2>Ketchum Down Under</h2>

In text submitted for its listing in the February 1994 edition of O'Dwyer's PR Services Report, Ketchum boasted of its <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Crisis_management" title="Crisis management">crisis management</a> prowess in defeating a campaign by an unnamed Australian environmental group over a "toxic contamination" site. "When an environmental group launched an attack on an Australian pesticide manufacturer, the government shut the plant down amid fears of widespread pollution. KPR helped organize a response that led to the plant's reopening within a deadline set by the company. As a result, the environmental group received significant criticism for distorting the facts and alarming the public." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ketchum#cite_note-7" title="">[8]</a>

<h2>U.S. Government PR Contracts</h2>

According to the U.S. House Committee on Government Reform Minority Office, Ketchum received the following amounts per year, for federal PR contracts: <a href="http://www.democrats.reform.house.gov/investigations.asp?Issue=Covert+Propaganda" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.democrats.reform.house.gov/investigations.asp?Issue=Covert+Propaganda" rel="nofollow">[2]</a>

<ul>

</ul>

The firm's website and the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Public_Relations_Society_of_America" title="Public Relations Society of America">Public Relations Society of America</a>'s database of Silver Anvil Award Winners indicate that Ketchum has worked for the following federal agencies, in addition to its Education Department work:

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Internal_Revenue_Service" title="Internal Revenue Service">Internal Revenue Service</a>, to promote “Ten Minute Taxes” with Telefile;</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Department_of_Health_and_Human_Services" title="Department of Health and Human Services">Department of Health and Human Services</a>, to “change the face of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Medicare" title="Medicare">Medicare</a>,” promote long-term health care planning, encourage preventative care, and raise awareness of home health care information; and</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=U.S._Army" title="U.S. Army">U.S. Army</a>, to “reconnect the Army with the American people” and boost recruiting around its 225th birthday, in 2001.</li>

</ul>

In May 2005, a PR Week story on the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Centers_for_Medicare_and_Medicaid_Services" title="Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services">Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services</a> request for proposals on its outreach work over the next five years reported that, "Under the last umbrella contract ... Ketchum led a $25 million integrated marketing campaign to drive people to the Medicare (800) number and website." <a href="http://prweek.com/news/news_story.cfm?ID=238286&site=3" class="external autonumber" title="http://prweek.com/news/news_story.cfm?ID=238286&site=3" rel="nofollow">[3]</a>

Despite the controversy over the Armstrong Williams contract, Ketchum won a a $25 million contract, including $2 million in fees, to manage the advertising campaign as part of a $300 million, three-year U.S. government effort encouraging seniors to sign up for the new Medicare prescription drug program.

Ketchum "produced a controversial series of prepackaged news stories," or video news releases (VNRs), for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). VNRs that Ketchum produced for the Department of Education were also recently found to be "covert propaganda."

The Washington Post reported, "HHS officials say Ketchum got the new work because it already had a multiyear contract to provide public relations services for the department. The firm promised the new ads will not cross the legal line." HHS's Kathleen Harrington said that seniors trust Medicare information more when it comes from the government, so "it's in the interest of our success ... to label everything appropriately." <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/09/AR2005100900959.html" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/09/AR2005100900959.html" rel="nofollow">[4]</a>

<h2>Clients</h2>

Ketchum's client list (most listings from O'Dwyers PR Daily) includes:

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Absolut&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Absolut (page does not exist)">Absolut</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alberto_Culver&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Alberto Culver (page does not exist)">Alberto Culver</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Almond_Board_of_California&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Almond Board of California (page does not exist)">Almond Board of California</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Iron_%26_Steel_Institute&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="American Iron & Steel Institute (page does not exist)">American Iron & Steel Institute</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Red_Cross" title="American Red Cross">American Red Cross</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=AstraZeneca" title="AstraZeneca">AstraZeneca</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Aventis" title="Aventis" class="mw-redirect">Aventis</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bank_One/First_USA&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bank One/First USA (page does not exist)">Bank One/First USA</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Biogen" title="Biogen" class="mw-redirect">Biogen</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Biopure&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Biopure (page does not exist)">Biopure</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bristol-Myers_Squibb" title="Bristol-Myers Squibb">Bristol-Myers Squibb</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=British_Tourism_Authority&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="British Tourism Authority (page does not exist)">British Tourism Authority</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Britvic&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Britvic (page does not exist)">Britvic</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=CMA_German_Agricultural_Industries&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="CMA German Agricultural Industries (page does not exist)">CMA German Agricultural Industries</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=California_Dried_Plum_Board&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="California Dried Plum Board (page does not exist)">California Dried Plum Board</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cardinal_Health" title="Cardinal Health">Cardinal Health</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=CareFirst_Blue_Cross_Blue_Shield&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield (page does not exist)">CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Centers_for_Medicare_and_Medicaid_Services" title="Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services">Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cingular_Wireless&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cingular Wireless (page does not exist)">Cingular Wireless</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Combe_Inc.&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Combe Inc. (page does not exist)">Combe Inc.</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=ConAgra" title="ConAgra">ConAgra</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Delta" title="Delta" class="mw-redirect">Delta</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Dixie_International_Brands&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dixie International Brands (page does not exist)">Dixie International Brands</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Dow_Chemical_Company" title="Dow Chemical Company">Dow Chemical Company</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Duckling_Council&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Duckling Council (page does not exist)">Duckling Council</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Dulux&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dulux (page does not exist)">Dulux</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Elan_Pharmaceutical&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Elan Pharmaceutical (page does not exist)">Elan Pharmaceutical</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Equifax&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Equifax (page does not exist)">Equifax</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Estee_Lauder" title="Estee Lauder">Estee Lauder</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Federated_Dept._Stores&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Federated Dept. Stores (page does not exist)">Federated Dept. Stores</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=FedEx" title="FedEx">FedEx</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fireman%27s_Fund&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Fireman's Fund (page does not exist)">Fireman's Fund</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Florida_State_Board_of_Administration&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Florida State Board of Administration (page does not exist)">Florida State Board of Administration</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Frito-Lay&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Frito-Lay (page does not exist)">Frito-Lay</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Genentech" title="Genentech">Genentech</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gillette&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gillette (page does not exist)">Gillette</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Hampton_Inn&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hampton Inn (page does not exist)">Hampton Inn</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=HUGO&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="HUGO (page does not exist)">HUGO</a> (Human Genome Organization)</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Hyundai_Motor_America&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hyundai Motor America (page does not exist)">Hyundai Motor America</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Immunex&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Immunex (page does not exist)">Immunex</a></li>

<li>International Carwash Assn.</li>

<li>International Truck & Engine (Navistar)</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Invista" title="Invista">Invista</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Johnson_%26_Johnson" title="Johnson & Johnson">Johnson & Johnson</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=KFC" title="KFC" class="mw-redirect">KFC</a> - contract awarded in 2008, "to strengthen its reputation in the U.K. and Ireland," using the firm's "experts in reputation management, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=CSR" title="CSR" class="mw-redirect">CSR</a>, brand communications, public affairs and employee engagement." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ketchum#cite_note-8" title="">[9]</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kikkoman_International&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kikkoman International (page does not exist)">Kikkoman International</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kimberly-Clark" title="Kimberly-Clark">Kimberly-Clark</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kodak" title="Kodak" class="mw-redirect">Kodak</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Levi_Strauss_%26_Co." title="Levi Strauss & Co." class="mw-redirect">Levi Strauss & Co.</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Liberty_Alliance&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Liberty Alliance (page does not exist)">Liberty Alliance</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lions_Club_International&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lions Club International (page does not exist)">Lions Club International</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Master_Foods&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Master Foods (page does not exist)">Master Foods</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mattel&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mattel (page does not exist)">Mattel</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Medtronic" title="Medtronic">Medtronic</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Merck" title="Merck">Merck</a></li>

<li>Merial</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Montefiore_Medical_Center&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Montefiore Medical Center (page does not exist)">Montefiore Medical Center</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Cattlemen%27s_Beef_Association" title="National Cattlemen's Beef Association">National Cattlemen's Beef Association</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=New_York_Stock_Exchange" title="New York Stock Exchange">New York Stock Exchange</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Newport_News&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Newport News (page does not exist)">Newport News</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Nokia" title="Nokia">Nokia</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Novartis" title="Novartis">Novartis</a></li>

<li>OrthoMcNeil Pharmaceuticals</li>

<li>Pabst Blue Ribbon</li>

<li>Panamanian Tourist Board</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=PeopleSoft&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="PeopleSoft (page does not exist)">PeopleSoft</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pitney_Bowes&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pitney Bowes (page does not exist)">Pitney Bowes</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Potato_Board&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Potato Board (page does not exist)">Potato Board</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Procter_%26_Gamble" title="Procter & Gamble">Procter & Gamble</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Quaker_Oats&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Quaker Oats (page does not exist)">Quaker Oats</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Roche" title="Roche">Roche</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Schwinn&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Schwinn (page does not exist)">Schwinn</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=ServiceMaster&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="ServiceMaster (page does not exist)">ServiceMaster</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Siemens" title="Siemens" class="mw-redirect">Siemens</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Solvay" title="Solvay">Solvay</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Starbucks" title="Starbucks">Starbucks</a></li>

<li>State of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=South_Carolina" title="South Carolina" class="mw-redirect">South Carolina</a></li>

<li>The Clorox Co.</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=The_Home_Depot&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Home Depot (page does not exist)">The Home Depot</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=The_Walt_Disney_Company" title="The Walt Disney Company" class="mw-redirect">The Walt Disney Company</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tropicana&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tropicana (page does not exist)">Tropicana</a></li>

<li>U.S. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Department_of_Education" title="Department of Education" class="mw-redirect">Department of Education</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=U.S.Dept.of_Health_%26_Human_Services&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services (page does not exist)">U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=USFRA" title="USFRA" class="mw-redirect">U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Alliance</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=UCB_Pharma&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="UCB Pharma (page does not exist)">UCB Pharma</a></li>

<li>Universal Health Services</li>

<li>Warner Home Video</li>

<li>Water Pik Technologies Inc.</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Wendy%27s_International&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wendy's International (page does not exist)">Wendy's International</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Wyeth" title="Wyeth" class="mw-redirect">Wyeth</a></li>

<li>Yahoo! en espanol</li>

<li>Zapf Creation <a href="http://www.odwyerpr.com/members/pr_firms_database/prdk07.htm" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.odwyerpr.com/members/pr_firms_database/prdk07.htm" rel="nofollow">[5]</a></li>

</ul>

<h2>Personnel</h2>

<h3>Senior executives</h3>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_R._Drobis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="David R. Drobis (page does not exist)">David R. Drobis</a> Chairman Emeritus</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Raymond_L._Kotcher" title="Raymond L. Kotcher">Raymond L. Kotcher</a>, Senior Partner/CEO</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rob_Flaherty&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rob Flaherty (page does not exist)">Rob Flaherty</a> Senior Partner/Global Practices Managing Director/New York</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Daniel_R._Madia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Daniel R. Madia (page does not exist)">Daniel R. Madia</a> Senior Partner/Global Chief Administrative Officer</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jerry_Olszewski&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jerry Olszewski (page does not exist)">Jerry Olszewski</a> Senior Partner/International</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lorraine_Thelian" title="Lorraine Thelian">Lorraine Thelian</a> Senior Partner/North America</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Dale_Bornstein&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dale Bornstein (page does not exist)">Dale Bornstein</a> Partner/Director New York</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_Catlett&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="David Catlett (page does not exist)">David Catlett</a> Partner/Director Global Healthcare</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Barri_Rafferty&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Barri Rafferty (page does not exist)">Barri Rafferty</a> Partner/Director Atlanta</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rob_Lorfink&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rob Lorfink (page does not exist)">Rob Lorfink</a> Chief Financial Officer</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Chris_Atkins&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Chris Atkins (page does not exist)">Chris Atkins</a> Partner/Director of global corporate practice;</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kim_Sample&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kim Sample (page does not exist)">Kim Sample</a> Partner Associate Director</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Scott_Proper&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Scott Proper (page does not exist)">Scott Proper</a> Associate Director</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gary_Stromberg&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gary Stromberg (page does not exist)">Gary Stromberg</a> principal, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Stromberg_Consulting&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Stromberg Consulting (page does not exist)">Stromberg Consulting</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Charlotte_Forbes&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Charlotte Forbes (page does not exist)">Charlotte Forbes</a> principal, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Stromberg_Consulting&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Stromberg Consulting (page does not exist)">Stromberg Consulting</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mindy_Rubinstein&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mindy Rubinstein (page does not exist)">Mindy Rubinstein</a> Partner Director of Corporate Communications and Business development</li>

</ul>

<h2>Other staff</h2>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul_Baverstock" title="Paul Baverstock">Paul Baverstock</a> head of UK corporate practice</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jennefer_Witter" title="Jennefer Witter">Jennefer Witter</a> - former vice president</li>

</ul>

<h2>Contact information</h2>

711 Third Avenue

New York, NY 10017

Phone: 646/935-3900

Fax: 646/935-4499

Web: <a href="http://www.ketchum.com" class="external free" title="http://www.ketchum.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.ketchum.com</a>

<h2>Articles and resources</h2>

<h3>Related SourceWatch articles</h3>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ketchum_tackles_corporate_responsibility" title="Ketchum tackles corporate responsibility">Ketchum tackles corporate responsibility</a></li>

</ul>

<h3>References</h3>

<li id="cite_note-0"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ketchum#cite_ref-0" title="">↑</a> Ketchum Public Relations <a href="http://www.ketchum.com/facts" class="external text" title="http://www.ketchum.com/facts" rel="nofollow">Quick Facts About Ketchum</a>, corporate website, accessed November 30, 2011</li>

<li id="cite_note-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ketchum#cite_ref-1" title="">↑</a> Ketchum, Inc. <a href="http://www.ketchum.com/DisplayWebPage/0,1003,296,00.html" class="external text" title="http://www.ketchum.com/DisplayWebPage/0,1003,296,00.html" rel="nofollow">Corporate homepage</a>, organizational website, accessed November 30, 2011</li>

<li id="cite_note-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ketchum#cite_ref-2" title="">↑</a> Ketchum, Inc. <a href="http://www.ketchum.com/george_elephant" class="external text" title="http://www.ketchum.com/george_elephant" rel="nofollow">Meet George Ketchum</a>, corporate website, accessed November 30, 2011</li>

<li id="cite_note-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ketchum#cite_ref-3" title="">↑</a> Stuart Elliott <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/11/business/the-media-business-advertising-omnicom-agrees-to-buy-ketchum-communications.html?src=pm" class="external text" title="http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/11/business/the-media-business-advertising-omnicom-agrees-to-buy-ketchum-communications.html?src=pm" rel="nofollow">THE MEDIA BUSINESS: Advertising;Omnicom Agrees to Buy Ketchum Communications</a>, New York Times, January 11, 1996</li>

<li id="cite_note-4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ketchum#cite_ref-4" title="">↑</a> Jonathan Nack <a href="http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/1991/26/26p24.htm" class="external text" title="http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/1991/26/26p24.htm" rel="nofollow">Chlorine company targets Greenpeace</a>, published article, Green Left Weekly, September 4, 1991</li>

<li id="cite_note-5"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ketchum#cite_ref-5" title="">↑</a> Sheldon Rampton <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/2001Q4/terror.html" class="external text" title="http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/2001Q4/terror.html" rel="nofollow">Terrorism as Pretext</a>, PRWatch.org, Fourth Quarter 2001, Volume 8, No. 4</li>

<li id="cite_note-6"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ketchum#cite_ref-6" title="">↑</a> Ketchum Communications <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/images/0/06/Ketchum.pdf" class="external text" title="http://www.sourcewatch.org/images/0/06/Ketchum.pdf" rel="nofollow">Crisis Scenario #2</a>, facsimile/internal notes, estimated date 1991, Downloaded pdf extract from Ketchum's plan for Clorox, accessed November 30, 2011</li>

<li id="cite_note-7"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ketchum#cite_ref-7" title="">↑</a> "<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/images/3/3a/Ketchum_in_Australia.pdf" class="external text" title="http://www.sourcewatch.org/images/3/3a/Ketchum_in_Australia.pdf" rel="nofollow">Ketchum PR</a>", O'Dwyer's PR Services Report, February 1994. (pdf)</li>

<li id="cite_note-8"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ketchum#cite_ref-8" title="">↑</a> "Ketchum to Represent KFC in U.K. and Ireland," The Holmes Report (sub req'd), October 12, 2008.</li>

</ol>

<h3>External resources</h3>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/images/e/e4/Clorox.pdf" class="external text" title="http://www.sourcewatch.org/images/e/e4/Clorox.pdf" rel="nofollow">Copy of Kethcum's Leaked Draft Clorox Crisis Management Plan</a> (4.6MB Pdf file)</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/images/a/a9/CloroxGP.pdf" class="external text" title="http://www.sourcewatch.org/images/a/a9/CloroxGP.pdf" rel="nofollow">Greenpeace USA Media Release on Copy of Kethcum's Leaked Draft Clorox Crisis Management Plan</a></li>

</ul>

<h3>External articles</h3>

<ul>

<li>Jonathan Nack, "<a href="http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/1991/26/26p24.htm" class="external text" title="http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/1991/26/26p24.htm" rel="nofollow">Chlorine company targets Greenpeace</a>", Green Left Weekly, 1991. (Originally published in the Guardian (US).</li>

<li>"<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/1996Q2/activist.html" class="external text" title="http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/1996Q2/activist.html" rel="nofollow">The Chlorine Industry's Secrets Exposed! #2</a>, PR Watch, Volume 3, No. 2, 2nd Quarter 1996.</li>

<li>"<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/1998Q4/koop.html" class="external text" title="http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/1998Q4/koop.html" rel="nofollow">Flying the Koop: A Surgeon General's Reputation On the Line</a>", PR Watch, Volume 5, No. 4, 4th Quarter 1998.</li>

<li>Sheldon Rampton, "<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/2001Q4/terror.html" class="external text" title="http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/2001Q4/terror.html" rel="nofollow">Terrorism as Pretext</a>", PR Watch, Fourth Quarter 2001, Volume 8, No. 4.</li>

<li>Sheldon Rampton, "<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/2002Q3/ketchum.html" class="external text" title="http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/2002Q3/ketchum.html" rel="nofollow">Ketchum (the UN's PR Firm) Tackles Corporate Responsibility</a>", PR Watch, Volume 9, No. 3, 3rd quarter 2002.</li>

<li>Sheldon Rampton, "<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/2002Q3/csr.html" class="external text" title="http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/2002Q3/csr.html" rel="nofollow">Corporate Social Responsibility and the Crisis of Globalization</a>", PR Watch, Volume 9, No. 3, 3rd quarter 2002.</li>

<li>Ravi Chandiramani, "<a href="http://www.prweek.com/news/news_story.cfm?ID=202992&site=1" class="external text" title="http://www.prweek.com/news/news_story.cfm?ID=202992&site=1" rel="nofollow">Ketchum appoints director for its UK corporate practice</a>", PR Week, February 23, 2004.</li>

<li>Ketchum, <a href="http://www.ketchum.com/DisplayWebPage/0,1003,296,00.html" class="external text" title="http://www.ketchum.com/DisplayWebPage/0,1003,296,00.html" rel="nofollow">The Building of a Top Ten Global Public Relations Agency</a>, undated, accessed July 2004.</li>

<li>Douglas Quenqua, "<a href="http://www.prweek.com/news/news_worldwire.cfm?ID=222487&site=3" class="external text" title="http://www.prweek.com/news/news_worldwire.cfm?ID=222487&site=3" rel="nofollow">Ketchum faces inquiry of contract with Puerto Rico</a>", PR Week, September 20, 2004.</li>

<li>Ben Feller, "<a href="http://www.boston.com/news/politics/advertising/articles/2004/10/11/bush_ad_appears_to_be_news_story/" class="external text" title="http://www.boston.com/news/politics/advertising/articles/2004/10/11/bush_ad_appears_to_be_news_story/" rel="nofollow">Bush ad appears to be news story</a>," Associated Press, October 11, 2004.</li>

<li>Fraser P. Seitel, "<a href="http://www.odwyerpr.com/members/archived_stories_2005/january/0124comm_ketchcalam.htm" class="external text" title="http://www.odwyerpr.com/members/archived_stories_2005/january/0124comm_ketchcalam.htm" rel="nofollow">Ketchum Calamity Post Mortem</a>", O'Dwyers PR Daily (sub. req'd.), January 24, 2005.</li>

<li>Jack O'Dwyer, "<a href="http://www.odwyerpr.com/members/jack_odwyers_nl/0126.htm" class="external text" title="http://www.odwyerpr.com/members/jack_odwyers_nl/0126.htm" rel="nofollow">PR Opinion</a>", Jack O'Dwyers Newsletter (sub. req'd.), Internet Edition, January 26, 2005.</li>

<li>Erica Iacono, "<a href="http://www.prweek.com/news/news_worldwire.cfm?ID=234067&site=3&setcookie=1" class="external text" title="http://www.prweek.com/news/news_worldwire.cfm?ID=234067&site=3&setcookie=1" rel="nofollow">Spellings halts Ketchum work as Council polishes industry image</a>", PR Week, February 07 2005. (Sub req'd).</li>

<li>"<a href="http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/oig/a19f0007.html" class="external text" title="http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/oig/a19f0007.html" rel="nofollow">Review of Formation Issues Regarding the Department of Education's Fiscal Year 2003 Contract with Ketchum, Inc. for Media Relations Services</a>", Department of Education, April 15, 2005.</li>

<li>"<a href="http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000883958" class="external text" title="http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000883958" rel="nofollow">White House Is Impeding Armstrong Williams Probe, Dem. Lawmaker Says</a>", Editor & Publisher, April 15, 2005.</li>

<li>Brian Faler, "<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57561-2005Apr15.html" class="external text" title="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57561-2005Apr15.html" rel="nofollow">Hiring of Commentator Is Called Poor Judgment: Report: Education Dept. Broke No Law</a>", Washington Post, April 16, 2005.</li>

<li>Anne E. Kornblut, "<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/16/politics/16armstrong.html" class="external text" title="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/16/politics/16armstrong.html" rel="nofollow">Inquiry Finds Radio Host's Arrangement Raised Flags</a>", April 16, 2005.</li>

<li>"<a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002243123_watch16.html" class="external text" title="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002243123_watch16.html" rel="nofollow">Warnings on Armstrong Williams ignored, report says</a>", Seattle Times, April 16, 2005.</li>

<li>Erica Iacono, "<a href="http://www.prweek.com/news/news_story.cfm?ID=237527" class="external text" title="http://www.prweek.com/news/news_story.cfm?ID=237527" rel="nofollow">ANALYSIS Government Contracts: DoE contract report takes some heat off of Ketchum</a>", PR Week, April 25, 2005. (Sub Req'd.)</li>

<li>Erica Iacono, "<a href="http://www.prweek.com/news/news_worldwire.cfm?ID=237511&site=3&setcookie=1" class="external text" title="http://www.prweek.com/news/news_worldwire.cfm?ID=237511&site=3&setcookie=1" rel="nofollow">DoE report cites a lack of ROI, not ethics</a>", PR Week, April 25, 2005. (Sub req'd).</li>

<li>Beth Herskovits, "<a href="http://prweek.com/news/news_story.cfm?ID=238286&site=3" class="external text" title="http://prweek.com/news/news_story.cfm?ID=238286&site=3" rel="nofollow">Medicare/Medicaid throws majority of work up for bid</a>," PR Week (sub. req'd.), May 23, 2005.</li>

<li>Beth Herskovits, "<a href="http://www.prweek.com/news/news_worldwire.cfm?ID=238933&site=3" class="external text" title="http://www.prweek.com/news/news_worldwire.cfm?ID=238933&site=3" rel="nofollow">Novartis and Arthur Frommer publish restroom guide for OAB sufferers</a>", PR Week, June 15, 2005. (Sub req'd). (A brief report on a campaign for <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Novartis" title="Novartis">Novartis</a> by Ketchum).</li>

<li>Christopher Lee, "<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/09/AR2005100900959.html" class="external text" title="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/09/AR2005100900959.html" rel="nofollow">Medicare Drug Benefit Outlined in Campaign: As Enrollment Is Set to Begin, Ads and Other Outreach Seek to Educate Eligible Citizens</a>", Washington Post, October 10, 2005.</li>

<li>Neil Buckley, "<a href="http://news.ft.com/cms/s/13bcae1e-d87c-11da-9715-0000779e2340.html" class="external text" title="http://news.ft.com/cms/s/13bcae1e-d87c-11da-9715-0000779e2340.html" rel="nofollow">Kremlin hires PR group to improve G8 image</a>", Financial Times, April 30, 2006.</li>

<li>Keith O'Brien, "<a href="http://www.prweek.com/uk/news/article/556574/" class="external text" title="http://www.prweek.com/uk/news/article/556574/" rel="nofollow">Ketchum's London office to lead multi-agency Kremlin account</a>", PR Week"", May 1, 2006.</li>

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