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Gainesville, Fla. – The Institute for Public Relations (IPR) Board of Trustees has elected Mohammad Hamid as the director of the IPR Measurement Commission for 2020-2021. Hamid will succeed the Cision Chief Insights Officer Mark Weiner, current director and a founding member of the Measurement Commission. Hamid is currently the Managing Partne ...

Gainesville, Fla. – The Institute for Public Relations is thrilled to announce the addition of four new Trustees to its Board: Jerilan Greene Jerilan Greene is the Global Chief Communications and Public Affairs Officer of Yum! Brands, Inc., parent company of the iconic KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell brands with more than 48,000 restaurants in 14 ...

Download Flyer (PDF): Bridge 2020 Call for Submissions For more information about the conference (including sponsorship opportunities), please visit our 2020 Bridge Conference event page. Watch the full 2019 recap video: Visit YouTube Here Watch the full 2018 recap video: Visit YouTube Here. The Institute for Public Relations is hosting the t ...

New York, NY, September 18, 2019 – The Institute for Public Relations (IPR) has released a new logo and brand narrative to signify its growth and a future focused on creating, curating, and promoting research and insights that empower public relations and communication professionals. Created by Ketchum, the new logo with a refreshed typeface a ...

New York, NY – The Institute for Public Relations (IPR) will award Lynn M. Zoch, Ph.D., professor emerita at Virginia’s Radford University the IPR Pathfinder Award at the 2019 Annual Distinguished Lecture & Awards Dinner on November 19 at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City. IPR gives this lifetime achievement award annually to an indiv ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Institute for Public Relations will award Katie Delahaye Paine, Publisher and CEO at Paine Publishing, the prestigious IPR Jack Felton Medal for Lifetime Achievement, an award made for lifetime contributions in the advancement of research, measurement and evaluation in public relations and corporate communication. Paine ...

Gainesville, Fla. – The Institute for Public Relations is thrilled to announce the addition of two new Trustees to its Board: Charlene Wheeless, Principal Vice President of Global Corporate Affairs for Bechtel; and Matt Bianco, Head of Corporate Public Affairs for Novelis. Charlene A. Wheeless is principal vice president of global corporate a ...

New York, NY – Andy Polansky, Chairman and CEO of Constituency Management Group and Executive Chairman of Weber Shandwick, will receive the 2019 Institute for Public Relations Alexander Hamilton Medal for Lifetime Achievement. Polansky will accept the Institute’s highest honor and speak at the IPR Annual Distinguished Lecture & Awards Dinn ...

The inaugural 2019 Institute for Public Relations Disinformation in Society Report reveals more than half of Americans encounter deliberately misleading or biased information at least once a day. New York, NY, – Sixty-three percent of Americans view disinformation—deliberately biased and misleading information—as a “major” problem in soc ...

Gainesville, Fla., May 1, 2019 -- Mark Leibovich, chief national correspondent for The New York Times Magazine and New York Times bestselling author, has been named the 2019 Institute for Public Relations Distinguished Lecturer. He will speak at the 2019 IPR Annual Distinguished Lecture and Awards Dinner, IPR’s biggest fundraiser, on November 1 ...