Mike Otterson is coming home. Not all the way home (he is a Scouser) but a lot closer than he has been for most of his career. Otterson’s professional journey in journalism and then public relations has taken him from Liverpool to Canberra, from Tokyo to Salt Lake City, and now on his retirement he is coming back to London.
After a time in secular journalism, Otterson began work as a public relations officer, and eventually became the senior public relations officer for Mormonism worldwide. After decades in this work, he retired a few months ago and has been sent to London to function as president of the Mormon temple just outside the capital. In this new capacity he is not permitted to engage in media relations, but I had the good fortune to be able to speak to him in the month between his retirement and the assumption of his new duties.
