CanWest hires new publicists
By Adnews Staff
CanWest MediaWorks has hired Sandra Puglielli as director of publicity for television and radio. Puglielli spent the previous nine years at CHUM as director of publicity for that company's music and youth channels. She will lead all publicity efforts for Global Television and coordinate the work of the publicists for CanWest's other television brands. Dan Kenning has joined the company as publicist for specialty networks. He will be based in Winnipeg. Kenning has worked in the past as a creative writer and Craig Broadcasting and Rogers Broadcasting, and as an editor and writer at the publication What. Yvonne Chiang has joined Global Television as news publicist for the Global National program in Vancouver. Chiang was previously director of media relations at Vancouver public relations agency The Wilcox Group. She was also involved in the original launch of Global National in 1991.