Unifying Client and Journalist Needs

Meir Kahtan is the founder of Meir Kahtan Public Relations, where he leads both client strategy and media outreach. Over several decades, he has built a reputation for helping reporters tell stronger stories by connecting them with the right experts and insights, while helping refine their thinking, sharpen their messaging, and surface ideas that align with the news cycle.

Meir approaches PR less as promotion and more as contextual placement, with an ear finely tuned to what journalists actually need and a commitment to ensuring that no detail is lost in translation. He plays a behind-the-scenes role that is equal parts listener, editor, connector, discussion facilitator and advocate, always aiming to help both clients and journalists do their best work.

Before founding the firm, Meir studied instrumental performance at the Royal College of Music in London, earning a performance degree with honors. His training in counterpoint, rhythm, and orchestration now informs how he helps clients structure their stories, anticipate what’s needed, and show up with clarity and relevance. He sees the work of matching client ideas to reporter needs as part composition, part collaboration, and part timing.

When not tracking the news, Meir’s interests span music, architectural history, food, tech innovation, languages, literature, and religion.

Maria De Angelis brings an acute sense of on-the-ground perception and organization to the collaborative work at our agency. With sensibilities and skills sharpened by rigorous studies at MIT School of Architecture + Planning, along with decades of musical training and international performance experience as a jazz musician, she brings multiple disciplines to bear on the work of matching client content to journalistic needs. In the close team environment of Meir Kahtan Public Relations, she has honed the focus to quickly and deeply take in complex research, data and ideas and translate those into well-designed campaigns, intellectual capital, and media-digestible content for clients across multiple industries and sectors.

Maria’s understanding of jazz improvisation helps her to respond creatively in our fast-changing public relations environment. A multi-talented writer, editor and communicator interested in virtually everything, she previously worked as a licensed architect in Boston and Manhattan, ran her own alternative health practice in Upstate New York, and lived as a musician in France before rejoining Meir Kahtan Public Relations in 2011. Maria holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Georgetown University and a Master of Architecture from MIT, with honors in Acoustics. She enjoys working with smart people and keeping pace with the latest thought trends through audiobooks, travel, and the arts.

Brittany Cota is living proof that while we live in an AI-driven world, you can’t extract the human element. Brittany is our Senior Media Strategist, the person whose judgement helps determine where, when, and to whom we reach out.

Since joining Meir Kahtan Public Relations (MKPR) in 2016, Brittany has helped shape how our clients reach the media, not by casting a wide net, but by making deliberate, well-considered decisions. Thanks to this process, our open rates routinely exceed industry averages, and our unsubscribe rate remains at near zero—both clear signs that our outreach adds value, not clutter, to journalists’ inboxes.

Brittany began at MKPR tracking the coverage we helped generate for clients, digitizing and archiving articles, and building structured databases of results. From there, she moved into deep media analysis, both managing our outreach execution and providing clients with curated research that helps them understand where they fit in the news cycle to help optimize their engagement with the press.

A graduate of the School of Visual Arts in New York City with a degree in Visual and Critical Studies, Brittany started her career archiving historic material for Life magazine. Her ability to bring both structure and visual logic to complex information helps make each campaign sharper, smarter, and better aligned with what journalists actually need.