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Montieth & Company is recognized by the dotCOMM Awards, which are administered and judged by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals, with a Gold Award for its website design and development for nonprofit organization the Pink Bows Foundation. The agency designed a new website for the foundation, which was created in memory of Madison Alexis Dubiski, a victim of the 2021 Astroworld Festival crowd crush. M&Co also produced the website copy, which conveys the foundation’s mission of advancing crowd safety education, mental health support at events, and training and certification for event organizers globally, ensuring such tragedies never happen again. M&Co received an Honorable Mention in the same category, citing the agency’s work for an emerging leader in the renewable natural gas (RNG) industry. It has also been named a finalist in the 2025 Nonprofit Communications Awards, which are awarded by PRDaily. "This recognition speaks to the core of our work—helping mission-driven organizations tell their stories with purpose and impact,” said M&Co. CEO and global managing partner Montieth Illingworth.
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Baker Public Relations founder and CEO Megan Baker, Founder and CEO of Baker Public Relations, is among this year’s Women Who Mean Business honorees. The recognition, part of the Albany Business Review’s Women in Leadership program, considers the impact of the honorees’ contributions to their companies, industries and the community. “Megan has endless hustle, heart and determination marked by her success as a national public relations agency,” said executive director and CEO of the Albany Convention Center Authority Monica Kurzejeski. With offices in Albany, Pittsburgh and St. Petersburg, Baker PR serves clients nationwide across sectors including healthcare, tourism, technology, legal services, real estate, government, lifestyle, hospitality, nonprofit and education.
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Ripley PR is named a finalist for the Franchise Business Review’s 2025 FBR Employee Satisfaction Awards. The awards, which will be given out on Aug. 20, recognize franchise companies and their suppliers with the highest employee satisfaction based on an independent survey in which FBR analyzed data from over 11,000 corporate and unit-level employees. “In a time when attracting and keeping great talent is essential to a company’s success, we’re proud to celebrate these standout brands for creating positive, people-focused cultures,” said Franchise Business Review president and COO Michelle Rowan.
French/West/Vaughan was honored as one of the Top Agencies of the Year in the Midsize Agencies category during Ragan’s 2025 PR Daily Awards and Top Agencies Awards program... Mason SVP, public relations Derek Beere is named the 2025 Practitioner of the Year by the PRSA’s Greater Connecticut Chapter... The Communications Group’s Women In Industry Podcast (WIN) won Best Business Podcast at the 2025 ARKAST Awards, the biggest podcasting event in Arkansas.
TrizCom Public Relations receives the 2025 PRSA Dallas Pegasus Award Best of Show and the Pegasus Award for Events and Observances for its work on the Peppa Pig Theme Park Dallas/Fort Worth Grand Opening... Violet PR is recognized with two Pyramid Awards from PRSA's New Jersey Chapter... LDWW founding partner and president Ken Luce is named PR Professional of the Year by PRSA/Dallas.
Ruder Finn CEO Kathy Bloomgarden is inducted into the International Communications Consultancy Organization’s Hall of Fame... The New York Financial Writers’ Association presents Bloomberg News editor-at-large Marty Schenker with its 49th Elliott V. Bell Award... 5WPR racks up five wins at the 2025 MarCom Awards.
The New York Financial Writers’ Association awards its 2025 Impact Award for Distinguished Financial Journalism to STAT News for "Denied by AI," a four-part series reported by Casey Ross and Bob Herman... (W)right On Communications president and founder Julie Wright receives the 2025 Andy Mace Award for Outstanding Contribution in Public Relations by the San Diego Press Club... Ghidotti, a Little Rock-based public relations and content marketing agency, earned five international honors at the 2025 Public Relations Global Network Best Practice Awards.
In accepting the top honor at PRSA's ICON conference in Washington, D.C. this week, HUNTER CEO Grace Leong stressed that the greatest threat to truth isn't the lies we can spot, but the comforting myths we choose to believe.
