Meyocks, a West Des Moines-based branding and marketing agency, has hired Lynn Meadows as manager of public relations. She’ll be responsible for developing earned media strategies and campaigns for clients. Meadows most recently worked as a communications specialist for the city of Des Moines and for the Iowa State University College of Human Sciences, where she was news director and magazine editor. She was a longtime journalist at the Iowa Statehouse and on the presidential campaign trail for media outlets including the Des Moines Register, IowaPolitics.com and Lee Newspapers. A native of Hawaii, Meadows began her career as a TV reporter and was also a producer and assignment editor at KGMB-TV, the CBS affiliate in Honolulu. And if you’re wondering how to properly pronounce Meyocks, the agency gets that question a lot and has developed a fun guide here. (The name rhymes with “geeks.”)