O’Dwyer-gate: Waggener Edstrom insists it supports the PR industry

Call this what you will — inside baseball, tempest in a teacup, Battle Royal 2010: Intensity in 10 cities! — but people in the PR industry are talking about industry newsletter publisher Jack O’Dwyer’s decision to charge companies to appear on his ranking of PR firms. Waggener Edstrom has said it won’t pay, and O’Dwyer singled the company out in a blog post . Waggener exec Kent Hollenbeck defended the company. “We at Waggener Edstrom have decided that this ar…