Weber Shandwick Promotes Liz Miklya and Jake Reint to Vice President

Wednesday, April 16, 2008 BLOOMINGTON, Minn., April 16, 2008 – The Minneapolis-St. Paul office of Weber Shandwick today announced the promotions of Liz Miklya and Jake Reint to vice president.

Since joining Weber Shandwick in 2003, Miklya has provided invaluable crisis counseling, strategic media relations and message strategizing for a diverse set of clients ranging from celebrities to global organizations. She also specializes in training, coaching and preparing clients for media interviews and formal presentations related to product launches, crises and other developments. Prior to joining Weber Shandwick, Miklya was the political reporter for the former Twin Cities-based Fox 29 TV-news station. She received a master’s in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and a bachelor’s degree in government from Harvard University.

Reint has led many of Weber Shandwick’s most visible local public affairs campaigns since he joined the agency in 1996. In his new role, Reint will continue to manage his existing clients while overseeing the development of the agency’s award-winning Public Affairs practice in Minnesota. Reint also will help lead the agency’s growing Corporate, Community and Public Affairs practice group.  In addition to his client work, in 2007 Reint was one of 10 public affairs professionals in the United States chosen by the Department of Homeland Security and FEMA to help draft new summary public information guidelines for the federal government’s National Incident Management System. Reint earned a bachelor's degree in journalism/public relations from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn. while also completing a concentration in business communication at Augsburg College in Minneapolis.


About Weber Shandwick
Weber Shandwick is one of the world's leading global public relations firms with offices in major media, business and government capitals around the world. The firm specializes in strategic marketing communications, media relations, public affairs, reputation management, and crisis and issues management. It also offers corporate communications counseling services. The firm provides specialized integrated services including Web relations, advocacy advertising, market research and visual communications. Weber Shandwick received the highest client-satisfaction honors in the 2007 Agency Excellence Survey by PRWeek U.S. and in 2006, was named Large PR Firm of the Year (PR News U.S.), European Consultancy of the Year (The Holmes Report) and Network of the Year (Asia Pacific PR Awards). The firm also won the 2005, 2006 and 2007 United Nations Grand Award for Outstanding Achievement in Public Relations. To learn more, please visit www.webershandwick.com.

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