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Public Relations Society of America has named Maureen Walsh chief marketing & sales officer. She was CEO of Winn Feline Foundation, which supports research into medical conditions affecting cats.
Public Relations Society of America reported a 15 percent jump in 2018 revenues to $13.8M, sparked by a sharp rise investment income, according to its recently released Form 990.
Public Relations Society of America has put the search for the CEO "on hold" until early next year when more people are looking for jobs. Joe Truncale stepped down as chief on July 15.
Michelle Olson, who runs Scottsdale office of New York's Fingerpaint, was elected 2021 PRSA National Chair at the 2019 PRSA Leadership Assembly in San Diego.
PRSA/Los Angeles is stepping up its committment to diversity with networking event with Black PR Society/LA and diversity celebration with Hispanic PR Assn.
Laura Ling, a crusading human rights journalist who was imprisoned in North Korea, will keynote PRSA’s International Conference slated for San Diego from Oct. 20-22.
Public Relations Society of America's New York chapter is honoring companies and PR firms that foster diversity in the workplace and champion underrepresented groups with the new Big Apple Leadership in Diversity Award.
D S Simon Media CEO Doug Simon has stepped down as president-elect of Public Relations Society of America's New York chapter. (2 reader comments)
PRSA fellows Mary Beth West and Susan Hart call for PRSA to operate as a non-partisan organization. They say Society should not be perceived as 'organization representing a particular group of political ideology like-mindedness.' (2 reader comments)
Providing PRSA with a non-voting ethics officer on its national board, eliminating the role of the national board in officer nominations and adding a voting ethics representative are goals of bylaw amendments introduced by PRSA fellows Susan Hart and Mary Beth West.
Two long-standing PRSA members have introduced what they say is the first in a series of five bylaw amendments that call for reforms in the organization’s ethics, governance, organizational transparency and nonpartisanship. (2 reader comments)
In accepting PRSA Foundation’s 2018 Paladin Award last night, former MSL Group chairman Lou Capozzi challenged the audience to “touch one more life, mentor one more kid.”
Ketchum’s 170 PRSA Silver Anvils and Ogilvy’s win of the “Best of Anvils” in 2013, when Ogilvy’s Mickey Nall was chair, raise ethical questions.
We have questions for Ketchum’s Ray Kotcher, permanent “senior counsel” to PRSA’s board and another indication of Omnicom/Ketchum’s influence on the Society.
The PRSA Oregon Chapter, saying “Hell No!” to proposals of the Society’s national board, shames silent PRSA/NY which is in collusion with national.
PRSA staff’s aversion to national conferences in New York (one in past 25 years) has cost upwards of $4.5 million in the past ten years.
Jay Baer, who touts the importance of customer service, told PRSA Oct. 10 that word-of-mouth is the key to business success.
The PRSA conference in Boston ended yesterday but a blackout continues on what happened at the Assembly Saturday, Oct. 7.
Opposition by PRSA members stopped bylaw proposals that would have increased board power to amend bylaws and which would have eliminated district representation on the board.
Removal of PRSA board minutes from the Society’s website “flies in the face of multiple Code provisions” calling for the “free flow of information,” former board member Mary Beth West said in an email to the board.
Member opposition yesterday stopped PRSA bylaw proposals that would have greatly increased board power to amend bylaws and which would have eliminated district representation on the board.
PRSA/New York has joined national PRSA’s press blackout of today’s Assembly by refusing to supply any coverage of the meeting.
The dangers of microwave radiation from cellphones, cell towers, and routers in offices should be on the program of the PRSA national conference starting tomorrow. But it isn’t.
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