PKPR News
Designing Justice’s TED Talk
March 28, 2018
Stop what you are doing and watch Deanna Van Buren’s TED Talk: What a World Without Prisons Could Look Like.
50/50 Day co-founder pens CNN op-ed
March 08, 2018
50/50 Day co-founder Tiffany Shlain penned an op-ed for CNN on how schools, news media, and entertainment industry have failed to tell the full history of women leaders.
Mozilla in Fast Company, TechCrunch
March 08, 2018
Mozilla and the National Science Foundation are awarding $2 million in funding for projects that will help get people online after disasters or that connect isolated rural, Tribal, and urban communities that lack reliable Internet access in the first place. Coverage ranged from a fantastic Fast Company profile of a Detroit project that is bringing broadband to low-income neighborhoods to TechCrunch to StateScoop.
ESI’s Schlossberg on Design Matters
March 05, 2018
Put on your earphones and listen to this fascinating interview with ESI Design founder Edwin Schlossberg on Design Matters with Debbie Millman.
Putin portrait grabs global headlines
February 05, 2018
A seven-foot-high portrait of Vladimir Putin composed of thousands of spent bullet casings from the Eastern Ukraine war front was among the highlights of a large-scale multimedia exhibit at the Ukrainian Institute of America debuting last week. Coverage of the exhibit included CNN, Newsweek, Time Out New York, am New York, Untapped Cities, Secret NYC, and Metro New York.
Reuters, Crain’s cover women’s leadership initiative
February 02, 2018
More than 100 business leaders from Canada, France, and the United States gathered at the New York Stock Exchange in New York City for the Women in Corporate Leadership Initiative, a conference organized by the Consulates General of Canada and France in New York, the Economic Club of New York and Richard Attias and Associates. Coverage of the event, which focused on initiatives aimed at increasing women in corporate leadership roles, included Reuters, Crain’s New York Business, and Cheddar.
ESI in Engadget, Designboom
January 31, 2018
515 North State Street, Chicago, for Beacon Capital Partners, by ESI Design from ESI Design on Vimeo.
Engadget, Designboom, Web Urbanist, Interesting Engineering, and Urdesign take a look at how ESI Design reimagines the traditional office lobby by using algorithms to create trippy art that is wowing workers and visitors alike.
Trint founder in Lifehacker’s How I Work
January 17, 2018
PKPR secured a great interview with Trint founder and CEO Jeff Kofman for Lifehacker’s How I Work.
Tenement Museum launches Your Story, Our Story
January 16, 2018
The Tenement Museum launched Your Story, Our Story, an online exhibit featuring 3,000 family objects shared by Americans that tells their personal stories of immigration and migration. PKPR secured coverage for this launch in outlets including EdScoop, Food52, The Asbury Park Press , and Eater.
SWAAY founder named Rising Star by Ozy
January 15, 2018
PKPR placed a profile of SWAAY Media founder Iman Oubou in Ozy, which highlighted her as one of its Rising Stars.
Mozilla reveals gifts that snoop
December 22, 2017
Connected devices and toys like the Amazon Echo and Hello Barbie are on track to be this season’s hottest gifts. But how can shoppers make sure they’re buying gadgets that aren’t going to spy on their kids or get their friends hacked?
Building on its mission to help consumers protect their privacy and security, Mozilla released Privacy Not Included*, a first of its kind buyer’s guide that makes the privacy and security features of Internet-connected products as clear as their price. Check out coverage in CBS News, Slate, CSO, CNET, ABC News - San Francisco, and Albuquerque Journal.
Tenement Museum shapes immigration debate
December 22, 2017
With immigration dominating the national debate, PKPR worked with The Tenement Museum to develop a thought leadership strategy positioning the museum as a voice providing historical context on immigration. Over the past four months, we have placed two op-eds by the museum’s President Kevin Jennings in The Hill (Trump must not break America’s tradition of immigration and Thank Immigrants for your “American” Christmas), as well as The Daily News (”Italy was once a ‘s**thole’ country”) and Newsweek (A War on Christmas? What Christmas Are You Talking About?) The museum’s Vice President of Marketing and Communications, David Eng, also wrote a powerful first-person essay for Vice News (I Forgot I Was A Refugee).
Using art for urban planning
December 22, 2017
Cities looking to engage the public in urban planning are ditching traditional town meetings in favor of eye-catching, artist-designed tools like a mobile sign shop, a really big table, transportable photo studio with built-in darkrooms, and a pop-up ping pong table.
It’s all part of Ready/Go, an online marketplace created by Springboard for the Arts where local governments, organizations and community groups can hire artists who have created whimsical art installations designed to engage people in conversations and interaction.
PKPR secured coverage for the innovative program in a range of outlets including Governing Magazine, CityLab, and PSFK.
Mozilla on Slate’s If Then Podcast
December 20, 2017
Mozilla Foundation’s Executive Director Mark Surman appeared on this week’s episode of Slate’s If Then podcast to how Mozilla is working to build a healthier Internet by engaging consumers in issues like Net Neutrality and encouraging manufacturers to build privacy features into connected devices.
Trint reveals which politicians are best speakers
December 15, 2017
Which politicians are the best speakers?
To demonstrate how accurate automated speech recognition has become, Trint tested its speech-to-text algorithm on President Donald Trump and 14 other U.S. politicians. United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Senator Chuck Schumer topped the list, while Trump came in at #11. The results generated coverage in outlets including Business Insider, Fox News, Metro, The State, and more.
SWAAY founder on Harry Connick Jr. Show
December 07, 2017
SWAAY Media founder Iman Oubou appeared on the Harry Connick Jr. Show today to discuss how she set out to change the way women are portrayed in the media.
Tenement Museum Opens New Exhibit
November 07, 2017
With immigration dominating the national conversation, a major new permanent exhibit opening at The Tenement Museum this month is immersing visitors in the lives of three immigrant and migrant families from different corners of the world—China, Puerto Rico, and Poland—who all lived in the same New York City apartment building during the 1950s to 2014.
PKPR organized a press preview tour of the exhibit attended by 20 journalists. Coverage highlights include: NBC News, CityLab, Tablet, Untapped Cities, The New York Times, The Forward, Sinovision, Splinter, am New York, Bowery Boogie, and Viewing NYC.
Tenement Bedrooms in am New York
November 06, 2017
Check out reporter Stav Ziv’s terrific preview in today’s am New York of the Tenement Museum’s new evening series offering an intimate look at what happened in the tiny tenement bedrooms, the setting for sex, childbirth, prostitution, and more.
Telly Awards Unveil New Branding and Mission
November 03, 2017
The Telly Awards unveiled new branding and leadership, the first steps in a series of significant changes to revitalize the 38-year-old award for the multi-screen era. As part of the kickoff of this new chapter, The Telly Awards revealed a new mission statement: “Honoring excellence in video and television across all screens.”
Coverage included Animation World Network, Studio Daily, and Reel Chicago
Mozilla on BBC Marketplace Morning Report
October 30, 2017
Mozilla Foundation executive director Mark Surman appeared on BBC Marketplace Morning Report, which airs on public radio stations throughout the U.S., to discuss the state of Internet health and what Mozilla is doing to fight fake news, online harassment, privacy breaches, and more.