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Fitzgibbon Media has been critical to the success and strategy of Global Zero. Whether recruiting and working with musicians such as Dave Matthews and Pearl Jam to getting our spokespeople on The Daily Show, BBC or in the New York Times, FitzGibbon delivers. They have a striking knowledge of the domestic and international news cycles, timing, and how to frame campaigns to help build a movement and win. |  |
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Big developments at FitzGibbon Media: Naomi Seligman, a veteran communications strategist known for her dogged pursuit of corrupt politicians and corporate lobbyists, will begin next month as the firm’s principal.
Seligman will be tasked with expanding FitzGibbons’ operations to the West Coast, opening a California office while continuing to provide public relations strategy for political, human rights and environmental movements in Washington and nationally.
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Veterans of international campaigns note that media consultants often advise in much more diplomatic situations, while several polling professionals interviewed for this story described traveling to do face-to-face interviews in less safe regions. Communications professionals can do much of their international consulting from the comfort of their own home. Trevor S. FitzGibbon, a media consultant for several liberal interest groups and international clients, is currently working with a group of students seeking to overthrow the regime in Iran. While the work may be dangerous for his clients, FitzGibbon never leaves the safety of his home computer screen.
“No overhead, no big office,” he says. “People are armed with their laptops and their Blackberries, and they’re able to get press around the world…but I’m not inside Iran. I work to help people inside Iran who remain anonymous, who mobilize dissent against the regime.”
FitzGibbon says he felt like he was in more danger when he was the lead spokesman for MoveOn.org, the liberal online activist group. Nonetheless, he says he’s not afraid of meddling in international affairs or diplomacy efforts (or lack there of) between the United States and Iran.
“First of all, I love controversy,” FitzGibbon says. “Second of all, helping students inside of Iran who are protesting the Iranian regime. If that’s controversial, I like that. I see it as helping democracy.”
- by Shira Toeplitz