1. Corporate Voice Weber Shandwick Delhi won the 2007 United Nations Grand Award for Outstanding Achievement in Public Relations – The CVWS Delhi team has won this prestigious award for its campaign on sensitizing people on the use of condoms. Read this story in The Hindu Business Line – an excellent case study on the use of traditional media relations, direct mailers, advertising, events, and the new media. Kudos to the team.

2. Shekhar Ghosh to head Sampark PR as CEO – Shekhar moves from R&PM:Edelman where he served as the Chief Operating Officer (COO). Prior to Edelman, Shekhar was the Director, Strategy at Hanmer & Partners for over five years. Read the release here.

3. Ogilvy PR to handle Satyam’s account – To help build Satyam Computer Science’s brand on a global mandate.

4. PR is a noble profession – Public relations, unlike in the past commands respect today as a noble profession like journalism and is meant not just to sell concept or an idea, but to educate, enlighten and empower the masses, chairman of Prasar Bharathi, Dr M V Kamat said.

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