McNeely Pigott & Fox won Best in Show honors at PRSA Nashville's annual Parthenon Awards April 23 in the Music City, earning kudos for its "Red, White and Food" campaign supporting a voter referendum to allow wine sales in Tennessee retail food stores.
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The get-out-the-vote campaign, backed by retail food stores, saw the measure pass in all 78 municipalities where it appeared on the ballot statewide. MP&F beat six other entries for the top award and survived a tie-breaking vote.
DVL Seigenthaler, fresh off its acquisition by Finn Partners, took home 39 Parthenons, followed by MP&F's 28 and Dollar General with 20. Lovell Communications made a solid showing with eight Parthenons. [Full list of winners]
The chapter awarded Bonnie Reichert, prof. of PR at Belmont Univ., its 2015 Olympus Award for leadership and management of PRSA Nashville in 2014, while Katie Adkisson, VP of accounts for Reed PR, won the Mercury Award for young professionals.
Washington Women in PR recognized outstanding women in communications aged 25-35 at its annual Emerging Leaders Awards June 25 at the AT&T Forum in Washington, D.C.
Washington Women in Public Relations has released the list of finalists from agencies, corporations, nonprofits, government and trade associations throughout the Washington, D.C. from which winners will be picked at the group's Emerging Leaders Awards June 25 at the AT&T Forum in downtown D.C.
Publicis Groupe Chief Strategy Officer Carla Serrano called on the 475 gathered for the 59th Annual Matrix Awards May 19th at NYC's Ziegfeld Ballroom to not let the night "be another awards ceremony" and make it "a moment where we refuse to be edited out, not now, not for AI, not ever."
MikeWorldwide came out on top in the PR category at The 24th Annual American Business Awards... Story Partners and the Washingtonian presented PBS senior correspondent Judy Woodruff with The Hall of Fame Award at the 13th Annual Washington Women in Journalism Awards... The LAGRANT Foundation, in celebration of its 28th anniversary, is awarding 19 scholarships to students nationwide for its Healthcare Marketing and Communications Scholarship Program.
