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Capitol Communicator is running “Up Close and Personal” profiles of communicators in the mid-Atlantic. In this profile we feature Debbie Bates-Schrott. Photography for the series is by...

Facebook announced an update of its civil rights policies. Over a year ago the social media giant began an audit of its policies lead by Laura Murphy, a civil rights and civil liberties leader. She and her...

Debra Silimeo, EVP at D.C.-based Hager Sharp, has left the firm and launched her own consultancy, the Silimeo Group. “It’s been a wonderful, amazing, challenging and fulfilling 18-plus years at Hager...

Each year, Washington Women in PR honors an exceptional woman in the public relations field and the nomination period for the 2019 award closes on August 12. The Woman of the Year luncheon, established in...

The SPOKEies™  awards honor the best spokespeople to represent brands, non-profits and corporations and the entry period ends June 30. There are more than 40 awards, including the debut of the...

Ithaca College was named the champion of American Advertising Federation (AAF)’s 2019 National Student Advertising Competition (NSAC) by this year’s corporate sponsor and world’s largest hot dog...

By Josh Youngbar  In this ongoing blog series, we’ve been showcasing the creativity, content, and execution of three Emmy® nominated video campaigns created by HighRock. In this post, we’re looking...

Kathy Baird, Group Managing Director of Ogilvy’s D.C. office, has been hired by Nike as senior director of editorial and experiences in the global employee communications team. Baird will move to Portland,...

A new study, “Creativity Anxiety: Evidence for Anxiety Specific to Creative Thinking from STEM to the Arts,” by a research team at Georgetown University provides the first evidence of a form of anxiety...

As its account moves from longtime AOR McCann to DDB, the U.S. Army "will rebrand, relocate and reassign the division responsible for managing hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars spent on marketing and...