PR Exec With Ties to City Gets New Post
The local chief of Fleishman-Hillard, a multinational public relations firm whose lucrative Los Angeles government contracts have recently been criticized by Dist. Atty. Steve Cooley, is getting a new position.
Doug Dowie, who has led Fleishman’s Los Angeles office since 1999 and developed a close relationship with Mayor James K. Hahn’s administration, is taking charge of the firm’s growing public affairs operation throughout California, according to sources familiar with the move.
Dowie also will become co-chairman of Fleishman’s national public affairs practice.
He has helped Fleishman land millions of dollars of local government contracts with, among others, the Department of Water and Power and the airport and harbor departments, all of whose contracting is being scrutinized by federal prosecutors.
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