Charles Sipkins

Charles Sipkins is a public relations "crisis specialist" executive formerly employed as Sony Pictures Entertainment's "senior communications executive". He was hired by Sony co-chair Amy Pascal in 2013,<ref name=TheWrap/> in a move called by Adweek a "sign of descent into desperation",<ref nameAdweek/> and dismissed by her in 2014. Her email sacking Sipkins was exposed in the Sony Pictures Entertainment hack.<ref nameBloomberg/> Sipkins was replaced by Judy Smith.<ref name=Guardian/>
After reviewing the leaked Sony emails, Gawker called his influence over The New York Timess entertainment reporting on Sony's behalf "unsettling".<ref name=Gawker/>
According to The Daily Dot, also based on email leaks, while he was at Sony, Sipkins was responsible for following senior executives' orders to edit articles about them.<ref name=DailyDot/>
Sipkins was involved in an earlier email related exposé reported by Los Cerritos Community News in November, 2012. In the 2012 incident, documents obtained under were purported to show Sipkins, then working for PR firm Sard Verbinnenn, communicating with the Los Angeles County CEO's press secretary who was attempting to discredit the newspaper. The paper called the actions "disturbing, and possibly violating public policy".<ref name=LCCN/>

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