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Susan Feeney Leaves NPR for GMMB

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After nine years at NPR, Susan Feeney joins public affairs firm GMMB as senior counselor. Her most recent post at the radio network was as Senior Planning Editor at All Things Considered.

GMMB is a division of Omnicom Group’s (NYSE: OMC) Fleishman-Hillard with offices in Washington, D.C., London, Seattle, and Los Angeles. The firm focuses on policy, politics and advocacy with case studies including the Obama campaign’s advertising and events, the U.N. Foundation’s malaria prevention effort and the CTIA’s positioning and safety messaging.

Prior to joining NPR in 2000, Feeney covered politics and the White House for The Dallas Morning News and The Times-Picayune. Feeney’s has direct advocacy experience as founder of the Friends of the Times-Picayune, a non-profit emergency relief fund for families of the newspaper’s staff displaced by Hurricane Katrina. The effort raised almost $400,000 in support of 200 families.

[Feeney, third from the left with fellow Friends of Times-Picayune]

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