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HDMK is an American strategic communication lobbying firm based in Washington, D.C., whose partners were originally four Republican communication professionals: Terry Holt, Trent Duffy, Jim Morrell and Chad Kolton. The group aided the Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund, Inc. (OPSEC) is a 501(c)#501.28c.29.284.29, 501(c)(4) organization formed in the United States in 2012 to conduct a media campaign critical of Barack Obama, President Obama by accusing his administration of .... In 2013, the firm was reorganized. Morrell and Kolton quit, while Democratic operative Mike Hacker became partner. References External linksHDMKOpen Secrets
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Chad Kolton
Chad Kolton is a co-founder and Managing Partner oBlueprint Communications He had previously co-founded and worked as a partner in the American public relations firm HDMK. Through that role he was also a hired spokesperson for Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund. He lived in Moscow from 1998 to 2000 as program director for the International Republican Institute, which promotes democratic values. He later worked as public affairs chief for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). From 2003 through 2005 he was press secretary for the Office of Management and Budget. In March 2005, Cassidy & Associates selected him to be senior vice president in charge of their new strategic communications practice. In August 2006, Kolton returned to his work in the Bush administration as a spokesperson for the Director of National Intelligence. Kolton was credited with making the DNI's office more accessible to journalists, such as by providing regular off-the-record briefings by senior ...
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Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund
Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund, Inc. (OPSEC) is a 501(c)#501.28c.29.284.29, 501(c)(4) organization formed in the United States in 2012 to conduct a media campaign critical of Barack Obama, President Obama by accusing his administration of disclosing sensitive information about the Death of Osama bin Laden, killing of Osama bin Laden and taking too much credit for the operation. In response, the Barack Obama 2012 presidential campaign, Obama Campaign compared the organization's efforts to the "Swiftboating, Swift Boat" attacks against Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry in 2004. The military portmanteau "OPSEC" is shorthand for operations security, wherein security measures are taken to prevent friendly operations and intentions from being observed by an adversary's intelligence systems. OPSEC, Inc. states that its members are primarily former United States special operations forces, U.S. special operations forces and United States Intelligence Community, intellig ...
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Lobbying In The United States
Lobbying in the United States describes paid activity in which advocacy group, special interest groups hire well-connected professional advocates, often lawyers, to argue for specific legislation in decision-making bodies such as the United States Congress. It is a highly controversial phenomenon, often seen in a negative light by journalists and the American public, with some critics describing it as a legal form of bribery, influence peddling, and/or extortion.Robert Reich, June 9, 2015, Salon magazineRobert Reich: Lobbyists are snuffing our democracy, one legal bribe at a time Retrieved May 30, 2017, "...This second scandal is perfectly legal but it's a growing menace ... the financial rewards from lobbying have mushroomed, as big corporations and giant Wall Street banks have sunk fortunes into rigging the game to their advantage...."Mike Masnick, April 12, 2012, Tech DirtIs Lobbying Closer To Bribery... Or Extortion? Retrieved May 30, 2017, While lobbying is subject to extens ...
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Washington, D
Washington commonly refers to: * Washington (state), United States * Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States ** A metonym for the federal government of the United States ** Washington metropolitan area, the metropolitan area centered on Washington, D.C. * George Washington (1732–1799), the first president of the United States Washington may also refer to: Places England * Washington, Tyne and Wear, a town in the City of Sunderland metropolitan borough ** Washington Old Hall, ancestral home of the family of George Washington * Washington, West Sussex, a village and civil parish Greenland * Cape Washington, Greenland * Washington Land Philippines *New Washington, Aklan, a municipality *Washington, a barangay in Catarman, Northern Samar *Washington, a barangay in Escalante, Negros Occidental *Washington, a barangay in San Jacinto, Masbate *Washington, a barangay in Surigao City United States * Washington, Wisconsin (other) * Fort Washington (other) ...
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Communication Professionals
Professional communication, encompasses written, oral, visual and digital communication within a workplace context. This discipline blends together pedagogical principles of rhetoric, technology, software, and learning theory to improve and deliver communication in a variety of settings ranging from technical writing to usability and digital media design to more effectively communicate in the business world. It is a new discipline that focuses on the study of information and the ways it is created, managed, distributed, and consumed. Since communications is a rapidly changing area, technological progress seems to often outpace the number of available expert practitioners. This creates a demand for skilled communicators. Communication skills are critical to a business because all businesses, to varying degrees, involve the following: writing, reading, editing, speaking, listening, software applications, computer graphics, and Internet research. Job candidates with professional c ...
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Wall Street Journal
''The Wall Street Journal'' is an American business-focused, international daily newspaper based in New York City, with international editions also available in Chinese and Japanese. The ''Journal'', along with its Asian editions, is published six days a week by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corp. The newspaper is published in the broadsheet format and online. The ''Journal'' has been printed continuously since its inception on July 8, 1889, by Charles Dow, Edward Jones, and Charles Bergstresser. The ''Journal'' is regarded as a newspaper of record, particularly in terms of business and financial news. The newspaper has won 38 Pulitzer Prizes, the most recent in 2019. ''The Wall Street Journal'' is one of the largest newspapers in the United States by circulation, with a circulation of about 2.834million copies (including nearly 1,829,000 digital sales) compared with ''USA Today''s 1.7million. The ''Journal'' publishes the luxury news and lifestyle magazine ' ...
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Public Relations Companies Of The United States
In public relations and communication science, publics are groups of individual people, and the public (a.k.a. the general public) is the totality of such groupings. This is a different concept to the sociological concept of the ''Öffentlichkeit'' or public sphere. The concept of a public has also been defined in political science, psychology, marketing, and advertising. In public relations and communication science, it is one of the more ambiguous concepts in the field. Although it has definitions in the theory of the field that have been formulated from the early 20th century onwards, and suffered more recent years from being blurred, as a result of conflation of the idea of a public with the notions of audience, market segment, community, constituency, and stakeholder. Etymology and definitions The name "public" originates with the Latin '' publicus'' (also '' poplicus''), from ''populus'', to the English word 'populace', and in general denotes some mass population ("the p ...
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American Companies Established In 2007
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas The Indigenous peoples of the Americas are the inhabitants of the Americas before the arrival of the European settlers in the 15th century, and the ethnic groups who now identify themselves with those peoples. Many Indigenous peoples of the A ... * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquar ...
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