NEWS BRIEFS

BOSTON: Brodeur Worldwide has appointed two new VPs. Robyn Kratzer, a former broadcast news producer and PR professor, will head up the Salt Lake City office, and Lawrence Malone, a government relations and PR veteran, will oversee a variety of infotech accounts in the Boston office. The agency also promoted Brian Chapman, who heads up the Phoenix office, and John Smith, who leads Brodeur's health technology practice, to senior VP posts.