News From Porter Novelli, Rubenstein PR & ICR

Tim Kane Joins ICR Team

Strategic communications and PR firm ICR announced the addition of Tim Kane to their staff as managing director overseeing their digital branding efforts. Kane has worked in agency positions as well as corporate efforts and has expertise in most PR areas including social and experiential media, as well as traditional and digital media. With this new job, he’ll use his experience to move ICR forward in the creative and digital markets.

Porter Novelli Becomes PR Agent of Record for Feeding America

Feeding America is comprised of 200 or more food banks across the nation. Last year they provided more than a billion meals to people through 60,000 food pantries in the U.S. Their goal in signing Porter Novelli as their PR firm is to get the word out to more people about the 1 in 8 people impacted by domestic hunger.

Porter Novelli will implement ideas and plans developed along with Feeding America’s communication team. They will also be looking at the existing resources, messaging, and resources to find innovative options to increase the positive impact on the hungry and homeless.

Rubenstein PR Sues Private School for Not Paying Invoice

Legacy Business School, a for-profit school associated with the European School of Economics, seems to be having trouble paying a PR bill of $57,000 owed to Richard Rubenstein PR, son of the legendary New York PR expert, Howard Rubenstein. Legacy was previously endorsed by Kris Jenner, who was previously a featured part of their website, though she’s since been removed.

The school only opened in September and is located in Trump Tower. Annual tuition for the school is $82,060. Suit was filed by Rubenstein in the Manhattan Supreme Court. Suits for not paying debts are not unfamiliar to the affiliated European School run by Alessandro Nomellini. There are at least a dozen such suits against them.