Company Profile

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Since 1986, Weisman Hamlin Public Relations has provided exceptional public relations counsel and service to more than 100 commercial, non-profit, and advocacy clients. The agency brings outstanding levels of experience, skill, and savvy to each and every assignment.

WHPR’s two partners, veteran journalist and publicist Sydney Weisman and her husband, David Hamlin, a former non-profit executive and published writer, work on every single WHPR account. Their collective expertise provides every client with extraordinary results.  WHPR is a full service practice, although the agency has a number of areas of specialty, including non-profit & advocacy, destination PR, education, children's fitness and sports, public policy communications and health and healthcare advocacy.

• WHPR has identified, framed, and placed thousands of news stories in print and electronic media from coast to coast. WHPR clients have appeared in nationally distributed newspapers, in editorial pages, feature sections, sports sections, in life style stories and in magazines, community press, journals, and trade press. An impressive number of WHPR clients have enjoyed front page coverage. WHPR has generated millions of dollars worth of electronic media coverage for its clients, including a 90 minute special, a 3-hour live broadcast, international exposure on “American Idol,” and “Dancing With The Stars,” radio interviews, news and feature coverage, radio remotes and media co-sponsored community events.

WHPR has the capacity & expertise necessary to create broadcast quality news and feature stories, suitable for both distribution to news media and website transmission.

• WHPR’s counsel reaches far beyond news coverage: the agency has developed initiatives on behalf of clients including a shaving cream promotion, a comprehensive fitness program for children, an art show which draws thousands, an auto show now in its 16th year, and advocacy campaigns over a broad range of issues. 

• WHPR provides a level of sophisticated communications strategy which is without peer. With a single sentence, WHPR built a highly successful development campaign which had, in a previous attempt, generated massive opposition. With sound and skillful guidance, WHPR has provided crisis counsel to non-profit agencies, law firms, and commercial clients. With one news conference, WHPR helped a client change the entire shape and texture of Los Angeles’ response to the 1992 riots.

• WHPR’s partners, through their popular MASTERING THE MEDIA^TM seminars, have provided remarkably successful training in media management to hundreds of non-profit and advocacy agencies and associations in California and metropolitan metropolitan Los Angeles.

Partner level counsel and service, experience without parallel, message development of the very highest caliber, and sophisticated media management: WHPR is the finest, most dynamic small PR agency in the nation’s most demanding metropolitan media market.