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I oversaw corporate communications for Anchor Gaming – a publicly traded slot machine developer – before the company was sold to International Game Technology in 2001. It’s rare nowadays that the morning newspaper or the evening news telecast breaks a story. How did you get your start in corporate communications?
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Twenty to twenty-five years ago, you turned on the TV and listened to something or opened the newspaper and read it, but you had no feedback and couldn't say if something wasn't true. Let me take you back to 2001 when I wrote the first Standard for Business Ethics in Bulgaria. Now, two things make our lives completely different.
Parke Gibson International, in New York in 1960. “He Williams, a 2001 recipient of the D. Prior to opening his own firm, Gibson was an advertising representative for Interstate Newspapers, 1954-56; manager of public relations for Johnson Publishing Co., He was the founder of the first Black-owned PR firm, D.
Way before newspapers, the Romans and Greeks used scrolls, Egyptians used papyrus, and ancient China used a form of paper to distribute information, even if that information was limited to an inner circle of elites or an educated few in those cases. China is credited with starting the world's first newspaper.
And rewinding the tape, because all of us, since 2001, when he declared his participation in politics, have listened to him countless times. I was the first newspaper journalist in Bulgaria to do a big interview with him, before that it was Mr. Kevorkyan, of course, in "Every Sunday", before that it was Mitko Petrov on the National Radio.
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