GolinHarris announced the appointment of Mark O’Connor as executive director, National Media Relations. Based in New York, O’Connor will lead the agency’s national media relations team and provide strategic media relations guidance to clients across multiple practices. Additionally, O’Connor will serve as co-leader of the agency’s connector community, alongside Jeff Beringer, global Digital Practice leader. The agency’s connector community is responsible for sharing clients’ stories across earned, shared, owned and paid media. Most recently O’Connor served as executive vice president of national media relations at Zeno Group. (Release)

Outreach Strategies, LLC, (OS) announced the hire of Alison Omens, former AFL-CIO director of Media Outreach and deputy director of Public Affairs, as vice president. In Omens’ previous role at the AFL-CIO, she oversaw strategic communications and all national, state and local media strategy in the political, legislative and economic arena. Omens was responsible for developing and supervising a broad communications network with representatives for all fifty states. (Release)

Allison+Partners announced that Jeremy Rosenberg has been appointed senior vice president of digital media responsible for leading and evolving the agency’s digital offerings globally. Rosenberg’s career spans nearly two decades of digital and social media marketing that will serve the agency’s existing and prospective roster well. Rosenberg joins Allison+Partners from Cohn & Wolfe, where he led integrated communications programs for such clients as Walmart, Panasonic and Nokia. While there he also developed the digital and social media-training curriculum for the agency’s global network. (Release)