NY Times: “Retired General Joins Sitrick Brincko”
Lt. Gen. H Steven Blum has been appointed managing director and group practice leader of Sitrick Brincko Group, a management consulting firm that offers advice in the field of strategic, crisis and corporate communications.
General Blum retired from his role in the United States Army in June this year after 41 years of service. He is …
Financial Times: “The spin doctor of restructuring”
By Matthew Garrahan in Los Angeles
Mike Sitrick was never supposed to work in public relations. As a young man he wanted to be a journalist and worked briefly as a reporter when, in 1969, he found himself in talks with the Chicago Tribune about a job paying $125 a week.
He also received an offer …
Maya Pogoda and Sandra Sternberg: “Communications and the 363 Sale Process”
From the Daily Bankruptcy Review
As the economy continues to throttle more and more
financially borderline corporations, troubled companies
and their advisers are increasingly turning to what is
known as the “363 sale” to engineer their way out of
bankruptcy and liquidation. General Motors did it;
Chrysler did it; the Chicago Cubs did. Companies as
diverse as publisher Freedom Communications and
government information …
Glenn Bunting on Sea World’s Response to Orca Trainer Death
From the Associated Press
Marketing and public relations experts say what the company does in coming days will be key to preserving its image.
Glenn Bunting, managing director for the Los Angeles-based crisis management firm Sitrick and Co. said SeaWorld needs to respond promptly and proactively.
“They need to review every safety precaution,” he said. “They need to …
Rehabilitating John Edwards: Mike Sitrick Tells Time Magazine
There’s unpopular, there’s widely loathed, there’s despised, and then there’s John Edwards. Americans are a tolerant people, but they have a line, and evidently, when you cheat on your cancer-stricken wife, lie about it to everyone while running for president, and then decline to acknowledge fathering a love child for two years, you’ve crossed it. …