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Dan Fukushima and Sheryl Connelly will join Ray Day, PRSA Board of Directors member, in an important conversation at 12:45 p.m. ET on Friday, October 15.

PRSA College of Fellows today announced that Bob Frause, APR, Fellow PRSA, of Langley, Washington, received its highest honor, the Outstanding Leadership Award, presented for only the second time since it was first presented in 2009.

She was honored as a Female Thought Leader of the Year in the Government or Non-Profit Category.

The individual awards will be presented virtually during ICON 2021 from October 4-20.

The panel will discuss the state of DE&I and what communicators can do to better engage Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) in the profession.

On October 19 at 1:30 p.m. ET, Radocchia will examine blockchain – and more broadly, decentralization – as the future backbone or “operating system” for emergent technologies in every industry.

The keynote panel is composed of leading public affairs practitioners from the Department of Veterans Affairs, the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Army, and the U.S. Air Force.

The keynote panel will features top communications executives from Microsoft Corporation, Phillip Morris International and Pfizer Inc.

Zuckerberg, who will speak on October 7 at 1:35 p.m. ET, joins previously announced speaker and award-winning journalist Yamiche Alcindor as a keynote speaker.

Following thoughtful consideration, PRSA has come to the decision that it will no longer be possible to move forward with an in-person ICON 2021 in October due to the ongoing situation with COVID-19 and the continued outbreak of cases across the country.

Michelle Egan, APR, Fellow PRSA, was nominated as PRSA 2022 Chair-elect. Delegates of the membership will vote on the nominees and any petitioning candidates at the annual PRSA Leadership Assembly on Saturday, October 16, in Orlando, Florida.

The directory allows users to find practitioners based on industry and communications capabilities, size, location, designations, diversity, client experience and more.

They join more than 350 leading professionals and educators, each of whom has left a significant footprint on the public relations profession.

Honored in the Industry Innovator category for her work with PRSA, this is the second time in as many years Olson has been named to the distinguished list of female communicators.

Business Insider reported that Blade Air Mobility’s public relations representative over the three years leading up to its going public in January did not exist. What Blade did was unethical, and it doesn’t take a public relations professional to know that.

PRSA, the nation’s leading professional organization serving the communications community, today presented its 2021 Public Relations Professional of the Year Award to The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Audience Reach and Engagement Team for its efforts to help elevate the School’s important work surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dear Editor: On behalf of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) and its 19,000-plus members I’d like to thank reporter Elahe Izadi for her June 4 article, “The New Journalism—and the PR Firms Behind It.” It is vital to the public interest to call out misrepresentations perpetrated by ersatz “news” sites and the so-called “PR” organizations behind them.

She is a White House Correspondent for “PBS NewsHour,” Moderator of “Washington Week,” and NBC and MSNBC Political Contributor.

This year’s Bateman Case Study Competition challenged students to craft a public relations campaign focused on reversing the corrosion of civility in American life and fostering more constructive and inclusive public discourse in all corners of society.

PRSA, the nation’s leading professional organization serving the communications community, announced today the 2021 winners of the Bronze Anvil Awards, which recognize the best of the best in public relations tactics — the use of social media, video, blogs, podcasts, annual reports, digital newsletters, websites — that contribute to the success of overall programs or campaigns.