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Reimagine in amNewYork, Metro
October 11, 2018
Check out stories today on Reimagine End of Life in New York City in Metro (Reimagine End of Life celebrates all things death and dying ) and amNewYork (Citywide Reimagine End of Life festival ask hard questions about life and death).
Reimagine in artnet
October 03, 2018
artnet’s Sarah Cascone took an in-depth look today at the dozens of visual and performance art events taking place during the Reimagine End of Life festival in New York City.
Waave expands citywide
September 28, 2018
Waave this week expanded to all five boroughs. Check out the coverage in amNew York, Metro, Curbed, and Patch.
Reimagine End of Life in NY Times
September 24, 2018
PKPR placed an exclusive in The New York Times announcing the first Reimagine End of Life, a citywide festival exploring questions about life and death taking October 27 - November 3. Check out the article - Festival in New York will look at death from many angles - and this preview video for what’s in store.
Examining Life Outcomes Among Graduates of Hispanic Serving Institutions
September 15, 2018
A report released by Excelencia in Education and Gallup revealed that Latino graduates of Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) with inclusive environments and strong support systems are more likely than the general college-education population to have fulfilling professional, personal, and social lives.
Coverage of the announcement included The Chronicle of Higher Education, NBC News, Inside Higher Ed, The Hechinger Report, Education Dive, Hoy Los Angeles, Diverse, Issues in Higher Education, and Working Nation.
Waave launches in NYC
August 29, 2018
Starting this month, New York City yellow taxis in Manhattan will offer upfront fares before passengers hail a trip via Waave, the first smartphone app of its kind approved by the Taxi and Limousine Commission as part of a two-year pilot program.
PKPR secured coverage in The New York Post, Crain’s New York Business, WCBS-TV News, Cheddar, PIX 11 News, News 12 - The Bronx, Curbed, El Diario, and 6 Sq. Ft..
Trint gets rave reviews in PCMag and Poynter
August 22, 2018
The critics have tested the competition and they are singling Trint out as the best transcription app on the market. Poynter said Trint is “the best all-around automatic transcription tool for journalists”, and PCMag called Trint a “slick automated transcription service with good editing software”.
Trint announces partnerships with AP, Adobe
August 08, 2018
Trint in on a roll. Associated Press video journalists across the globe will now use Trint to transcribe recorded interviews and events for use in the video and text news reports and Trint has partnered with Adobe to provide automated transcriptions and captions for video through Adobe Premiere Pro CC.
PKPR secured coverage of Trint’s new partnerships in The Drum, Digital Trends, Digital Photography Review, The Broadcast Bridge, and TV News Check
John Irving honored by Dayton Literary Peace Prize
July 23, 2018
John Irving, the author of novels such as “The World According to Garp” and “The Cider House Rules” that examine the complexities of sexual differences and other social issues is this year’s winner of the Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Award, organizers of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize announced this week. Coverage included Associated Press, The Boston Globe, Chicago Sun-Times, and The Toronto Star.
EHRP’s Ehrenreich and Quart in Vogue
July 18, 2018
Check out this awesome interview with Barbara Ehrenreich and Alissa Quart about the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.
Schlossberg on Buckminster Fuller in Metropolis
July 17, 2018
As a result of PKPR’s outreach, Metropolis Magazine published an article by ESI Design founder Edwin Schlossberg on how his collaboration with Buckminster Fuller in the late 1960s continues to shape his groundbreaking work in the field of experience design.
Alexander Heffner on Morning Joe
July 04, 2018
PKPR booked Alexander Heffner on Morning Joe to discuss his new book, A Documentary History of the United States, and how Trump’s presidency is testing democratic norms.
EHRP editor Alissa Quart on Morning Joe
July 02, 2018
PKPR booked Alissa Quart, executive editor of Economic Hardship Reporting Project, on Morning Joe this morning to discuss her new book Squeezed: Why Our Families Can’t Afford America. Watch her segment here.
Richard Attias discusses G7 Summit on Fox Business
June 11, 2018
Richard Attias appeared on Fox Business today to discuss the fallout from G7 Summit and the North Korea summit in Singapore.
Albertine Prize in AP
June 06, 2018
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Not One Day by Anne Garréta, an intimate and sometimes bitter recounting of past lovers written under the strict constraint of producing one chapter per day, has received the 2018 Albertine Prize. The $10,000 prize, chosen by American readers nationwide, honors the favorite French-language fiction title that has been translated into English and distributed in the US in the past year. Check out the exclusive PKPR placed in the AP today.
CityLab on Theatre of the Oppressed’s new space
May 10, 2018
CityLab today published the amazing true story of how Theatre of the Oppressed NYC purchased a $3 million space in the heart of NYC’s Theater District for just $25,000.
50/50 Day on NowThis
May 02, 2018
Two NowThis videos on 50/50 Day, a global day of action and conversation about gender equality on April 26, 2018, garnered over 120,000 views in just two days. The videos included one on the mission of 50/50 Day and another featuring an interview with Jada Pinkett Smith, who participated in 50/50 Day’s live webcast.
EHRP Launches Fund For Laid Off Journalists
April 24, 2018
In the wake of major layoffs at The Denver Post, The Economic Hardship Reporting Project (EHRP) announced a fund to enable reporters and photographers laid off by the newspaper to produce feature-length stories about growing economic inequality, both in Colorado and America.
Coverage included stories in Columbia Journalism Review, Poynter, NiemanLab, The American Press Institute, and Westword
Parcast profiled by New York Times
April 16, 2018
PKPR placed an exclusive profile in The New York Times on how upstart podcast network Parcast has become a true crime and history podcast hit factory rivaling big players like NPR and Gimlet. The headline says it all: Pulp Nonfiction: Podcasts Go Mass-Market.
Mozilla unveils 2018 Internet Health Report
April 11, 2018
On the same day that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified in Congress, Mozilla launched its 2018 Internet Health Report. The report puts a spotlight on three major issues impacting the health of the internet: the growing power of big tech companies like Facebook and Google; the broken online advertising economy and its role in propagating fake news; and the challenge of ensuring the securing of the estimated 30 billion connected devices coming online by 2020.
PKPR secured extensive coverage for the launch of the report including interviews for Mozilla’s Mark Surman on NPR’s Marketplace, The World, and CBC’s Spark, as well as in-depth coverage in Wired, Fast Company, Ars Technica, PCMag, Geek, San Jose Mercury News, VentureBeat, ExtremeTech, Salon, Entrepreneur, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Cheddar, Axios, Mediapost, The Next Web, and ZDNet.