International Organizations

Firms see opportunities in helping Haiti rebuild (The Tennessean)

15 Mar 2010

As post-earthquake Haiti makes the transition from recovery to rebuilding, South Florida companies are heading to the front lines to offer their services. Some have been involved with Haiti for decades. Others are making their first foray into the country, drawn by the nation's massive needs and the allure of international contracts.

Automated poll review worries int’l delegates (Manila Bulletin)

15 Mar 2010

The delays in the poll body's preparation, lack of public confidence in the election process, and many other electoral concerns, have given the international delegation of the National Democratic Institute (NDI) reasons to be worried about the run-up to the automated elections this May. Jamie Metzl, one of the delegates sent by NDI in the Philippines, said their pre-election assessment report ...

Marshall Heyman: Hollywood publicists get their due. (The New Yorker)

14 Mar 2010

Two days before the Eighty-second Academy Awards, the International Cinematographers Guild hosted, of all things, the Forty-seventh Annual Publicists Awards, a gala luncheon at the Hyatt Regency in Century City, to celebrate Hollywood’s press agents. When the publicists first organized, back in 1937, they had their . . .