Public Relations

Fleishman-Hillard "agreed to pay $5.7 million to settle a lawsuit" brought against it by the city of Los Angeles, which claimed the firm "defrauded city departments by inflating monthly bills." The firm will pay $5.5 million to the Department of Water and Power, the main contract in question, with the remainder going to city agencies "that oversee the airports, harbor and visitors bureau." Fleishman-Hillard wanted to avoid "damage to its reput

The report by the Education Department's inspector general on Armstrong Williams, a pundit paid $240,000 to advertise and advocate for the No Child Left Behind Act, notes that the White House "was told about potential problems," but that di

Following the FCC's Public Notice on "fake news," the U.S. Senate approved, by 98 to 0, a measure requiring "clear notification within the text or audio of the prepackaged news story" for all fake news produced with federal funding.

"Missions that might be considered conflicting are not new for Porter Novelli," a PR firm that "has worked for both the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and for Guinness stout and Johnnie Walker Scotch." But Porter Novelli's $2.5 million contract with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to update the food guide pyramid concerns some.