John Saunders, CEO of FleishmanHillard, makes his first appearance on The PR Week podcast after eight years in charge at the Omnicom Group agency — and his debut comes during a week packed full of news.

Saunders, whose firm has won back-to-back Outstanding Agency awards at the PRWeek Awards U.S., talks about the state of the industry as well as the biggest marketing and communications news of the week.

Topics include:

-Pride 2023 and PRWeek’s Pride in PR list;

-Chris Licht out at CNN after a disastrous profile in The Atlantic;

-Brand Entertainment Awards winners;

-Big people moves including Corey duBrowa joining BCW and Aaron Radelet leaving Walgreens Boots Alliance;

-And

Leo Messi coming to the U.S

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