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Kathleen Larey Lewton Receives the 2021 David Ferguson Award
Oct. 21, 2021
The award recognizes a PRSA member and practitioner who has made outstanding contributions to public relations education. -
Michelle Egan, APR, Fellow PRSA, Elected 2023 PRSA Chair
Oct. 16, 2021
The individuals elected to the 2022 PRSA Board of Directors were announced during the 2021 PRSA Leadership Assembly, held virtually. -
PRSSA and the Lymphoma Research Foundation Partner for the 2022 Bateman Case Study Competition
Oct. 14, 2021
The competition will challenge student teams to implement a PR campaign centered on raising awareness around the resources currently available to those touched by the disease. -
Leading Futurists Predict What’s Ahead for Business, Society and PR at PRSA Leadership Training Rally
Oct. 11, 2021
Dan Fukushima and Sheryl Connelly will join Ray Day, PRSA Board of Directors member, in an important conversation at 12:45 p.m. ET on Friday, October 15. -
PRSA College of Fellows Award Highest Honor to Bob Frause, APR, Fellow PRSA
Oct. 11, 2021
PRSA College of Fellows today announced that Bob Frause, APR, Fellow PRSA, of Langley, Washington, received its highest honor, the Outstanding Leadership Award, presented for only the second time since it was first presented in 2009. -
PRSA Chair Michelle Olson, APR, Wins Bronze Stevie® Award in 2021 Stevie Awards for Women in Business
Oct. 1, 2021
She was honored as a Female Thought Leader of the Year in the Government or Non-Profit Category. -
PRSA Celebrates Public Relations Professionals For Their Career Achievements And Contributions To The Profession
Sep. 30, 2021
The individual awards will be presented virtually during ICON 2021 from October 4-20. -
Panel of Agency Executives to Examine State of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in PR and Communications During ICON 2021
Sep. 24, 2021
The panel will discuss the state of DE&I and what communicators can do to better engage Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) in the profession. -
Entrepreneur, Cultural Technologist and Author Samantha Radocchia Added to Roster of ICON 2021 Keynote Speakers
Sep. 24, 2021
On October 19 at 1:30 p.m. ET, Radocchia will examine blockchain – and more broadly, decentralization – as the future backbone or “operating system” for emergent technologies in every industry. -
Military and Veterans Panel at ICON 2021 to Focus on Navigating Communications Using a Military Mindset
Sep. 21, 2021
The keynote panel is composed of leading public affairs practitioners from the Department of Veterans Affairs, the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Army, and the U.S. Air Force. -
PRSA ICON 2021 Panel to Explore Building Trust in a Distrustful Age
Sep. 9, 2021
The keynote panel will features top communications executives from Microsoft Corporation, Phillip Morris International and Pfizer Inc. -
PRSA Adds Entrepreneur, Investor, Bestselling Author Randi Zuckerberg to ICON 2021 Speaker Lineup
Sep. 2, 2021
Zuckerberg, who will speak on October 7 at 1:35 p.m. ET, joins previously announced speaker and award-winning journalist Yamiche Alcindor as a keynote speaker. -
PRSA ICON 2021 Shifting to Fully Virtual Event
Aug. 25, 2021
Following thoughtful consideration, PRSA has come to the decision that it will no longer be possible to move forward with an in-person ICON 2021 in October due to the ongoing situation with COVID-19 and the continued outbreak of cases across the country. -
PRSA Announces 2022 Officer and Board of Directors Nominees
Aug. 2, 2021
Michelle Egan, APR, Fellow PRSA, was nominated as PRSA 2022 Chair-elect. Delegates of the membership will vote on the nominees and any petitioning candidates at the annual PRSA Leadership Assembly on Saturday, October 16, in Orlando, Florida. -
PRSA Launches New Search Tool, Powered by CommunicationsMatch™, To Help Users Connect with Agencies, Professionals and Service Providers
Jul. 15, 2021
The directory allows users to find practitioners based on industry and communications capabilities, size, location, designations, diversity, client experience and more. -
PRSA Welcomes 13 New Members into Its College of Fellows in 2021
Jul. 13, 2021
They join more than 350 leading professionals and educators, each of whom has left a significant footprint on the public relations profession. -
PRSA Chair Michelle Olson, APR, Named Member of PRNEWS’ 2021 Class of Top Women in PR
Jun. 28, 2021
Honored in the Industry Innovator category for her work with PRSA, this is the second time in as many years Olson has been named to the distinguished list of female communicators. -
Blade’s Fictitious Spokesperson, and Why He Matters
Jun. 23, 2021
Business Insider reported that Blade Air Mobility’s public relations representative over the three years leading up to its going public in January did not exist. What Blade did was unethical, and it doesn’t take a public relations professional to know that. -
PRSA Names The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Audience Reach and Engagement Team as 2021 Public Relations Professional of the Year
Jun. 10, 2021
PRSA, the nation’s leading professional organization serving the communications community, today presented its 2021 Public Relations Professional of the Year Award to The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Audience Reach and Engagement Team for its efforts to help elevate the School’s important work surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. -
PRSA Responds to Washington Post Story on the Blurred Line Between PR and Journalism
Jun. 8, 2021
Dear Editor: On behalf of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) and its 19,000-plus members I’d like to thank reporter Elahe Izadi for her June 4 article, “The New Journalism—and the PR Firms Behind It.” It is vital to the public interest to call out misrepresentations perpetrated by ersatz “news” sites and the so-called “PR” organizations behind them.