New research shows the PR-journalist relationship is getting worse Guest Columnist May 16, 2022 Insights, PR, Top Right SponsoredJournalist engagement with PR professionals is continuing to fall over time. According to the Propel Q2 Propel Media Barometer report, which analyzed roughly 400,000 story pitches that PR people sent to...
PR firm tells clients to keep quiet on draft Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade Capitol Communicator May 6, 2022 Insights, PR, Upper Left SponsoredPublic relations firm Zeno is privately advising its high-profile corporate clients to avoid commenting on the draft Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, according to an internal communication...
Sally Kidd, former WBAL Washington Bureau Reporter, joins Antenna in D.C. Capitol Communicator May 5, 2022 Maryland News, PR, Upper Left SponsoredSally Kidd, former national correspondent for Hearst Television in its D.C. bureau has joined Antenna, reports TVNewsCheck. Kidd was Washington Bureau Reporter for WBAL in Baltimore, which is owned by...
NAB adds Alex Siciliano as senior communications strategist Capitol Communicator May 2, 2022 People, PR, Upper Left SponsoredThe National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) announced that Alex Siciliano has joined the organization as senior communications strategist. Siciliano reports to NAB Chief of Staff and Executive Vice...
WWPR announces 2022-2023 Advisory Council Capitol Communicator May 2, 2022 PRWashington Women in Public Relations (WWPR) announced its 2022-2023 Advisory Council, tasked with providing WWPR leadership with strategic advice on the direction of the organization. “We are so excited to...
Maryland updates: Data is focus of latest imre hires; news from Groove Commerce, MGH, SECU and Pugh & Tiller Jeffrey Davis May 1, 2022 Marketing, Maryland News, PR, Upper Left SponsoredMarketing agency imre announced that it has named Matthew Zogby as Chief Data Officer and Christopher Lang as Head of Data Science, as the pair will set out how to redefine what data means to the agency and...
PR pros earned $10K more than journalists in 2021; D.C. has among the highest number of PR pros Guest Columnist April 28, 2022 Media, PR, Top Right SponsoredAccording to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey, in 2021 the median annual income of a PR pro (labeled in the survey as Public Relations Specialist) was...
WWPR opens nominations for 2022 Emerging Leaders Awards Capitol Communicator April 26, 2022 PR, Upper Left SponsoredWashington Women in Public Relations (WWPR) announced that nominations for the 2022 Emerging Leaders Awards (ELAs) are now open. Each year, states WWPR, "we honor six outstanding young women in the...
Alan Kelly, one of the PR industry’s “true iconoclasts,” dies at 64 Capitol Communicator April 24, 2022 People, PR, Upper Left SponsoredAlan Kelly, Bethesda, Maryland, who died at the age of 64, was one of the public relations industry’s "true iconoclasts, an original thinker and a frequent critic of what he saw as either hypocrisy or...
People in the news: Damon Burrell joins GEICO as CMO and Joseph Feese joins CFP Board as PR Director Capitol Communicator April 20, 2022 Marketing, PRDamon Burrell joined GEICO as Chief Marketing Officer. Burrell, above, will oversee all of GEICO’s marketing efforts. Burrell, states a release, joins GEICO with more than 20 years of experience across a...
