Arnold Worldwide has hired Kryssy Bloch as VP, director of digital talent management. She reports to Matt Howell, managing partner/global chief digital officer, and will work with him to further enhance digital talent development across Arnold’s offices and client accounts. In addition to spearheading recruitment efforts, she will partner with internal teams to develop and institute programs to promote industry-leading knowledge and thought leadership throughout the agency’s network. She is based in Arnold’s New York office.
Bloch come over to Arnold from Ogilvy & Mather where she was associate director, interactive and technology recruiting. She cut her teeth in digital at R/GA where she spent six years, her last role there being as program manager of technology. At R/GA she oversaw resourcing, recruitment and retention issues for the agency’s large technology department, and managed the internship program, which welcomed 15 to 20 international students each year.
Bloch is the latest addition to Arnold which has been on a digital hiring spree over the last 18 months. In addition to the appointment of Howell in his current post, the agency brought on nine specialists from Modernista!’s digital department. Most recently, Arnold hired two Digitas veterans, Elliott Seaborn as exec VP, executive director at Arnold Boston, and Kim Bartkowski, digital creative director at ArnoldNYC. Arnold has additionally hired 60 digital specialists in the U.S. (bringing the total to 150 globally) across social media, mobile, user experience, digital production and interaction design from various agencies.
Alec Baldwin Urges Judge To Stand By Dismissal Of Involuntary Manslaughter Case In “Rust” Shooting
Alec Baldwin urged a New Mexico judge on Friday to stand by her decision to skuttle his trial and dismiss an involuntary manslaughter charge against the actor in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of a Western movie.
State District Court Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer dismissed the case against Baldwin halfway through a trial in July based on the withholding of evidence by police and prosecutors from the defense in the 2021 shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the film "Rust."
The charge against Baldwin was dismissed with prejudice, meaning it can't be revived once any appeals of the decision are exhausted.
Special prosecutor Kari Morrissey recently asked the judge to reconsider, arguing that there were insufficient facts and that Baldwin's due process rights had not been violated.
Baldwin, the lead actor and co-producer on "Rust," was pointing a gun at cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during a rehearsal when it went off, killing her and wounding director Joel Souza. Baldwin has said he pulled back the hammer — but not the trigger — and the revolver fired.
The case-ending evidence was ammunition that was brought into the sheriff's office in March by a man who said it could be related to Hutchins' killing. Prosecutors said they deemed the ammunition unrelated and unimportant, while Baldwin's lawyers alleged that they "buried" it and filed a successful motion to dismiss the case.
In her decision to dismiss the Baldwin case, Marlowe Sommer described "egregious discovery violations constituting misconduct" by law enforcement and prosecutors, as well as false testimony about physical evidence by a witness during the trial.
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