Echoing Green
For more than 30 years, Echoing Green has been on the front lines of solving the world’s biggest problems, raising up the transformational leaders willing to speak truth to power and challenge the status quo. The organization finds emerging leaders with the best ideas for social innovation as early as possible, and sets them on a path to lifelong impact. Echoing Green’s community of nearly 1,000 social innovators includes past Fellows like First Lady Michelle Obama, the founders of organizations like Teach For America and One Acre Fund, and public figures like Van Jones. Built and refined over three decades, Echoing Green discovers tomorrow’s leaders, today, and then funds, connects, and supports a new generation of social impact leaders.
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Echoing Green on The Today Show
Sep. 06, 2019
A 2019 Echoing Green Fellow, Antoine Patton is a 32-year-old father who taught himself to code while he was incarcerated and then developed an app with his 13-year-old daughter that makes it easier for kids to communicate with their incarcerated parents.
As a result of PKPR’s work, Antoine and his daughter Jay Jay, as well as Echoing Green President Cheryl Dorsey, were featured in an amazing segment on The Today Show. It was part of Lester Holt’s Justice for All series looking at the state of justice in America.
Echoing Green announced 2019 Fellows
Jul. 01, 2019
PKPR helped facilitate the announcement of the 2019 Echoing Green Fellows, the Fellowship program that counts former First Lady Michelle Obama, CNN host Van Jones, and Teach for America founder Wendy Kopp.
The Echoing Green Fellowship provides unrestricted seed funding of up to $90,000, training, and programmatic support for two years, as well as lifelong access into a global network of leading philanthropists, investors, and entrepreneurs.
PKPR secured coverage for Black Male Achievement category fellow Antoine Patton in Black Enterprise, Colorlines, and WNYC . Other fellow coverage included Philanthropy News Digest, Inside Philanthropy, Revolt TV4, Impact Alpha, and Crain’s Cleveland Business.
Live in the Grey
Live in the Grey helps executives and employees at companies like Pepsi and IEX boost their emotional intelligence and work from a more authentic place through experiential learning and development.
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Live in the Grey in Fast Company
Nov. 04, 2016
PKPR secured an opportunity for Live in the Grey to host a workshop during the Fast Company Innovation Festival. At the event, festival-goers used Live in the Grey’s custom-designed deck of 72 cards to identify what they value most in their personal and professional lives. Check out the FastCo coverage of the event: This Card Game Can Help Make Your Work More Meaningful.
Life@Work in PSFK, The Muse
Aug. 12, 2016
PKPR worked with Live in the Grey on the first-ever Life@Work Culture Conference, a two-day retreat in rural Hudson Valley that brought together workplace innovators from Warby Parker, Google, Johnson & Johnson, VaynerMedia, SumAll, and more.
Coverage included:
- PSFK: How Professional Development Gets Personal
- The Muse: How the Best Companies Out There Attract the Talent They Want
- EFC: Don’t be fake: How IEX’s “Flash Boys” boost employee morale
- New York Business Journal: Life@Work attendees to talk workplace culture around the campfire
- Business News Daily: Summertime Slump: Keeping Employees Motivated
Alexander Heffner
Alexander Heffner is the host of the PBS series The Open Mind and the co-author of “A Documentary History of the United States,” a collection of the most important speeches and documents in American history that has sold more than one million copies.
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Alex Heffner on MSNBC
Feb. 09, 2019
PKPR secured an appearance for Alexander Heffner, host of PBS’ The Open Mind, on PoliticsNation to discuss Elizabeth Warren’s presidential kickoff and the leadership crisis in Virginia.
Keepsake Frames
Keepsake lets you easily turn any photo on your phone into a beautiful, professionally framed print for as low as $25. It is the highest-rated photo framing app in the App Store, The New York Times calls Keepsake framed photos “fast, affordable and good-looking.”
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Keepsake in Real Simple
Jan. 12, 2019
Keepsake is featured in the February 2018 issue of Real Simple as one of the month’s most clever items to simplify your life.
Keepsake Scores a Trifecta in BuzzFeed
Dec. 03, 2018
PKPR secured not one, not two, but three placements for Keepsake in BuzzFeed’s holiday gift guides.
Keepsake Rave Review in Business Insider
Oct. 19, 2018
PKPR secured a rave review for Keepsake in Business Insider with reporter Brandt Ranj writing: “Keepsake is the first service I’ve tried that makes getting professionally framed photos as simple as uploading them on social media, except the physical prints will last a lifetime.”
On Air Fest
Taking place at The Wythe Hotel, On Air Fest is the only festival of its kind where audio and podcast fans, creators, and industry leaders come together to explore the art of sound through performances, conversations, listening parties, art installations, live podcasts, and more.
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On Air Fest in NY Mag cover story
Mar. 18, 2019
This week’s New York Magazine cover story on the podcast boom features reporting by writer Boris Kaschka from the Hot Pod Summit at On Air Fest.
On Air Fest Draws Standing Room Only Crowds
Mar. 11, 2019
On Air Fest drew standing room only crowds at The Wythe Hotel in Brooklyn this past weekend. Highlights included the first public talk with executives from Spotify and Gimlet and sessions with Roxane Gay, Radiolab’s Jad Abumrad, Tina Brown, Jenna Wortham, and Amber Tamblyn.
The Verge (”Spotify’s Grand Plan for Podcasts is Taking Shape”). Fast Company (”Why Podcasts Fans Will Always Reject ‘Netflix for Podcasts’”), Forbes (”Lessons Learned About Podcasting and Life From Last Weekend’s On Air Fest”), Book Riot (”18 Things I Learned About Roxane Gay at On Air Fest”), Media Village, and Bklyner (”Preserving the Sounds of Brooklyn at On Air Fest”).
On Air Fest in Forbes, Time Out, NYMag, and more
Mar. 01, 2019
Tickets are almost sold out for this weekend’s On Air Fest at The Wythe Hotel with Roxane Gay, Jad Abumrad, Tina Brown, and Tracy K. Smith. Check out some of the preview stories in:
Time Out New York, NYMag, HyperAllergic, Forbes, Bello Collective, Metro, am New York, PureWow, Brooklyn Paper, Untapped Cities, What Should We Do?, Bklyner, and Brightest Young Things.
FastCo: On Air Fest is “a podcast fan’s dream”
Dec. 17, 2018
Tina Brown, Jenna Wortham of the The New York Times’ Still Processing, United States poet laureate Tracy K. Smith, and Missing Richard Simmons’ creator Dan Taberski are among the headliners announced today for On Air Fest 2019. Taking place at Brooklyn’s Wythe Hotel from February 28 - March 3, 2019, On Air Fest brings audio fans and creators together to explore the art of sound through performances, conversations, listening parties, art installations, live podcasts, and more.
PKPR placed an exclusive story today in Fast Company, which called the 2019 lineup “a podcast fan’s dream.”
Excelencia in Education
Excelencia in Education accelerates Latino student success in higher education by promoting Latino student achievement, conducting analysis to inform educational policies, and advancing institutional practices while collaborating with those committed and ready to meet the mission. Launched in 2004 in the nation’s capital, Excelencia is building a network of results-oriented educators and policymakers to address the U.S. economy’s need for a highly educated workforce and engaged civic leadership.
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Seal of Excelencia Launches
Oct. 18, 2018
More than 60 leaders of higher education and Latino advocacy institutions and organizations this week endorsed The Seal of Excelencia, a major national initiative announced today by Excelencia in Education aimed at significantly increasing the number of Latino students attaining college degrees by 2030. Coverage of the announcement included Inside Higher Ed, Dallas Morning News, Community College Daily, Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, The Hechinger Report, and Hispanic Outlook on Education.
Examining Life Outcomes Among Graduates of Hispanic Serving Institutions
Sep. 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.
Reimagine End of Life
Reimagine End of Life is a week of asking big questions about life and death.
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Reimagine in The New Yorker
Jan. 14, 2019
At a Reimagine End of Life workshop, writer Mallory Rice discovered the secrets of composing the perfect condolence letter. She shared them in a Talk of the Town piece in this week’s issue of The New Yorker.
Reimagine in December issue of World Magazine
Dec. 05, 2018
Check out this in-depth feature story in the December issue of World Magazine - “Memento mori: A citywide reckoning with death in New York shows Americans may be ready to talk about a topic they once sought to avoid”
At Reimagine: an art installation at 9/11 Memorial
Nov. 02, 2018
As part of Reimagine End of Life, artist Day Schildkret and New Yorkers of all ages created a large scale art installation made of natural and man-made items collected from around the 9/11 Memorial Plaza. Check out the beautiful photos and interview with Schildkret in today’s am New York.
NYC Hosts a Festival About Death
Oct. 27, 2018
A weeklong festival exploring big questions about life and death will unfold not just in theaters and concerts halls across New York City’s five boroughs next week, but also in hospitals, libraries, houses of worship, senior centers, and even cemeteries as part of the first Reimagine End of Life New York.
PKPR secured preview stories in national, international, and local media including Quartz, La Vanguardia, Time Out New York, The New York Times, BrooklynVegan, and Untapped Cities.
Reimagine End of Life on WNYC
Oct. 26, 2018
Brad Wolfe, the founder of Reimagine End of Life, appeared on WNYC’s All of It with Alison Stewart today to discuss the weeklong festival that kicks off tomorrow in NYC. Listen here.
Reimagine in amNewYork, Metro
Oct. 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
Oct. 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.
Reimagine End of Life in NY Times
Sep. 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.
Waave
Created for New Yorkers by New Yorkers, Waave is the first ride-hailing app that enables New York City yellow and greeen taxis to provide upfront fares, surge-free pricing, and an estimated time of arrival before passengers hail a trip via their the Waave smartphone app. By choosing Waave, New Yorkers who care about the future of their city can play a vital role in reducing congestion and pollution while enhancing the well-being of the city’s taxi drivers and public transit system.
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Waave expands citywide
Sep. 28, 2018
Waave this week expanded to all five boroughs. Check out the coverage in amNew York, Metro, Curbed, and Patch.
Waave launches in NYC
Aug. 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..
Parcast
Since 2016, Parcast has launched ten hit podcast series including Cults (on NPR’s 2017 Ultimate Holiday Podcast Wishlist) and Unsolved Murders (named one of the best true crime podcasts of 2017 by BuzzFeed).
Parcast produces scripted podcasts that explore topics ranging from true crime to history to unadulterated fairy tales. This model has enabled the network to scale quickly, streamline production, keep overhead costs low with just a full-time staff of 13, and stay on track to hit 100 million downloads in 2018. Parcast was co-founded by Max Cutler, 27, and his father Ron Cutler, a veteran radio producer who started Cutler Comedy Networks, the number one comedy service for radio morning shows in America in the 1990’s, carried by 2000 stations in all of the top 200 markets.
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Parcast’s Max Cutler on Forbes 30 Under 30 2019
Nov. 13, 2018
Congratulations to Max Cutler, founder of Parcast, who was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for 2019.
Forbes writes: “Max Cutler launched Parcast in 2016, aiming to give a mainstream audience an alternative to the podcast market’s quirky comedians and NPR imitators. Parcast’s first two series, “Unsolved Murders” and “Remarkable Lives, Tragic Deaths,” quickly found success, and the network plans to have launched at least 21 shows by the end of March, with 20 being active.”
Parcast profiled by New York Times
Apr. 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.
Designing Justice + Designing Spaces
Designing Justice+ Designing Spaces engages communities in the design and development of new buildings, spaces, and tools to attack the root causes of mass incarceration: poverty, racism, lack of access to resources.
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DJDS is Designing an End to Mass Incarceration
Oct. 30, 2019
On the heels of the opening of Restore Oakland, the social justice campus designed by Designing Justice + Designing Spaces (DJDS), PKPR has secured a series of profiles looking at how the firm is using design to end mass incarceration.
Recent profiles include The Architect’s Newspaper (”Designing Justice + Designing Spaces builds infrastructure to end mass incarceration”), Curbed (”Can a building help end mass incarceration?”), and Archinect (”Architect Deanna Van Buren on Designing Beautiful Spaces That Amplify Self-Care, Love, Restoration, and Respect”).
Restore Oakland in CityLab, Architectural Digest
Sep. 05, 2019
In 2017, PKPR client Deanna Van Buren delivered a TED Talk - What a World Without Prisons Could Look Like— that has been viewed more than one million times. This month, her vision moves closer to reality with the opening of Restore Oakland, a 20,000 square foot center in Oakland’s Fruitvale neighborhood that is home to one of the nation’s first spaces dedicated to restorative justice.
Restorative justice brings together the victim and the perpetrator to resolve the harm caused. Restore Oakland will work with the Alameda County District Attorney’s office to divert cases involving people aged 15 to 24 into the restorative justice program. The process takes place outside of traditional courthouses and government buildings, which tend to be windowless, oppressive, and punitive. At Restore Oakland, the Restorative Justice Rooms are painted in a peaceful and calming sky blue, there are multiple large windows, and chairs are arranged in a circle in the tradition of peace circles used by many Native American cultures.
PKPR secured coverage for the opening in The Atlantic’s CityLab, Architectural Digest, YES! Magazine, and Common Dreams.
Economic Hardship Reporting Project
The Economic Hardship Reporting Project, a journalism nonprofit founded in 2012 by Barbara Ehrenreich, aims to change the national conversation around poverty and economic insecurity. The stories that EHRP commissions—from narrative features to photo essays and video productions—put a human face on financial instability. EHRP has placed its contributors’ reportage and photojournalism at The New York Times, NBC News, Politico, The Verge, Vox, Vogue, The Atlantic, The New Yorker and many others.
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EHRP in American Prospect fall issue
Oct. 18, 2018
PKPR placed a 3,000-word feature on the Economic Hardship Reporting Project in the fall 2018 print issue of The American Prospect. You can read the article here.
EHRP’s Ehrenreich and Quart in Vogue
Jul. 18, 2018
Check out this awesome interview with Barbara Ehrenreich and Alissa Quart about the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.
EHRP Launches Fund For Laid Off Journalists
Apr. 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
Ukrainian Institute of America
The Ukrainian Institute of America, Inc. is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the art, music and literature of Ukraine and the Ukrainian diaspora. It serves both as a center for the Ukrainian-American community and as America’s “Window on Ukraine,” hosting art exhibits, concerts, film screenings, poetry readings, literary evenings, children’s programs, lectures, symposia, and full educational programs, all open to the public.
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Putin portrait grabs global headlines
Feb. 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.
SWAAY Media
SWAAY is a fast-growing online platform for women entrepreneurs. Iman Oubou launched SWAAY in April 2017 to provide a fresh and stylish voice that speaks directly to today’s generation of women entrepreneurs and leaders. Over the past six months, Oubou has steadily built an audience for SWAAY, putting it on track to hit 500,000 unique monthly visitors by December 2017. Oubou’s podcast, Entrepreneurs En Vogue, syndicated by the WestWood One network, draws over 200,000 listeners each week.
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SWAAY founder named Rising Star by Ozy
Jan. 15, 2018
PKPR placed a profile of SWAAY Media founder Iman Oubou in Ozy, which highlighted her as one of its Rising Stars.
The Tenement Museum
The Tenement Museum tells the story of American immigration. It has become one of New York City’s preeminent cultural and educational institutions, welcoming more than 238,000 visitors in 2016. Its two historic tenements on Orchard Street were home to an estimated 15,000 people from more than 20 nations between 1863 and 2000. Educators guide visitors and help them understand how immigrants weathered hard times and built new lives.
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Tenement Museum launches Your Story, Our Story
Jan. 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.
Tenement Museum shapes immigration debate
Dec. 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).
Tenement Museum Opens New Exhibit
Nov. 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
Nov. 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.
Tenement Museum names new president
Jun. 21, 2017
The Tenement Museum announced this week that Kevin Jennings, the co-founder of GLSEN and a Department of Education official under President Obama, has been named the new president of the cultural and educational institution dedicated to telling the story of American immigration through the personal accounts of immigrant families.
PKPR placed an exclusive on the announcement in The New York Times and secured stories in outlets including the Associated Press, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, The Forward, and Crain’s New York Business.
Mozilla Foundation
Mozilla is a nonprofit that believes the Internet must always remain a global public resource, open and accessible to all. Its work is guided by the Mozilla Manifesto. The direct work of the Mozilla Foundation focuses on fueling the movement for an open Internet. Mozilla do this by connecting open Internet leaders with each other and by mobilizing grassroots activists around the world. The Foundation is also the sole shareholder in the Mozilla Corporation, the maker of Firefox and other
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Mozilla’s MozFest Tackles Political Disinformation
Nov. 04, 2019
In an age of deepfakes and disinformation, more than 2,500 activists, policymakers, and technologists gathered in London last week at Mozilla’s MozFest to work on creating a better, healthier, and more humane internet.
PKPR secured an appearance on CNN for Mozilla Fellow Camille François to discuss how she is using machine learning and data analysis to detect foreign interference in the 2020 U.S. election. Other coverage highlights included Quartz (”Did YouTube’s Algorithm Help China’s Anti-Hong Kong Propaganda Go Viral?”), PCMag (”Does YouTube’s Algorithm Lead to Radicalization”), and TechRadar (”Can Facebook ever be kept safe without hurting staff?”).
This Mozilla-Funded Film Watches You
Sep. 26, 2019
Over a year after the approval of a U.S. patent, Snapchat users still don’t know if the app is using facial emotion recognition technology to detect and profit off of their moods. To put pressure on Snapchat, Mozilla premiered “Stealing Ur Feelings,” a short documentary that uses the same technology to analyze viewers’ emotions as they watch it. Check out some of the coverage in Adweek, Engadget, and The Inquirer.
Mozilla Gets Creative to Highlight AI’s Impact
Jun. 18, 2019
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To raise awareness about the unintended consequences of artificial intelligence, Mozilla has funded a series of films, games, and art projects that will be launching over the next few months.
PKPR has secured coverage for the initial projects including:
- A simulation that reveals the hidden biases in dating apps (Wired - This Dating App Exposes the Monstrous Bias of Algorithms; Mashable - “A dating app for literal monsters exposes the bias in our swipes”)
- A whimsical tool that puts a spotlight on automated censorship (The Verge - “Designers built an AI penis detector to protest Google’s prudish doodles”)
- A film that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival exposing the dangers of facial recognition software (Engadget - “An AR film explores the worst tech companies could do with your face”).
Stay tuned for the worldwide launch of the film, Stealing Ur Feelings, online later this summer.
Mozilla on NPR’s Weekend Edition
Dec. 01, 2018
Mozilla’s Ashley Boyd appeared on NPR’s Weekend Edition this morning to discuss Mozilla’s *Privacy Not Included shopping guide.
Mozilla press launch event for privacy study
Nov. 14, 2018
PKPR organized a press event launch today in New York City for Mozilla’s *Privacy Not Included, a research report and shopping guide identifying which connected products are secure and trustworthy — and which aren’t. The goal: help consumers shop for gifts based on not just price and performance but also on how well they protect the privacy and security of their friends and family.
Launch day coverage included CBS News, Wired, Dow Jones MarketWatch, The Verge, Business Insider, Quartz, Gizmodo, Mashable, Techcrunch, Popular Mechanics, The Next Web, CNET, BoingBoing, Engadget, and Cheddar.
Mozilla chats with The Guardian
Nov. 12, 2018
At MozFest in London, The Guardian spoke with former Mozilla fellow Hang Do Thi Duc and Iranian internet researcher Mahsa Alimardani about what they think should be done to rebuild trust in the internet. Listen to their thoughts on The Guardian’s Chips with Everything Podcast here.
Mozilla unveils 2018 Internet Health Report
Apr. 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.
Mozilla in Fast Company, TechCrunch
Mar. 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.
Mozilla on Slate’s If Then Podcast
Dec. 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.
Mozilla leads fight to save net neutrality
May. 25, 2017
Mozilla has been leading the fight against FCC’s vote to repeal the net neutrality protections enacted in 2015. During the week of the FCC’s vote, PKPR secured interviews with Mozilla executive director Mark Surman and Director of Advocacy Ashley Boyd and coverage of Mozilla’s efforts in outlets including Vice News, AP, International Business Times, San Jose Mercury News, Cheddar, Deadline, and Law 360.
eponym
eponym is a New York City-based company that empowers brands like Steven Alan, Alice + Olivia, Jason Wu, and Billy Reid to create, design, and distribute eyewear directly to consumers under their own label.
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eponym in Digiday’s Glossy
Mar. 22, 2017
Glossy, Digiday’s new site covering the fashion industry, published a terrific story today on eponym tied to the launch of the new eyewear collection it created for Alice + Olivia. The headline says it all: How Eponym is carving out a niche in the luxury eyewear market.
Ottavo in Quartz
Mar. 21, 2017
The search for elegant, functional reading glasses is over thanks to the debut today of Ottavo, a new eyewear brand from Eponym specializing in high-quality, handcrafted reading glasses that offer the timeless and effortless chic of Italian design at an accessible price.
Check out this fun story in Quartz on how Ottavo epitomizes the Italian word “sprezzatura,” which can be translated to “studied carelessness.”
eponym founder in WWD
Mar. 06, 2017
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eponym founder Andrew Lipovsky has been sharing his insight on the fashion industry in a series of op-eds for WWD’s Think Tank section. Topics have included why fashion brands must “diversify or die” and why the Luxottica and Essilor merger is bad for fashion brands and even worse for consumers.
Trint
Trint is an automated transcription tool that creates almost instant transcripts that can be quickly and easily edited for fast, accurate and affordable transcription. Backed by funding and support from the Knight Enterprise Fund, the Google Digital News Initiative, and BBC Worldwide Labs, Trint is the first service to combine a text editor and an audio/video player into one easy-to-use tool, making it possible to search recorded content by keywords, verify by re-listening to just that portion of an interview, and edit a transcript to perfection in minutes.
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Trint scores 2020 candidates
Aug. 13, 2019
Bernie Sanders’ accent may sound strange to some people outside of New York, but it doesn’t pose any comprehension problems for artificial intelligence.
In a Trint test of how well AI can understand the 2020 presidential candidates, Sanders landed a perfect score, with AI transcribing all of his words correctly, including recognizing “faw-tee” as “forty” and “pov-a-tee” as “poverty.”
Check out some of the coverage in Metro, Axios, Washington Examiner, and Poynter.
Trint gets rave reviews in PCMag and Poynter
Aug. 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 founder in Lifehacker’s How I Work
Jan. 17, 2018
PKPR secured a great interview with Trint founder and CEO Jeff Kofman for Lifehacker’s How I Work.
Trint reveals which politicians are best speakers
Dec. 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.
Trint in Wired, Quartz, Digital Trends
Apr. 28, 2017
PKPR coordinated a New York City media day for our London-based client Trint, a startup that has created the first automated transcription tool. Founder Jeff Kofman, a former on-air correspondent for ABC and CBS, met with New York reporters for interviews and demos of the product, which led to highly positive reviews and articles in Wired, Quartz, Digital Trends, Mediashift, and MediaFile.
Bernard-Henri Lévy
Bernard-Henri Lévy is a philosopher, activist, and filmmaker. His most recent book, The Genius of Judaism, was published in January 2017 by Random House. New York Times Bestsellers include American Vertigo, Barbarism with a Human Face, and Who Killed Daniel Pearl?
Visit the Bernard-Henri Lévy Website →
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Bernard-Henri Lévy in Newsweek and Mic
Apr. 21, 2017
On the eve of the first round of French presidential election this weekend, PKPR coordinated an interview with Bernard-Henri Lévy with Mic co-founder and editor at large Jake Horowitz and placed an op-ed by Lévy in Newsweek - Why I Shall Be Voting for Macron.
Bernard-Henri Lévy Op-Ed on CNN
Feb. 23, 2017
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PKPR placed an op-ed on CNN today by French author and philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy on the Trump administration’s response to the rise in anti-Semitism in the United States.
ESC Games
ESC Games is the creator of ESC Game Theater, a first-of-its-kind, high-tech venue where up to 30 people play wildly fun, casual games on a massive screen in a room pulsing with lights, special effects, music and energy.
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BuzzFeed visits ESC Game Theater
Mar. 14, 2017
BuzzFeed visited the ESC Game Theater. Check out the segment that’s received over 109,000 views.
Artiphon
Designed for music lovers of any skill level, the INSTRUMENT 1 plugs into your iPhone, iPad, or laptop, where it pairs with the Artiphon iOS app and hundreds of music-making apps like GarageBand. In just a few seconds you can be tickling piano keys as if you are drumming, or strumming an otherworldly synth.
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Richard Attias & Associates
Richard Attias & Associates is a strategic consulting firm that helps countries strengthen their economies by attracting foreign investment, jobs and other support. Its founder, Richard Attias, produced the World Economic Forum in Davos from 1995 to 2008 and co-founded the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) and the Nobel Laureates Conference.
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Reuters, Crain’s cover women’s leadership initiative
Feb. 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.
Richard Attias launches Global Positive Forum
Aug. 03, 2017
Richard Attias + French economist Jacques Attali are the co-founders of the first-ever Global Positive Forum in Paris on September 1st. More than 1200 global leaders, including French President Emmanuel Macron, are expected to attend this conference focused on generating long-term solutions to global challenges. Check out stories in Newsweek and HuffPost World Post.
Quartz: Richard Attias’ Africa 2017 economic forecast
Jan. 09, 2017
Richard Attias, a Moroccan native who has spearheaded nation branding initiatives for African countries including Morocco, Egypt, and Congo, talked with Quartz about which African economies he forecasts will thrive in 2017.
CNN: A plan to enhance security + prevent terrorism
Aug. 05, 2016
PKPR placed this op-ed on CNN today by Richard and Cecilia Attias calling for a large-scale, public-and-private partnership to significantly enhance public safety and security and prevent terrorist attacks.
Brother P-touch
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Yahoo! on P-touch: “the secret weapon for crafters”
Dec. 29, 2014
As part of a strategy to position the P-touch label maker as more than just an organizing tool, PKPR worked with Yahoo! News’ DIY editor for a feature story on easy DIY projects for holiday entertaining. The headline says it all: Why Label Makers are the Perfect Secret Weapon for Crafters.
Studs Terkel Radio Archive
The legacy of Studs Terkel, the Pulitzer Prize-winning oral historian and influential broadcaster whose interviews drew insights more relevant than ever from a pantheon of the 20th century’s greatest leaders and thinkers, is being preserved and made accessible for free in The Studs Terkel Radio Archive, an ambitious initiative spearheaded by the WFMT Radio Network. The Chicago organization is part of local station WFMT, which served as Terkel’s professional home for 45 years.
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The Players
Founded in 1888 by actor Edwin Booth and colleagues like Mark Twain, The Players is New York City’s only social club for theatre, television, film, music, and publishing professionals and fans of the arts. Housed in the Booth mansion, a landmark Greek Revival townhouse on Gramercy Park, The Players’ past presidents include Jose Ferrer, Lynn Redgrave, and Timothy Hutton.
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The Players celebrate artist Raymond Kinstler
Jan. 23, 2017
The Players celebrated famed portrait artist Raymond Kinstler at one of its legendary Pipe Nights last week. With guests like Tony Bennett and Tom Wolfe it was an “only in New York” night we won’t soon forget. Check out the fantastic photos from the night in The New York Times Scene City and great write-ups in New York Post Page Six, The Observer’s Best Parties of the Week, artnet, and Art Nerd New York.
Crain’s New York on The Players’ comeback
Sep. 07, 2016
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Crain’s New York goes behind the scenes of The Player’s historic comeback in this week’s issue.
Wall Street Journal profiles The Players
Jul. 13, 2016
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Check out the fantastic feature in the Wall Street Journal today on the rebirth of The Players, the historic private social club for actors and artists on Gramercy Park.
NYC Gets Inside Look at The Players
May. 18, 2016
To introduce a new generation of New Yorkers to The Players, the historic private social club on Gramercy Park, PKPR has been arranging one-on-one tours for some of New York City’s top nightlife and culture tastemaking news outlets. Check out some of the highlights:
- Gothamist: Inside The Players, New York City’s 128-year-old Private Theater Club
- Guest of a Guest: A Look Inside One of New York’s Oldest and Most Theatrical Social Clubs
- Viewing NYC: I Spent an Evening Inside One of Manhattan’s Most Exclusive Private Theater Clubs
- Untapped Cities: The Edwin Booth Bedroom: Preserved in Time at The Players since 1893
The Players Celebrate’s Clue’s 30th Anniversary
Dec. 14, 2015
The Players celebrated the 30th anniversary of the film “Clue” with an all-star tribute performance honoring Jonathan Lynn, the film’s director and screenwriter, on Sunday, December 13th.
Released in 1985, Clue starred a who’s who of comedy greats including Tim Curry, Michael McKean, Madeline Kahn, Christopher Lloyd, Eileen Brennan, and Martin Mull, and went on to become a cult classic (Buzzfeed hails it as “one of the most beloved films of the 1980s”).
The one-night-only performance at The Players, starting Michael Urie and Zachary Levy, garnered coverage in outlets from People, New York Post, and Playbill to Stage Buddy, Broadway World, and Untapped Cities.
Moogfest
The world’s most forward-thinking artists, musicians, and technologists—from Grimes, GZA, Miike Snow, Laurie Anderson, and Blood Orange to virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier, transhumanist visionary Dr. Martine Rothblatt, and cyborg artist Neil Harbisson – will be gathering in Durham, North Carolina for Moogfest 2016 this May 19 -22. Celebrating the legacy of Dr. Robert Moog and the influence his inventions have had on how we hear the world, Moogfest is unlike any other festival thanks to an intimate format where many artists not only perform in the evening, but also join panel discussions and lead workshops during the day. The New York Times said: “Moogfest, in its mom-and-pop technosophy and its insistence on immersive experiences in small, comfortable spaces, might have gotten something exactly right.”
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New York Times exclusive on Moogfest
May. 16, 2016
PKPR secured an exclusive interview for Dr. Martine Rothblatt, the nation’s highest profile transgender CEO, to discuss her keynote at the North Carolina festival in light of the state’s anti-LGBT “bathroom law.”
Huffington Post: Moogfest Fights NC Anti-LGBT Law
Apr. 02, 2016
Moogfest CEO Adam Katz talked with the Huffington Post about how the Durham-based festival is combatting North Carolina’s anti-LGBT law and taking steps to ensure that all LGBT performers, speakers, and festival-goers are safe and supported at the four-day festival. This year’s festival will feature several notable appearances by trans women including Dr. Martine Rothblatt, founder of Sirius Radio, and hip-hop artist Mykki Blanco.
Moogfest Press Preview in NYC
Mar. 04, 2016
To give New York City-based media a sneak preview of what’s in store for this year’s Moogfest in Durham, North Carolina, PKPR helped organize a press preview event at Ace Hotel New York on February 27th. Journalists from outlets like NPR’s Studio 360, Gizmodo, Quartz, The Verge, Dezeen, Inverse, Vice, and Hyperallergic had a chance to observe a synth building class, meet artists participating in the festival, and experience live performances.
The Verge and Inverse have already posted preview stories on the festival, which takes place May 19-22.
Financial Finesse
Financial Finesse helps companies provide unbiased financial coaching and education as a free employee benefit through live workshops, webinars, one-on-one financial counseling sessions and a financial helpline. A pioneer in in the financial wellness movement, Financial Finesse programs reach over 2.4 million employees at over 600 companies including Aetna, Nestle, Viacom, and General Mills,
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Liz Davidson champions new consumer protections
Apr. 08, 2016
Media outlets including USA Today, CBS Moneywatch, AP, and Business Insider turned to Liz Davidson, founder of Financial Finesses, for insight on the Obama administration’s new “fiduciary rule,” which aims to protect consumers by placing new limits on how brokers offer financial advice to people saving for retirement. The new rule was unveiled earlier this week by Secretary of Labor Tom Perez.
Financial Finesse profiled in New York Times
Mar. 27, 2016
PKPR secured an in-depth profile in today’s New York Times looking at how Financial Finesse has helped companies like Aetna, the NFL Players Foundation, and The Gilman School offer financial coaching and retirement planning guidance as a free benefit for their employees. The article features interviews with Financial Finesse founder Liz Davidson and executives from those companies discussing how this new workplace benefit has helped both their employees and their companies.
ArtBuilt
ArtBuilt is a Brooklyn-based nonprofit that supports the creative sector in NYC and nationally through three programming initiatives: ArtBuilt Brooklyn provides long-term, affordable workspace for artists and arts-based businesses; ArtHome provides asset-building strategies and financial literacy training for individual artists and creative business people; and ArtBuilt Mobile Studios deliver needed programs and services to under-served communities by providing innovative mobile workspaces to artists, social-service providers, and micro-businesses.
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ArtBuilt Brooklyn on front page of NY Times Arts
Apr. 23, 2019
PKPR placed a major exclusive on the opening of ArtBuilt Brooklyn, the largest non-profit space for affordable, private artist studios to be built in New York City in 20 years, in today’s New York Times. Check out the story and amazing photos: Displaced Artists Open a New Front at the Brooklyn Army Terminal.
ArtBuilt on WNYC
Jun. 15, 2016
Not one, but two PKPR clients - ArtBuilt and Fractured Atlas - are featured in this great WNYC piece on innovative efforts to create affordable studio and performance space for New York City artists in today’s overheated real estate market.
ArtBuilt Mobile Studios Make NYC Debut
Aug. 21, 2015
Skyrocketing studio rental costs is the biggest challenge facing New York City’s creative sector, according to the Center for Urban Future’s Creative New York Report released in June 2015. In the ten neighborhoods most closely associated with art and creativity, rents rose by at least 32 percent from 2000 to 2012.
This summer, ArtBuilt Mobile Studios demonstrated one potential solution to the crisis at the Queens Museum, where two artists participated residencies in the ArtBuilt Mobile Studio. Built at an extremely low price-point, the 8.5 X 19.5 studio on wheels showcases how artists that might never qualify for a commercial lease or even a home loan could potentially own their own workspace for as little as $13,000.
PKPR secured coverage in outlets including The Atlantic’s CityLab (”Forget tiny houses, it’s time for tiny artist studios”), Untapped Cities, Inhabitat, PSFK, and TrendHunter
VuHaus
VuHaus is a non-profit, non-commercial organization comprised of public media’s leading Music Discovery radio stations. The curated national streaming video platform features performances from the studios of these participating stations, and is available via mobile and web.
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Hudson Square Connection
The Hudson Square Connection (HSC) is the Business Improvement District (BID) for the Hudson Square neighborhood, bounded by Canal street on the south, Houston street on the north, 6th Avenue on the east and Greenwich street on the west. Our mission, in part, is to put Hudson Square on the map by capturing the spirit of innovation that is thriving in the commercial spaces and bringing that energy into the public realm.
The Hudson Square neighborhood is home to more than 50,000 people working in more than 1,000 firms in advertising, design, media, communications and other cutting edge businesses. Our daytime population is estimated to be almost 70,000 people. We are adjacent to the densely populated neighborhoods of Soho, the West Village and Tribeca.
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Hudson Square Goes 3D
Jun. 19, 2015
This two-day event in Lower Manhattan’s Hudson Square neighborhood showcased its evolution from New York City’s historic printing district to a fast-growing hub for tech and design. Highlights included comedian Todd Barry headlining a panel on the podcasting boom, a free workshop where you could learn to compose music with modular synthesizers, an evening of rapid-fire talks with top designers, and live 3D printing of objects like benches and bird houses in lobbies across the neighborhood.
PKPR secured coverage from The New York Times, New York Daily News, Metro New York, 6sqft, DNAinfo, Downtown Magazine, New York Business Journal, am New York, and a special feature by Untapped Cities highlighting the history of Hudson Square’s historic buildings.
Vintage Live
Vintage Live is the world’s most interactive musical revue. Showman Gregory Charles uses technology not as a gimmick but as a means to collect and monitor audience requests, data, and feedback in real-time to create a completely original and uniquely crowd-pleasing musical experience every night. The show makes it U.S. debut in New York City in it’s 800-person, state-of-the-art, pop-up theater from April 1 - May 2, 2015.
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Global Spa & Wellness Summit
The Global Spa & Wellness Summit (GSWS) is an international organization representing senior executives and leaders joined by a common interest in driving economic development and understanding of the spa and wellness industries. Delegates from diverse sectors, including hospitality, tourism, health and wellness, beauty, finance, medical, real estate, manufacturing and technology attend the organization’s annual Summit, which is held in a different host country each year and attracts attendees from over 45 countries.
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Media turn out for spa & wellness study briefing
Oct. 06, 2014
PKPR organized a press briefing to announce new research from the Global Spa & Wellness Summit which found that the global spa and wellness industry is now worth an estimated $3.4 trillion.
More than 30 journalists attended the briefing resulting in coverage in outlets including Reuters, Yahoo! News, Business Insider, Quartz, Upstart Business Journal, Skift, and Travel Market Report.
Springboard for the Arts
Springboard for the Arts cultivates vibrant neighborhoods by connecting artists with the skills, resources, and opportunities they need to not only make a living but to make positive change in their communities. Through innovative programs like CSAs (Community Supported Art), Artists’ Health Fairs, Irrigate, and Ready Go, Springboard to the Arts helps communities collaborate with artists to solve local economic, social, and cultural challenges. Its national initiative, Creative Exchange, enables communities everywhere to replicate Springboard for the Arts’ flagship programs as well as proven projects from across the country that mobilize the powerful, creative force of artists to build stronger cities. Springboard for the Arts is based in St. Paul and Fergus Falls, Minnesota.
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Using art for urban planning
Dec. 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.
Springboard highlights NEA’s rural impact
Jun. 02, 2017
With the Trump administration proposing to eliminate funding for the National Endowment of the Arts, Springboard for the Arts wanted to help shape the national debate by highlighting how a $25,000 NEA grant helped a struggling rural Minnesota community leverage 10 times that amount in new private investments ($1.2 million) for an innovative artist-led economic development program.
PKPR placed in depth stories on Springboard’s powerful NEA case study in outlets including ThinkProgress, Vice’s Creators, and The Art Newspaper.
Fast Company profiles Creative Exchange
May. 20, 2016
Check out this amazing profile of Creative Exchange in Fast Company.
Creative Exchange in Quartz, DIY Network
Sep. 10, 2015
Over the summer, PKPR has placed stories in outlets from Quartz to DIY Network to Food Republic on how Creative Exchange is helping communities nationwide replicate Community Supported Art programs. The program is modeled after Community Supported Agriculture, but instead of buying a share to receive produce from a local farm, shareholders receive boxes of original art made by local artists.
Creative Exchange Op-Ed in The Guardian
Feb. 13, 2015
PKPR worked closely with Laura Zabel of Creative Exchange to develop and place an op-ed by her in The Guardian. Her column looks at 7 case studies from around the world where artists are leading innovative community and economic development projects. The piece has already been shared more than 2,100 times in just 24 hours.
Creative Exchange Launches
Nov. 14, 2014
Dedicated to helping communities mobilize the creative force of artists to solve local challenges, Creative Exchange was launched last month by St. Paul-based Springboard for the Arts. Creative Exchange offers free toolkits, consultation, and networking to help communities collaborate with artists in replicating programs that creatively address economic, social, and cultural issues.
PKPR secured coverage for the launch in outlets like Next City, CitiScope, Shareable, The Art Newspaper Human Transit, Better Cities & Towns, and This Big City.
Third Street Music School Settlement
Founded in 1894, Third Street Music School Settlement is the nation’s oldest community music school. Instrumental in helping to establish community arts education in the United States, it has been changing lives and its community by providing access to world-class music and dance instruction to students of all ages and backgrounds, regardless of ability or economic circumstances. Today its East Village location and in-school programs serve nearly 5,000 students, with more than 75 percent benefiting from need-based financial aid, merit-based scholarships, and free or low-cost instruction.
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Meet’s NYC’s real School of Rock
Dec. 07, 2015
With the musical School of Rock opening on Broadway last night, we invited to am New York to meet New York City’s very own kid rock ‘n’ roll bands at the Third Street Music School in New York City. Check out the story in today’s paper.
Third Street in Metro New York
Jan. 19, 2015
How do you get to Carnegie Hall?
Practice. Practice. Practice.
In today’s Metro New York, the staff at Third Street Music School Settlement shares their best tips on how parents can make practicing music more fun for their kids.
ESI Design
Founded by interactive pioneer Edwin Schlossberg, ESI Design is an experiential design firm that has been redefining engagement for over 35 years. From its roots transforming the Brooklyn Children’s Museum to its current work with leading institutions and brands like The Edward M. Kennedy Institute, Barclays, Reuters, and PNC Bank, ESI integrates cutting-edge technology, digital media, art, and physical design to create environments that inspire audiences to meet, network, learn, collaborate, and be entertained and delighted.
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ESI Design on The Weather Channel
Aug. 15, 2019
PKPR secured an appearance on The Weather Channel for ESI Design founder Ed Schlossberg to discuss a massive light-art installation that draws on local weather data to create abstract light patterns that recall sunlight rippling through trees, rain falling, and clouds scudding across the sky. The installation at Chicago’s 35-story skyscraper at 151 North Franklin turns the concrete wall that once made the outdoor terrace feel narrow and cramped into an urban oasis.
Other coverage highlights include Curbed, NBC Chicago, Dexigner, Art Critique, SEGD, and AV Magazine.
Raves for new Statue of Liberty Museum
May. 31, 2019
The new Statue of Liberty Museum, with exhibits created by experience design studio ESI Design, officially opened on May 16th.
PKPR helped coordinate several press tours for design, architecture, and arts media, resulting in over 50 stories that highlighted ESI Design’s work, over 70 percent of which quoted ESI Design founder Edwin Schlossberg or other ESI spokespersons.
Highlights included the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Smithsonian Magazine, WNYC, Business Insider, Metropolis, Architectural Digest, Slate, My Modern Met, New York Post, Fast Company, Quartz, Untapped Cities, 6sqft, and Dexigner.
ESI Design and the new Statue of Liberty Museum
Nov. 19, 2018
ESI Design is designing the exhibits for the new Statue of Liberty Museum, opening in May 2019. PKPR helped organize a series of preview tours for design and architecture press during the museum’s construction. Coverage has included Architectural Digest, designboom, Curbed, Culture Trip, Untapped Cities, 6sqft, and A Daily Dose of Architecture.
Schlossberg on Buckminster Fuller in Metropolis
Jul. 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.
ESI’s Schlossberg on Design Matters
Mar. 05, 2018
Put on your earphones and listen to this fascinating interview with ESI Design founder Edwin Schlossberg on Design Matters with Debbie Millman.
ESI Design in Rolling Stone
Aug. 30, 2017
Starting with creating games for pocket calculators more than 40 years, Ed Schlossberg of ESI Design has been obsessed with developing games that large groups of people can play together in the same space. PKPR placed an op-ed by Ed in Rolling Stone discussing his lifelong passion and what it means for the future of gaming.
ESI Design on MSNBC
Apr. 22, 2016
For Earth Day 2016, MSNBC profiled ESI Design’s work on The Beacon at The Tower at PNC Plaza in Pittsburgh, considered the greenest office building in the world.
“A Dazzling, Data-Driven Showstopper”
Oct. 28, 2015
The greenest office tower in the world, The Tower at PNC Plaza, opened in Pittsburgh, PA earlier this month, One of its most groundbreaking innovations is how it engages with employees to communicate the invisible things that the building is doing behind the scenes to conserve energy and water – and the role that employees can play in maximizing the building’s efficiency.
The communication is all done through a soaring, 24-foot-high installation in the Tower’s lobby that uses real-time data from the building to reveal how the building is performing through light, color, and sound patterns. It’s been hailed as a “dazzling, data-driven showstopper” by MNN (Mother Nature Network) and received coverage in outlets from Slate to Architect Magazine.
ESI’s Ed Schlossberg Profiled in WSJ
Jun. 16, 2015
On the heels of the opening of new exhibits and experience design projects for The Edward M. Kennedy Institute and the Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration, ESI Design founder Ed Schlossberg is profiled in today’s The Wall Street Journal - “A Designer’s Creation: His Own Career.”
ESI Design profiled in Engadget
May. 14, 2015
Engadget goes behind-the-scenes with the ESI Design team for a video tour of the design and technology behind the exhibits at the new Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration opening on May 20th.
ESI Design profiled by CBS This Morning
Apr. 27, 2015
CBS This Morning aired a fantastic profile on ESI Design that’s been over two months in the works.
For a look at how ESI Design is at the forefront of using LEDs to transform formerly overlooked office buildings, correspondent David Begnaud visited the ESI offices in NYC for interviews and tours, as well as two of its projects in Chicago. The result is a definitive look at how ESI Design is setting the benchmark for experience design.
ESI Work For Kennedy Institute Wins Praise
Apr. 06, 2015
President Obama officially opened the Edward M. Kennedy Institute in Boston last week. PKPR client ESI Design created the Institute’s interactive exhibits and visitor experience, which includes a program that allows up to 100 people to “play” Senators-in-Training in a full-scale recreation of the U.S. Senate Chamber.
The firm’s innovative work won praise from influential design outlets and columnists including Fast Company (”In This Museum, You Don’t Learn About Senators. You Are a Senator”), Quartz (”Ted Kennedy’s Institute Lets Visitors Play Senator For A Day”), and Slate (”Kennedy Institute Combines Cutting-Edge Tech With A Full-Scale Senate Replica”).
Slate Looks at How ESI Reimagines Old Buildings
Feb. 23, 2015
Slate’s design Kristin Hohenadel today took a big picture look at how ESI Design is re-imagining old office buildings for the 21st century using massive light-art installations, digital media experiences, interactive technology, and more.
ESI Design in Architectural Digest
Oct. 31, 2014
How do you transform a Brutalist mass of concrete into a vibrant property that appeals to Boston’s growing tech industry? Architectural Digest take a look ESI Design’s makeover for the lobby of I.M. Pei‘s iconic 177 Huntington tower on the Christian Science Plaza in Boston.
POBA | Where the Arts Live
POBA is a program of the James Kirk Bernard Foundation, a nonprofit organization created to honor the artistic interests of Jamie Bernard, a young writer and artist (1987- 2010). POBA empowers heirs, estates, publishers, and representatives to preserve a deceased artist’s creative legacy and make it accessible for new audiences to discover and experience their work.
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POBA confirms it’s a Basquiat!
Oct. 18, 2017
PKPR secured an exclusive with ARTnews, the oldest and most widely circulated art magazine in the world, on how POBA helped a New Jersey single mom navigate the complex art world and confirm that she was indeed the owner of an authenticated drawing by Jean-Michel Basquiat.
POBA on NPR, Time, Rolling Stone, NY Mag
Jul. 28, 2017
When paparazzo Gene Spatz died in 2003, he left behind a trove of more than 50,000 stunning photos of New York City street life, culture and nightlife in the 1970s and 80s. His two sisters wanted to preserve his remarkable legacy and make it available to the public, but had no idea how or where to start. POBA worked with his sisters to preserve his archive and create permanent galleries where his work could be seen by future generations.
PKPR placed stories on POBA’s work for Spatz in Time, Rolling Stone, New York Magazine, Artsy, and Closer Weekly Magazine and secured a fantastic segment on NPR’s Here and Now.
An online “museum” for artists lost to AIDS
Dec. 03, 2015
Fashion designer Patrick Kelly, artist Martin Wong, and disco legend Sylvester are among the inaugural artists – both famous and unknown – exhibited in a new online gallery dedicated to preserving the creative legacies of artists lost to AIDS. The initiative was launched by POBA today to coincide with World AIDS Day 2015. Recognizing that the works of many artists who died in the early years of the crisis in the 1980s and 1990s were created before digital preservation was possible, the initiative, Art Lives, also enables families and friends to digitally preserve and share the artworks of their loved ones in a permanent gallery.
PKPR secured extensive launch day coverage in a wide range of major outlets including Slate (”The Work of Artists Lost AIDS Lives On”), Vice’s The Creators Project, Quartz, Huffington Post, HyperAllergic, OUT, WWD, The Daily Dot, MR Magazine, DuJour, and Untapped Cities.
POBA founder profiled by NPR Aspen
Oct. 18, 2015
Listen to this wonderful segment on Aspen Public Radio featuring interviews with family members discussing how POBA helped them preserve the creative legacies of their deceased loved ones.
POBA in Star Ledger
May. 12, 2015
Wonderful story in today’s Star Ledger on how POBA - Where The Arts Live is helping to archive and preserve over 1000 letters written between a New Jersey couple during World War II.
Major POBA feature in New York Times
Sep. 20, 2014
POBA is featured in almost full page article in today’s New York Times in a story by Paul Sullivan on what heirs and estates should do when left with the artwork of a deceased loved one. The article features interviews with POBA founder Sallie Bernard, POBA developer Jennifer Cohen, and the families of several artists featured on POBA including Jaye Smith and Janie Tippet.
New Republic, HuffPo, ArtNet cover POBA launch
Jul. 23, 2014
Last week, PKPR helped launch POBA | Where the Arts Live, a new not-for-profit initiative of the James Kirk Bernard Foundation that provides support and an online platform for preserving, displaying, and promoting the art of talented deceased artists, both known and unknown.
PKPR secured launch coverage in a wide range of general interest and arts outlets including The New Republic, Huffington Post, ArtNet, HyperAllergic, USA Today, Flavorwire, Brain Pickings, Dazed, Dangerous Minds, and Animal New York.
digitalundivided
digitalundivided produces programs and events aimed at increasing the number of women of color in the tech industry, including FOCUS, the world’s most diverse tech conference (over 80 percent of speakers are women and/or people of color). Speakers confirmed for the conference this October in NYC include FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn and Facebook Head of Global Diversity Maxine Williams. It was founded by entrepreneur Kathryn Finney, who was named a Champion of Change by the White House for her leadership in breaking down barriers in the tech industry.
Visit the digitalundivided Website →
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“The conference trying to crack tech’s race problem”
Oct. 09, 2014
With the lack of diversity in the tech industry dominating the headlines, media turned out in full force for Focus 2014. Many of the articles highlighted how Focus is leading efforts to bring more women and people of color into the industry with a Wired headline hailing Focus as “the conference that’s trying to crack tech’s race problem.”
Other highlights included Inc.com, Adweek, Bustle, Metro New York, PandoDaily, Upstart, New York Business Journal, and MadameNoire
The Ally Coalition
The Ally Coalition was founded by members of the band FUN. (Jack Antonoff, Nate Ruess, and Andrew Dost) and designer Rachel Antonoff to raise funds for local LGBTQ groups across the country.
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Stars Take Stage for Ally Coalition Benefit
Dec. 04, 2014
Jack Antonoff (Bleachers, Fun.), Lena Dunham, Ingrid Michaelson, Janeane Garafolo, Lake Street Dive, Wyatt Cenac, Andrew McMahon, and Lucius were among the headliners at The Ally Coalition Talent Show benefiting LGBTQ homeless youth in New York City last night.
Coverage of the benefit included MTV, Time Out New York, Metro, New York Times, New York Post Page 6, New York Observer, Village Voice, New York Daily News, Flavorpill, AfterEllen, JoonBug, and JamBands.
Broad City Stars Shine at Ally Coalition Benefit
Jul. 01, 2014
Broad City stars Abby Jacobson and Ilana Glazer, W. Kamau Bell, The Daily Show’s Michael Che, Cameron Esposito, Carrie Keagan, and more turned out last week for Uncivil Union presented by The Ally Coalition, which was founded by members of the band FUN. (Jack Antonoff, Nate Ruess, and Andrew Dost) and designer Rachel Antonoff to raise funds for local LGBTQ groups across the country.
PKPR positioned the event as one of the highlights of New York City’s Gay Pride Week, securing critics picks in The New York Times, Time Out New York, Village Voice, Flavorpill, and Go, as well as coverage in BrooklynVegan, Metro, GAYLETTER, Edge New York, and PureWow.
Advertising Age
Advertising Age is recognized as the leading global source of news, analysis and inspiration for the marketing and media community. Advertising Age includes ongoing coverage of strategic topics for marketers from mid to large companies complemented by breaking news and a database of the world’s best creative.
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Gawker Media Group
Gawker Media is the publisher of some of the best loved titles on the web including the eponymous Gawker and gadget sensation Gizmodo.
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Gizmodo Home of the Future in NYC
May. 26, 2014
Last week, New Yorkers got a chance to experience how they will live, work, and play in the not-so-distant future at the Gizmodo Home of the Future, a free exhibition in Soho showcasing the design, ideas, and technology set to redefine urban dwelling - from a telepresence robot that can beam you into an office meeting when working remotely from home to a vertical garden tower for growing vegetables indoors to a biodegradable (and edible) cup.
PKPR organized a media preview event for the exhibit, attended by over 20 journalists, as well as one-on-one tours with media outlets and Gizmodo editors.
Coverage highlights included: Business Insider, Associated Press TV, ABC News, New York Daily News, WPIX-TV, Fox 5 NY TV, MTV, Inhabitat, International Business Times, US News & World Report, Metro, Dexigner, Flavorpill, Mother Nature Network, and Untapped Cities.
Let It Ripple
Let It Ripple’s mission is to use film, technology, discussion materials, and live and virtual events to engage people in conversation and action around complicated subjects that are shaping our lives, and updating these topics through an engaging, accessible, 21st-century lens. Over the past ten years, the team has created and distributed 28 films, engaged more than 50 million people in dialogue, and created a new way of making films called “cloud filmmaking,” where films are made collaboratively with people from all over the world and organize global days of screening, conversation and action. Helmed by Tiffany Shlain, Emmy-nominated filmmaker, thought leader and founder of The Webby Awards, Shlain has had four films premiere at Sundance, has won more than 80 awards, and has had four of her films selected by The U.S. State Department to screen at embassies around the world to foster dialogue across borders.
Visit the Let It Ripple Website →
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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.
50/50 Day co-founder pens CNN op-ed
Mar. 08, 2018
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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.
Writers Guild Awards
The Writers Guild Awards honor outstanding writing in film, television, new media, videogames, news, radio, promotional, and graphic animation categories. The awards are presented by the Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW) and the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE), which are labor unions representing writers in motion pictures, television, cable, digital media, and broadcast news.
Visit the Writers Guild Awards Website →
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Tina Fey, Seth Meyers at The Writers Guild Awards
Feb. 24, 2017
PKPR once again managed publicity for the annual Writers Guild Awards in New York City. More than 40 media outlets lined the red carpet to photograph and interview nominees, presenters, and honorees like Tina Fey, Seth Meyers, John Waters, Danielle Brooks, and David Harbour.
Coverage highlights included The New York Times, People, Vanity Fair, TV Guide, Variety, NYMag’s Vulture, Bustle, New York Daily News, The A.V. Club, The Mary Sue, Out, International Business Times, and Backstage.
PKPR @ The 66th Annual Writers Guild Awards
Feb. 04, 2014
PKPR managed the red carpet for the 66th Annual Writers Guild Awards in New York City on February 1st. Over 30 photographers, 20 print and online reporters, and seven television crews lined the red carpet for interviews with nominees like Beau Willimon (House of Cards), Ethan Hawke (Before Midnight), Danny Strong (The Butler) and presenters like Kerri Russell, Matthew Rhys, Kate Mulgrew, and Archie Punjabi.
Coverage highlights included New York Times, New York Magazine, People, Huffington Post, Hollywood Reporter, The Wrap, The Better Show, Complex TV, Showbiz 411, and Playbill.
Guitar Mash
Guitar Mash is a nonprofit initiative that celebrates the communal and social power of the guitar. Proceeds from the event will support Guitar Mash in creating opportunities for guitarists of all abilities, ages and cultures to play together,
Visit the Guitar Mash Website →
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Celebs + 150 guitarists perform at Guitar Mash Benefit
Nov. 22, 2013
Top Chef’s Tom Colicchio, Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith, The Roots’ Captain Kirk Douglas and former Saturday Night Live bandleader G.E. Smith were among the celebrities who joined over 150 guitarists at the 2nd annual Guitar Mash Benefit Concert, a massive six-string symphony and sing-along at Manhattan’s City Winery on November 17th.
Coverage highlights included an exclusive announcement of the benefit in the New York Times’ Arts Briefly, an interview with Wilco guitarist and Guitar Mash participant Nels Cline on WNYC’s Brian Lehrer (listen to interview below), and a photo highlight in Rolling Stone’s Random Notes.
Caplow Children’s Prize
The $1 million Caplow Children’s Prize is the largest humanitarian prize dedicated to saving children’s lives in the world today. Recognizing that nearly 18,000 children under five die from preventable causes every day, the Children’s Prize works outside of traditional channels of foreign aid and philanthropy to uncover and fund the most impactful, credible, and cost-effective, action plans for reducing child mortality.
Visit the Caplow Children’s Prize Website →
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Anita Zaidi wins first $1M Children’s Prize
Dec. 30, 2013
Dr. Anita Zaidi, a Pakistani woman who left a successful pediatric career in the United States to save children’s lives in her homeland, has won the first-ever $1 million Caplow Children’s Prize, the largest award dedicated to reducing child mortality in the world today.
PKPR secured coverage of the announcement in major international outlets from The New York Times to the Associated Press.
Finalists for Caplow Children’s Prize Unveiled
Nov. 18, 2013
PKPR is thrilled to be working with entrepreneur and philanthropist Ted Caplow, who founded the $1 million Caplow Children’s Prize, the largest humanitarian prize dedicated to reducing child mortality.
To announce the Prize’s eight finalists, PKPR placed three exclusives for the day of the announcement. CNN ran an op-ed by Ted on why he was inspired to launch the prize, Fast Company published a slide show and story on each of the finalists, and Ted appeared on HuffPo Live to discuss the Prize and finalists. Stay tuned - the winner will be announced on December 10th.
Cultural Services of the French Embassy
The Cultural Services of the French Embassy promotes the best of French arts, literature, cinema, digital innovation, language, and higher education across the US. Based in New York City, Washington D.C., and eight other cities across the country, the Cultural Services brings artists, authors, intellectuals and innovators to cities nationwide. It also builds partnerships between French and American artists, institutions and universities on both sides of the Atlantic. In New York, through its bookshop Albertine, it fosters French-American exchange around literature and the arts.
Visit the Cultural Services of the French Embassy Website →
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Albertine Prize in AP
Jun. 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.
Albertine launches new literary prize
Jun. 09, 2017
Aiming to introduce the very best of contemporary French-language literature to American audiences, Albertine, the acclaimed bookshop of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, launched the Albertine Prize, an annual $10,000 award honoring the author and the translator of one Francophone novel published in the U.S. The inaugural winner was Bardo or not Bardo by Antoine Volodine.
PKPR secured coverage of the new prize in wide range of outlets including the Associated Press, Literary Hub, Publishers Weekly, The Culture Trip, The Millions, and Bookforum.
Festival Albertine Returns to NYC
Nov. 20, 2015
For the second year in a row, PKPR handled publicity for Festival Albertine. The New Yorker’s David Remnick, choreographer Yvonne Rainer, graphic novelist Phoebe Gloeckner (The Diary of a Teenage Girl), author Margo Jefferson (Negroland), and Riad Sattouf, a former contributor to Charlie Hebdo whose new book, The Arab of the Future, was published in the U.S. this month to wide acclaim, were among the American and French-speaking authors and artists that headlined the five day festival.
Coverage highlights include a feature in the New York Times’ Weekend Miser (”Lively Debate and Discussion at Festival Albertine”), Time Out New York (”Lit Lovers and Francophiles: Get Excited”), Flavorpill, New York Review of Books, Adweek, and Publishing Perspectives.
Night of Philosophy in NY Times, New Yorker, WSJ
May. 01, 2015
Over 5,000 people waited in line for up to three hours to attend the first-ever Night of Philosophy in New York City last week.
PKPR worked closely with reporters at several major outlets to attend and cover most of the 12-hour event overnight event. The result was in depth stories covering the night as it unfolded hour-by-hour. Highlights included a front-page Arts section story in the New York Times (”12 Hours of a Mental Marathon”), a New Yorker Talk of the Town piece, The Wall Street Journal, Gothamist, Brooklyn Rail, and ArtForum.
NYC gets ready for all-night philosophy jam
Apr. 23, 2015
With the help of preview stories in numerous outlets, over 14,000 people have RSVP’d on Facebook to attend the first-ever 12-hour Night of Philosophy in New York City at the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the Ukrainian Institute.
Our favorite headline was in Quartz: The French Embassy is about to host the most French event New York has ever seen.
Other preview coverage included: Time Out New York Critics’ Pick, Flavorpill, HyperAllergic, am New York, Art Nerd New York, Untapped Cities, Publishers Weekly, and 6SqFt.
A Philosophy All-Nighter in New York Times
Mar. 30, 2015
PKPR placed an exclusive with the New York Times (”Ready Thyself for an All-Night Philosophy Jam”) on the announcement of New York City’s first-ever Night of Philosophy on April 24-25.
The 12-hour, nocturnal marathon presented by The Cultural Services of the French Embassy will feature performances, art installations, and round-the-clock lectures by over 60 leading philosophers on topics like “Must Intellectual Life Be So Boring” and “I Think, Therefore I Can.”
Albertine in NY Mag’s Best of New York
Mar. 05, 2015
Albertine Books in French and English is singled out for Shopping in New York Magazine’s annual Best of New York issue.
Albertine Festival Debuts
Oct. 17, 2014
Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, filmmaker Olivier Assayas, and, Nobel Prize-winning mathematician John Nash were among the leading French and American thinkers that headlined the first-ever Festival Albertine, as part of the opening festivities for the opening of the French Embassy’s new bookshop and cultural space.
Previews of the festival included Time Out New York, Village Voice, New York Observer, Metro, Refinery29, Flavorwire, Untapped Cities, and Electric Literature
Full page NY Times feature on Festival Albertine
Oct. 10, 2014
PKPR placed a full-page feature in today’s New York Times on the opening of Albertine and the kick-off its six-day festival, with reporter William Grimes calling it “a sumptuous, swaddled nest where book lovers can roost.”
Albertine in WSJ, Paris Review, Time Out
Sep. 26, 2014
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In advance of the official September 27th opening of Albertine, the French Embassy’s new bookshop and reading on New York City’s Museum Mile, PKPR secured a flurry of preview stories in national and local media, led by a wonderful piece by Jennifer Maloney in the Wall Street Journal yesterday. Other highlights include Publishers Weekly, The Paris Review, Time Out New York, New York Magazine, Conde Nast Traveler, Entertainment Weekly, Travel + Leisure, CoolHunting, DuJour, Very Short List, Untapped Cities, and Crain’s New York.
Albertine in Vogue’s iconic September issue
Sep. 01, 2014
Inside the pages of the iconic September issue of Vogue: Albertine, the French Embassy’s new bookshop and reading room opening in New York City in late September.
Proust Celebration on NY Times Arts Front Page
Nov. 13, 2013
As part of a year-long celebration of the centennial of Marcel Proust’s Swann’s Way, dozens of French and American writers, artists, and Proust fans, including Ira Glass, Mike Birbiglia, Dominique Ansel (creator of the cronut and pictured above), and author Edmund White participated in a weeklong live reading of the classic at venues across city last week.
To bring Proust’s world to life, PKPR client Moleskine also curated live drawing events for each reading featuring students and alumni from the MFA Illustration as Visual Essay department at the School of Visual Arts.
Coverage highlights included a front page Arts section feature in the New York Times, a pick as one of the five best events of the week by Time Out New York, a behind-the-scenes look at the readings in The New York Observer, and a wonderful photo feature on all of the live sketches in Brain Pickings.
MapBox
MapBox makes it easy and affordable for anyone to create highly customized, interactive maps for websites and apps using open-source tools and data.
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Part of a national movement with outposts in more than 40 communities across the country, Brooklyn Community Supported Art + Design (CSA+D) is the first program of its kind to launch in New York City. Representing an affordable and exciting new way to collect art and support local and emerging artists and designers, Brooklyn CSA+D offers a fresh alternative to the commercial gallery system, which can be prohibitively expensive and daunting to many people. The goal is to build real connections between shareholders and local artists that will inspire new relationships and the potential for future purchases of artwork.
Visit the Brooklyn CSA+D Website →
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CSA+D Brooklyn on NY1
Dec. 10, 2014
Check out this fantastic segment by NY1’s Stephanie Simon on Brooklyn Community Support Art + Design.
Brooklyn CSA+D in Blackbook, Time Out NY
Oct. 03, 2014
The Brooklyn CSA+D is back for its second season, giving New Yorkers the chance to buys shares and receive six pieces of original artwork at the end of season.
Coverage has include Time Out New York, Food and Wine, Blackbook, Brooklyn Magazine, Free Williamsburg, Bedford + Bowery, and Creative Bloq.
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A CSA for Art, Not Veggies
Sep. 05, 2013
Putting a creative twist on Community Supported Agriculture programs (CSA) in which people invest in a local farm and enjoy monthly deliveries of fresh produce, Brooklyn Community Supported Art + Design (CSA+D) gives New Yorkers the opportunity to purchase shares in exchange for artwork yet to be created by a curated group of local and emerging artists and designers.
PKPR secured extensive national and regional coverage for the launch of CSA+D including DailyCandy, Art in America, House Beautiful, Wall Street Journal, PSFK, New York Daily News, HyperAllergic, Brooklyn Exposed, The Atlantic, Art Daily, Brooklyn Magazine, PureWow, Brokelyn, The Brooklyn Paper, and Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
State Farm
State Farm’s® mission is to help people manage the risks of everyday life, recover from the unexpected, and realize their dreams.
We are people who make it our business to be like a good neighbor; who built a premier company by selling and keeping promises through our marketing partnership; who bring diverse talents and experiences to our work of serving the State Farm customer.
Our success is built on a foundation of shared values—quality service and relationships, mutual trust, integrity and financial strength.
Our vision for the future is to be the customer’s first and best choice in the products and services we provide. We will continue to be the leader in the insurance industry and we will become a leader in the financial services arena. Our customers’ needs will determine our path. Our values will guide us.
Visit the State Farm Website →
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Slam dunk: State Farm on Mashable
Mar. 15, 2013
During the NBA’s Christmas Day television extravaganza, State Farm debuted a major national ad campaign with LA Clippers’ star Chris Paul, who also portrayed his fictional twin brother Cliff Paul in the high-concept ad.
PKPR was brought in to assist in bringing Cliff Paul to life online. Our firm worked closely with the ad agency behind the campaign to build buzz and turn Cliff Paul into a social media star.
PKPR build buzz for the campaign with stories on Huffington Post, Mediabistro (AgencySpy), Hooped Up, Yardbarker, Uproxx, Contently, and Black Sports Online. The press helped Cliff Paul’s twitter account reach 25,000 followers and pushed over 750,000 people to view the ad on YouTube.
The online campaign culminated with PKPR securing the exclusive world premiere of the second Cliff Paul ad on Mashable, who called the social media campaign “clever and wildly popular… a hit with fans online.”
Benevolent
Founded in 2011 by Megan Kashner, Benevolent aims to provide crowdfunded support to the 104 million Americans living in low-income households. Benevolent works with local non-profits, from social service providers to religious organizations, to verify users, their stories and their one time, needs. Benevolent is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. For more information, visit the Benevolent Press Center at www.benevolent.net/About/Press-Room.html.
Visit the Benevolent Website →
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Theatre of the Oppressed NYC, a nonprofit organization that empowers communities on the margins to reenact their struggles in the form of plays. After each performance, audiences are invited onstage to put themselves in the protagonists’ shoes and suggest creative answers to the problems dramatized in the show.
Visit the Theatre of the Oppressed NYC Website →
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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.
Theatre of the Oppressed on NowThis
Oct. 28, 2016
Check out this amazing video from NowThis on how Theatre of the Oppressed NYC is changing the world through the power of the theater. It’s been viewed more than 143,000 times!
Theatre of the Oppressed on Metro’s front page
Apr. 25, 2016
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Theatre of the Oppressed NYC is the full front-page cover story in today’s Metro New York!
Can Theater Spur Public Policy Changes?
May. 24, 2013
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Can theater change minds or even public policy?
On May 18th, Theatre of the Oppressed NYC proved it just might be possible when it presented short plays performed by homeless LGBTQ youth that were based on the challenges they face living in New York City.
The youth were then joined by elected officials like New York City Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer and audience members to improv, act out, identify, and finally vote on possible policy solutions. The result was an experience that was entertaining, eye-opening, and potentially life-changing.
PKPR secured preview features and post-festival reviews in both national and local media including The Huffington Post, Metro New York, Next Magazine, Gay City News, Edge New York, and New York Theatre.
Speakeasy Dollhouse
Under the direction of Cynthia von Buhler, Speakeasy Dollhouse has become one of the most prolific creators of immersive theater in New York City having staged six hit plays including: The Bloody Beginning (The Back Room), The Brothers Booth (The Players Club), The Girl Who Handcuffed Houdini (Theatre 80), The Illuminati Ball Immersive Excursion (Secret Location), and The Illuminati Ball New York City (Weylin).
Visit the Speakeasy Dollhouse Website →
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Dec. 30, 2018
PKPR placed a full-page feature on the special one-night-only performance of the immersive theater hit at Brooklyn’s The Weylin on New Year’s Eve. Other coverage included Gothamist, Time Out New York, The Sun, PureWow, Maxim, MyDomaine, Untapped Cities, Secret NYC, What Should We Do?, and IDK Tonight.
The Girl Who Handcuffed Houdini premieres in NYC
Nov. 12, 2018
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New York audiences were be transported back to 1926 to experience a world of mysterious speakeasies, backstage intrigue, and hotel room affairs as they unraveled the untimely death of legendary illusionist Harry Houdini in The Girl Who Handcuffed Harry Houdini, the latest immersive theatrical production from playwright and director Cynthia von Buhler and her production company, Speakeasy Dollhouse.
Check out The Madador Network’s awesome Facebook video (which has over 200,000 views) and coverage and reviews in Time Out New York (One of the top 7 things to do this week), New York Magazine’s Bedford + Bowery, BlackBook, Inside Hook, Bowery Boogie, and Broadway World.
The Brothers Booth debuts at Players Club
Apr. 23, 2014
For one Saturday night each month, New Yorkers are invited into the members-only Players Club, the historic mansion on Gramercy Park, for The Brothers Booth, a new immersive theater experience by the creators of the long-running downtown hit Speakeasy Dollhouse.
Coverage of The Brothers Booth includes an in depth feature in The New York Daily News, as well as New York Observer, DNAInfo, Inside Hook, Pure Wow, and Untapped Cities.
Cool Hunting visits Speakeasy Dollhouse
Dec. 12, 2013
Check out this fantastic behind-the-scenes look at immersive downtown theater hit Speakeasy Dollhouse by Cool Hunting.
Speakeasy Dollhouse in Salon, DailyCandy, Metro
Sep. 27, 2013
With the fall theater season kicking into gear, PKPR continues to secure ongoing coverage for Speakeasy Dollhouse. Recent highlights include a cover story on immersive theater in American Theater Magazine, an interview with creator Countess Cynthia Von Buhler in Salon.com, a feature in Metro, and best of the weekend picks in DailyCandy, PureWow, and Guest of a Guest.
Speakeasy Dollhouse: “A Hot Club Fun Time Machine”
Mar. 27, 2013
As it embarked on its third season, Speakeasy Dollhouse tapped PKPR to develop a campaign to garner renewed press attention for the play and to position it at the forefront of a new wave of immersive theater productions in New York City. PKPR worked on three fronts: inviting critics to review the play for first time, pursuing profiles and interviews with the play’s creator Cynthia Von Buhler, and placing features and round-ups on the emerging trend of immersive theater.
The results: an awesome profile in the Wall Street Journal, reviews in outlets like the New York Post, Show Business Weekly, and NYTheatre, and in depth features on the immersive theater phenomenon in Crain’s New York Business, Theatermania, and NewYork.com
Matter.
Fusing public media values with Silicon Valley entrepreneurship, KQED, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and Public Radio Exchange (PRX) launched Matter, a start-up accelerator supporting media entrepreneurs building a more informed, connected, and empowered society.
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Feb. 28, 2014
Matter, the San Francisco-based incubator dedicated to changing media for good, hosted a Demo Day in New York City last for its second class of startups. Media attending and covering the Demo Day at WNYC’s Greene Space included Re/Code, Politico, Mediabistro, Xconomy, and Folio.
Matter’s First Startup Class Comes to NYC
Jul. 29, 2013
Matter’s first class of six media startups traveled from San Francisco to New York City this week to demonstrate their products and services to a packed room of media executives and investors at WNYC’s Greene Space.
Coverage of the event included TechCrunch, Inc., Columbia Journalism Review, and Upstart Business Journal.
Six startups that could change the future of media
Mar. 19, 2013
Matter, the new startup accelerator for media ventures backed by Knight Foundation, KQED, and PRX, announced the six startups to participate in its first class.
Matter chose six projects that have potential to create a more informed, connected, and empowered society while pursuing a scalable business model. The selected media ventures range from a crowd-powered investigative network to an online video analytics platform to a service that adds a spoken layer to best of the written web.
AllThingsD, Fast Company, The Next Web, Techcrunch, GigaOM, Nieman Journalism Lab, Current, and Upstart are among the leading outlets that profiled Matter’s first class.
Stay tuned for Matter’s first demo day in June 2013.
Matter Ventures in New York Times, All Things D
Dec. 17, 2012
Fusing public media values with Silicon Valley entrepreneurship, KQED, the Knight Foundation and Public Radio Exchange (PRX) last week launched Matter Ventures, a start-up accelerator supporting media entrepreneurs building a more informed, connected, and empowered society.
The launch kicked off with an exclusive story in The New York Times. Wider coverage included All Things D, Fast Company, GigaOm, VentureBeat, The Next Web, PandoDaily, San Francisco Chronicle, and Xconomy.
Lifebeat: Music Fights HIV/AIDS
Lifebeat is a national nonprofit that uses the power of music and the music industry to help educate young people about HIV/AIDS prevention. Every year, Lifebeat reaches thousands of concert-goers across the country with safer sex education, free condoms, HIV/AIDS prevention information, counseling, and testing. In 2012, Lifebeat conducted HIV/AIDS outreach at concerts and festivals headlined by Madonna, Coldplay, Juanes, Wiz Khalifa & Mac Miller, and Rita Ora.
Visit the Lifebeat: Music Fights HIV/AIDS Website →
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Lifebeat in Buzzfeed, Mashable
Jan. 21, 2013
Sandra “Pepa” Denton and Howard Stern producer Gary Dell’Abate helped unveil The Arches of Hope at a fundraiser benefiting Lifebeat: Music Fights HIV/AIDS and MTV Staying Alive Foundation last Thursday night.
Transforming the lobby of The OUT NYC, The Arches of Hope is an interactive art installation that reflects on the impact of HIV/AIDS over the past three decades, while inspiring audiences to help create an HIV-free generation. Until January 24th, the public can tweet with the hashtag #ArchesofHope to have their messages beamed to two VIACOM jumbo screens in Times Square and to a digital tickertape embedded in the installation.
Coverage of the event included Buzzfeed, Mashable, Huffington Post, The Advocate, Village Voice, am New York, Arch Daily, Poz, and Next Magazine.
Helen & Edgar
The creative team behind storytelling juggernaut The Moth join with acclaimed raconteur Edgar Oliver to present the world premiere of Helen & Edgar, Oliver’s mesmerizing, hilarious and heartbreaking tale of he and his sister Helen’s strange childhood in Savannah, and their mother’s struggle with madness.
Visit the Helen & Edgar Website →
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Kudos for Helen & Edgar
Oct. 24, 2012
PKPR was thrilled to handle publicity for the world premiere of Helen & Edgar. Brought to the stage by he creative team behind longtime PKPR client The Moth, Helen & Edgar is Edward Oliver’s mesmerizing, hilarious and heartbreaking tale of he and his sister Helen’s strange childhood in Savannah, and their mother’s struggle with madness.
Here a just a few of the raves of the limited-run production:
“Utterly absorbing and unexpectedly moving” - Ben Brantley in the New York Times
“Oliver, with nothing but his alien timbre and a few perfectly chosen gestures, captivates and mesmerizes as we laugh and gasp at the agonizing, exhilarating upbringing that shaped his one-of-a-kind voice, hewed it out of insanity, chaos, and, most troublingly of all, love.” - Scott Brown in New York Magazine
“Oliver takes listeners on a raw, riveting and — despite its eccentricity — highly relatable journey.” - T. Michelle Murphy in Metro
“Edgar Oliver weaves together a patchwork of incidents from his rather gothic upbringing in Savannah, Ga. It was far from an idyllic childhood, but Oliver exhibits no rancor. Rather, the performer, in his exceptionally distinctive manner, seems to joyfully relish the telling of it—and the pleasure is infectious.” - Ron Cohen in Backstage
Link TV
Link Media uses media and the power of stories to engage, inform and inspire its audiences to participate in transformational, sustainable change on issues of global importance. Founded in 1999, Link Media operates the Link TV national network and the websites LinkTV.org and ViewChange.org. An independent and non-commercial media company, Link Media acquires, produces and delivers global news, documentaries and cultural programming over three distribution channels: broadcast, web, and mobile devices.
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Fractured Atlas
Fractured Atlas is the country’s largest arts service organization, reaching a network of more than 250,000 artists in all 50 states and all 435 congressional districts. Dedicated to empowering artists with the support they need to work effectively and thrive, Fractured Atlas provides funding, insurance, technology, education, and other services critical to building sustainable careers and organizations.
Visit the Fractured Atlas Website →
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WNYC story features 2 PKPR clients
Jun. 15, 2016
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Two PKPR clients - Fractured Atlas and ArtBuilt Mobile Studios - were featured in a WNYC segment looking at innovative programs that are helping artists find affordable rehearsal, studio, and performance space in an increasingly expensive New York City.
Fractured Atlas’ Adam Huttler on Crain’s 40 Under 40
Mar. 28, 2016
Congratulations to Adam Huttler, founder of Fractured Atlas, who was named to Crain’s New York’s 40 Under 40 for 2016.
Boston Globe, BostInno cover SpaceFinder Mass Launch
Feb. 12, 2015
Continuing to empower artists nationwide Fractured Atlas launched SpaceFinder Mass, a powerful new marketing tool for venues seeking to book under-utilized rehearsal and performance space to Massachusetts artists.
Coverage included a half-page story by Boston Globe’s Nidhi Subbaraman and an in depth article by BostInno’s Hillary Milnes.
Artists Learn to Code
Apr. 30, 2014
Actors, artists, and musicians waiting tables could become a thing of the past if it is up to Fractured Atlas.
This summer, the PKPR client is launching a software development fellowship for artists all types aimed at providing a high-paying, in-demand alternative to the restaurant and office temp jobs artists often rely on to help make ends meet between projects.
Coverage of the announcement of the call for applications included Metro New York, PandoDaily, Upstart (see video interview below), and Xconomy.
Fractured Atlas Op-Ed in Guardian sparks debate
Apr. 08, 2014
On the heels of Amtrak launching its writer residency program, PKPR worked closely with Fractured Atlas program director Lisa Niedermeyer to develop an op-ed on how more and more artists are taking matters into their own hands by organizing Do-It-Yourself residencies. PKPR placed the op-ed in The Guardian’s popular Culture Professionals Network, where it was shared on social media more than 1000 times.
Winners of Arts Entrepreneurship Awards Announced
Feb. 21, 2014
A crowd-funded, pop-up artists colony in a Kansas church, a nonprofit helping artists build financial assets through homeownership, and a fundraising collaborative between nationally recognized arts groups are among the five winners of the first-ever Arts Entrepreneurship Awards, unveiled earlier this month.
Coverage of the winners included Fast Company, Back Stage, American Express Open Forum, Public Art Review, The Austin Chronicle, and The Erie Reader.
Fractured Atlas profiled by Crain’s New York
Dec. 16, 2013
As part of its annual Arts and Nonprofits Report, Crain’s New York published an in depth profile of Fractured Atlas and its founder Adam Huttler. The profile was the culmination of several months of working closely with reporter Theresa Agovino and introducing her to the many small arts organizations and independent artists that benefit from Fractured Atlas’ many services. The opening paragraph: “Adam Huttler understands the perils of running a small arts organization, so he’s made a career of helping others avoid them.”
Fractured Atlas Hits the Road!
Feb. 18, 2013
Aiming to both empower artists and better address the challenges facing them, Fractured Atlas, the nation’s largest arts service organization, hit the road for a week of panels, tours, and Meet & Greets across the south. Fractured Atlas made stops at all the major arts hubs in the South, including: Atlanta, Birmingham, Charlotte, Columbia, Louisville, Jackson, and Nashville.
Making sure that all local artists got the most out of the tour, PKPR placed stories in every market including: Charlotte Observer, Louisville Courier-Journal, Louisville Public Radio, Nashville Scene, Jackson Free Press, Birmingham News and Columbia Free Times.
An OpenTable for Rehearsal Space
Sep. 15, 2012
Fractured Atlas this month launched the first service enabling artists to find, schedule, and rent available rehearsal and performance space based on a wide range of needs, including date, time, cost, and location.
PKPR placed stories on service in a wide range of outlets, including Backstage (check out the awesome infographic above), The Next Web (which dubbed it “an OpenTable for rehearsal space”), Crain’s New York Business, American Theatre Magazine, New York Observer’s Betabeat, DNAinfo, Brokelyn, and Animal New York.
Moleskine
The Moleskine notebook is the heir and successor to the legendary notebook used by artists and thinkers over the past two centuries. In 1997, a small Milanese publisher brought the legendary notebook back to life, choosing this literary name to revive an extraordinary tradition and accompany the creative professions of our time.
Today Moleskine is a brand that encompasses a family of nomadic objects dedicated to our mobile identity, synonym for creativity and an inspiration for ideas, projects and spontaneous collaborations. Moleskine is now also a series of collections that go beyond paper: bags, writing instruments and reading accessories.
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Moleskine in Fast Co’s Most Innovative Company issue
Feb. 15, 2017
For its annual Most Innovative Companies issue, Fast Company caught up with Moleskine CEO Arrigo Berni to discuss the company’s recent expansions, including the launch of the first Moleskine Cafe and its hugely successful Smart Writing Set.
Fortune looks at Moleskine’s digital innovation
Dec. 22, 2016
Fortune goes behind-the-scenes with Moleskine Chief Digital Officer Peter Jensen to look at how the company is building a bridge between the digital and handwritten world.
Moleskine goes Hogwarts
Nov. 04, 2016
Celebrating the magic of storytelling, Moleskine this week unveiled its new Harry Potter Limited Edition Notebooks just in time for both the holiday gift-giving season and the release of the new Harry Potter movie, Fantastic Beasts.
PKPR secured coverage in a wide range of outlets including Teen Vogue, Bustle, Glamour, HelloGiggles, The Daily Dot, Geek Dad, ComicBook, Creative Bloq, Nerd Approved and StupidDope.
Moleskine opens the Moleskine Cafe
Aug. 05, 2016
In a perfect extension for the cult notebook brand loved by travelers, artists, writers, and creatives, Moleskine last week opened its first-ever centrally-located Moleskine Café, a two-story social and cultural hub offering food, coffee, retail, and space for exhibits by fans and artists.The café debuts in Milan, the hometown of Moleskine, with the goal of creating a new gathering spot for social, cultural and artistic life that can be replicated in the world’s great cities.
Coverage so far has included Fast Company, Food and Wine, Slate, Mental Floss, Apartment Therapy, Business Insider, Yahoo! Style, Real Simple, PSFK, Paste, and HelloGiggles.
Love for first-ever Moleskine leather bags
Apr. 29, 2016
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Moleskine this week debuted its first-ever line of leather bags - all inspired by the simple design of its classic black notebook. Beyond fashion industry buzz in outlets like WWD and MR, the line received raves from a range of media outlets including:
- xo Jane: “Your favorite notebook maker is now making fancy tote bags”
- Bustle: “Like the notebooks, this leather bag collection is simple, understated, and classic”
- Digital Arts: “Moleskine’s stylish first full line of leather bags are on our ‘want’ list”
Moleskine National Handwriting Day 2016
Jan. 29, 2016
National Handwriting Day, a program developed by PKPR four years ago, has become a major global event led by Moleskine. For National Handwriting Day 2016 on January 23, Moleskine invited celebrities and fans to participate.
This year, participants including Debra Messing, Bruce Willis, columnist Connie Schultz, and New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly shared their handwritten Tweets and Facebook posts.
Outlets like CNN, AdWeek, InStyle, and Quartz helped to spread the message by featuring Moleskine in their coverage.
Other initiatives for 2016 included participation by Moleskine Retail Store locations where customers could handwrite a message to put on social media and receive a free notebook on Handwriting Day.
View the gallery of submitted messages here.
Bloomberg Businessweek feature on Moleskine
May. 15, 2015
The fantastic photo of Moleskine CEO Arrigo Berni above was taken for a full-page profile of Moleskine in the new issue of Bloomberg Businessweek.
Major Moleskine feature in New York Times
Apr. 19, 2015
The New York Times dedicates a half-page in today’s Sunday Business section to an in depth look at how Moleskine is adapting and evolving in a digital world.
Moleskine Hosts Spring Launch Preview
Mar. 09, 2015
PKPR organized Moleskine’s first ever showroom event to preview its spring 2015 collection. The event gave media an exclusive first look at limited edition collections and the new line of Moleskine bags as well as demos of Moleskine smart notebooks and apps.
Outlets attending the event include US Weekly, Refinery 29, ABC News, Conde Nast Traveler, Bustle, Complex, Cool Hunting, am New York, Modern Luxury Magazine, Nylon, Slate, The Gadgeteer and Thought Catalog.
Moleskine owns Handwriting Day 2015
Jan. 30, 2015
National Handwriting Day, a program developed by PKPR three years ago, has become a major global event led by Moleskine. For National Handwriting Day 2015 on January 23, Moleskine invited leaders and fans to participate.
This year, everyone form Top Chef’s Sam Talbot to Huffington Post handwrote their Tweets and Facebook posts.
Outlets like AdWeek, The Daily Dot, Paste Magazine, HLN and Inhabitat helped to spread the message by featuring Moleskine in their coverage.
Other new initiatives for 2015 included participation by Moleskine retail partners like Barnes and Noble and Staples and free #HandwritingDay buttons at Moleskine stores
This year, nearly 700 photos were submitted from around the world almost doubling that of Handwriting Day 2014. View the gallery of all submitted messages here.
Moleskine in NY Times Travel, Conde Nast Traveler
Dec. 19, 2014
PKPR secured coverage for Moleskine travel gear and tools in top travel gift guides including New York Times Travel, Conde Nast Traveler, Apartment Therapy, Fodor’s, Newsday, and Slice
Moleskine Unveils Notebook for Smartpens
Sep. 15, 2014
Turning notebooks into iPads, Moleskine launched a new notebook collection that works with Livescribe Smartpens, allowing you to translate handwritten notes and sketches into digital form in real-time.
An avalanche of positive media coverage helped pre-orders sell out in just three days. Highlights included: Slate, Fast Company, Esquire, ArchDaily, Design Week, Dezeen, PSFK, designboom, Paste, HypeBeast, StupidDope, Brit + Co, Creative Bloq, and Dexigner.
Moleskine Back to School Coverage
Sep. 09, 2014
For back to school, PKPR focused on position Moleskine gear as an essential for stylish and smart college students, highlighting products like the Evernote collection, academic year planners, and its new line of backpacks. Coverage highlights included The Wall Street Journal, Bustle, one of the fastest growing lifestyle sites for young women, Fast Company, PopSugar, Racked, Better Homes & Gardens (above), Pink & Black, and College Lifestyles,
Moleskine in The New Yorker and Wall Street Journal
Apr. 18, 2014
Why is Moleskine, a seemingly paper-based company, thriving in a digital age?
Both The New Yorker and The Wall Street Journal took in depth looks this week at how the company is evolving and succeeding in a world of tablets, texts, and tweets.
Fast Co names Moleskine Top Productivity Company
Feb. 14, 2014
Check it out. In this month’s issue of Fast Company, Moleskine is the only non-tech company included on the magazine’s 2014 list of the Most Innovative Companies in Productivity
Malala, Couric join Moleskine for #HandwritingDay
Jan. 28, 2014
For the second year in a row, PKPR spearheaded a social media campaign for Moleskine for National Handwriting Day on January 23rd.
To take this year’s initiative to a new level, PKPR invited leaders like Malala Yousafzai, Katie Couric, and airBnB co-founder Joe Gebbia to handwrite a social media message and share it with their millions of followers. Outlets like USA Today, Nylon, Politico, Real Simple, GirlsLife, Mediabistro, Social Moms, and Good News Network helped spread the campaign even wider.
Overalll, more than 350 handwritten messages were submitted by people around the world, more than doubling the amount of entries received in 2013. View the gallery of all submitted messages here.
D’oh!: Moleskine Unveils Simpsons Notebook
Dec. 30, 2013
To celebrate the Simpon’s 25th season, Moleskine last week unveiled a limited edition Simpsons notebook, resulting in rejoicing around the world from Springfield to London.
Coverage highlights included USA Today, HypeBeast, HelloGiggles, Complex, StupidDope, High Snobiety, FreshnessMag, Animation World, Trendhunter, and Design You Trust.
Moleskine Co-Founder Profiled on Lifehacker
Jul. 31, 2013
Moleskine is one of the most popular and trusted brands when it comes to helping people be more creative, productive, and organized. So it only makes sense that Lifehacker loved PKPR’s idea for featuring Moleskine co-founder Maria Sebregondi in its “How I Work” series.
In addition to sharing the contents of her bag (not surprisingly, we spy several Moleskine notebooks), Sebregondi provided the one word that describes best how she works (“phygitally”), her secret talent (making Pasta al forno), and her favorite to-do list manager (pen and paper). Check out the full story here.
Exclusive Moleskine Q&A Series with Dwell Magazine
Jun. 07, 2013
To promote the publication of The Detour Book, a stunning collection of Moleskine notebooks hacked, drawn, and designed by more than 250 of the world’s top artists, designers, and creative thinkers, PKPR secured an exclusive, four-part online series with Dwell Magazine.
The series included interviews with Moleskine co-founder Maria Sebregondi and up-and-coming designers featured in The Detour Book including GamFratesi and Scott Henderson.
Moleskine Opens First Store in U.S.
Apr. 15, 2013
Moleskine fans rejoice! The first Moleskine store in the United States opened at The Time Warner Center in New York City late last month.
PKPR arranged for media outlets to have a sneak preview of the store on the evening before it opened. Outlets singing the praises of the smartly-designed store featuring the full range of Moleskine collections - notebooks, journals, bags, pens, and more - included New York Magazine, Time Out New York, DailyCandy, Racked, Dwell, PureWow New York, Complex, Thrillest’s The Crosby Press, and The Scout.
Want to experience the Moleskine store from your desktop? No one does it better than this awesome segment by Marketplace.
Moleskine + Details Draw the Future of Social Media
Mar. 29, 2013
For its annual Digital Mavericks issue, Details Magazine partnered with Moleskine to invite fans to draw the future of social media. The winning drawings were showcased at the Digital Mavericks party at the New Museum in New York City on March 27th. Outlets like The Huffington Post and PSFK published photo galleries and slide shows of the winning drawings, as well as drawings sketched by the founder of Thrillist, Lyst, and Viddy.
White is the New Black
Feb. 28, 2013
Moleskine, famed for its legendary black notebooks, this week unveiled the Moleskine White Notebook. Think the Beatles’ The White Album, Malevich’s White on White canvases, Le Corbusier’s white blocks, and your sleek, white smart phones and laptops.
Check out the coverage in Nylon, Dwell, Complex, Gizmodo, Designboom, PSFK, Design Taxi, HypeBeast, Remodelista, and more.
Moleskine marks National Handwriting Day
Jan. 25, 2013
To celebrate National Handwriting Day on January 23rd, PKPR developed a social media campaign with Moleskine inviting fans to handwrite their latest status, Tweet, or more and share a photo of it on Instagram. The results were gathered in an online gallery and covered by outlets from Mashable to Esquire.com to Mediabistro.
Peek Inside Moleskine Notebooks of Culture Makers
Dec. 14, 2012
Celebrating the power of handwriting and sketching, Moleskine this week unveiled The Detour Book, a collection of more than 250 notebooks that have been decorated, hacked, and sketched by some of the world’s leading artists and creative thinkers, including Spike Jonze, Christian LaCroix, Dave Eggers, Sigur Rós, Mary Ellen Mark, Toyo Ito, Mike Figgis, Paula Scher, and Karim Rashid.
PKPR placed several terrific features on the book, many with slide shows and photo galleries of artists’ notebooks, in The Huffington Post, The Atlantic, Brain Pickings, Flavorwire, Mediabistro, Design Taxi, and more.
We especially loved the Fast Company review, which called it “one of those rare pieces of marketing that rewards a company and the consumer equally.”
Stay tuned for stories in upcoming issues of Elle Decor and Art News.
Dumbo Arts Festival
The 2012 Dumbo Arts Festival will take place from September 28-30, 2012. Last year, over 225,000 guests attended the festival, experiencing works by more than 500 artists, 100 open studios, 50 galleries and stages, and 100 programming partners in Brooklyn’s most celebrated waterfront neighborhood.
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Dumbo Art Festival Covers the Neighborhood in Color
Oct. 03, 2012
The 16th annual Dumbo Arts Festival took New York City by storm in September. The three day event boasted an eclectic schedule of works, performances, and exhibits by more than 500 artists.
From huge projections across historic buildings and the Manhattan Bridge to interactive performances in Brooklyn Bridge Park to whimsical art floating on the East River and in the sky, festival goers experienced a free feast for the senses.
PKPR made sure the crowds kept DUMBO packed all weekend by securing preview coverage in Time Out New York’s Best of the Fests, The New York Post’s Hot Picks, CBS New York, The Huffington Post, Fodor’s Travel Guides, Complex Magazine, The L Magazine and many more!
It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane!
Sep. 12, 2012
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No! It’s the Dumbo Arts Festival!
New Yorkers will have the opportunity to experience what it’s like to have superpowers at this year’s Dumbo Arts Festival, taking place from September 28-30.
Festival-goers will be able to fly across one of DUMBO’s landmark buildings, shift their shape and size, and throw light beams as part of Superhero, a large-scale outdoor experience that will be presented as the AT&T Signature Artwork at this year’s Festival.
PKPR secured coverage of Superhero in outlets from The Huffington Post and New York Observer’s Betabeat to DNAinfo.com and The Brooklyn Daily.
The Festival is also being highlighted as a top pick in many Fall Previews including Time Out New York, Time Out New York Kids, CBSNewYork, NYCGo and more!
Atlantic Avenue Business Improvement District
Representing over 300 businesses in Brooklyn�s vibrant Brooklyn Heights, Boerum Hill and Cobble Hill neighborhoods, the Atlantic Avenue Business Improvement District (AABID)provides local businesses with a variety of services, including marketing and promotion of the business boulevard; capital improvements, streetscape and beautification projects; advocacy and other programs and business services that improve economic conditions. To learn more about the Atlantic Avenue BID visit http://www.atlanticavebid.org/.
Visit the Atlantic Avenue Business Improvement District Website →
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Atlantic Avenue�s Sidewalk Extravaganza
Jun. 18, 2012
(Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez, BID director Josef Szende, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz at the ribbon cutting during the extravaganza).
The first-ever Atlantic Avenue Extravaganza presented by PKPR client, Atlantic Avenue Business Improvement District, was a resounding success. Celebrating the launch of the BID, a coalition of three hundred businesses along one of Brooklyn’s most famous boulevards hit the streets, literally bringing their business outside!
A jam-packed lineup of special events, performances, demonstrations, tastings, tours, games, and more brought Atlantic Avenue’s celebrated commerce, culture, and community to life.
PKPR made sure that the streets were bustling by securing coverage in Time Out New York’s Best of the Fests, amNY, Flavorpill , New York Post’s Hot Picks, New York Times, Brooklyn Exposed, Brooklyn Bugle, New York’s Grub Street, and many more!
Stampa
Making it possible and affordable for anyone to make a statement with beautiful artwork, Stampa showcases limited-edition prints by a roster of top illustrators, artists, and designers. The prints are made digitally, with archival inks and substrates; prices range from $100 for an unframed 8-by-10-inch print to $800 for an 18-by-24-inch framed print.
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Stampa in Cool Hunting, HGTV Father’s Day Guide
Jun. 07, 2012
For Father’s Day, Stampa is offering an exclusive print collection that puts a twist…or should we say a stitch…on the traditional Father’s Day gift.
Renowned for his playful, colorful artwork that is hand stitched or drawn, Stephen Campbell created prints of iconic Father’s Day items, including Old Spice, ties, and a #1 Dad coffee mug.
Coverage so far has included Cool Hunting, HGTV, TrendHunter, and Jordan Reid of Ramshackle Glam, who the New York Observer hailed as a new generation Martha Stewart.
The Knight Foundation
Brother John S. and James L. Knight built and ran one of America’s largest and most successful 20th century newspaper companies. The Knights formed Knight Foundation to support transformational ideas that promote quality journalism, advance media innovation, engage communities and foster the arts. We believe that democracy thrives when people and communities are informed and engaged.
Visit the The Knight Foundation Website →
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The Knight Foundation announces Public Space Fellows
Jun. 21, 2019
Seven innovators from across the United States were named Knight Public Spaces Fellows this week. The Fellows include leaders who created or influenced great public spaces that strengthened community engagement and connection, including Robert Hammond, Co-Founder and Executive Director of the High Line, and Erin Salazar, Founder and Executive Director of Exhibition District. Fellows each received $150,000 in recognition of their contributions and to advance their work.
PKPR helped coordinate coverage for the overall announcement, as well as individual coverage for each of the seven fellows.
Highlights included: Architect Magazine, Philadelphia Inquirer, San Jose Mercury News, The Architect’s Newspaper, SF Gate, Smart Cities Dive, Generocity, The Registry, Smart Cities World, and East Bay Times.
Knight study: Twitter still awash in fake news accounts
Oct. 11, 2018
More than 80 percent of accounts that repeatedly spread misinformation during the 2016 election campaign are still active, and they continue to publish more than one million tweets on a typical day, according to a study commissioned by The Knight Foundation released this week.
PKPR secured coverage in more than 30 major outlets including NPR, New York Post, Politico, Newsweek, The Daily Beast, Axios, Adweek, and TechCrunch
Knight announces $7.6M for AI and ethics projects
Jul. 23, 2017
A $27 million fund aimed at ensuring that artificial intelligence is developed in the public interest has announced its round of funding: $7.6 million, which will be split unequally between MIT’s Media Lab, Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center and seven smaller research efforts around the world. The fund was founded with initial support from Knight Foundation, Omidyar Network, LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman (pictured above), the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and Jim Pallotta. PKPR secured coverage for the announcement in outlets including TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Wired, and The Verge.
Reinventing libraries for 21st century
Jul. 08, 2016
Knight News Challenge on Libraries last week announced funding of $1.6 million for a range of innovative digital and data projects aimed at re-imagining libraries for the 21st century. Winners ranged from a free library program that uses internet video to connect incarcerated parents with their kids for storytime to a project aimed at increasing diverse perspectives (more than 90% of Wikipedia contributors are male) on Wikipedia by training librarians to assist their communities in editing and verifying Wikipedia entries.
Coverage of the winners included The Verge, Tech Insider, Mic, TakePart, Pacific Standard Magazine, Mental Floss, GeekWire, and The Christian Science Monitor.
Knight Awards $3M to Voting Projects
Jul. 31, 2015
With the nation gearing up for the 2016 elections, the Knight News Challenge on Elections in Austin last week awarded $3.2 million to a range of innovative projects that increase voter participation and better inform voters at both the national and local levels.
Outlets from The Huffington Post to VentureBeat looked at all of the winning projects, while many outlets provided deeper looks at individual winners. Highlights included:
- Gizmodo and Campaigns & Elections looked at a project aimed at making it easier to request and mail absentee ballots by smart phone
- The Guardian profiled a program that will recruit barbers in predominantly African-American communities to disseminate nonpartisan voting information and resources
- The Dailly Dot did a fantastic, in depth piece looking at a project that will expose “dark money” in campaign financing
- National Journal explored an AP project to create a more accurate alternative to exit polling
Knight Awards $3M to Library Innovation Projects
Feb. 04, 2015
Goodbye Dewey Decimal and welcome to the library of the 21st Century. The Knight Foundation this week awarded more than $3 million to projects that are reinventing the ways in which people experience and use the library.
Coverage highlights included Newsweek, VentureBeat, Fast Company, Boston Globe, Capital New York, Next City, EdSurge, Library Journal, GovTech, TechCocktail, StateTech, and ChicagoInno.
Knight Survey in USA Today
Sep. 30, 2014
Amid the national debates over free speech, surveillance, privacy and press freedom, a new survey by The Knight Foundation shows students are more supportive of First Amendment than adults for the first time in a decade, with the heaviest consumers of digital media expressing strongest support:
PKPR placed an infographic in USA Today, as well as stories in numerous outlets including The Guardian, San Jose Mercury News, Pando Daily, Reason, The Blaze, and Town Hall.
Knight News Challenge in NPR, HuffPo, FastCo
Jun. 25, 2014
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Winners of the 2014 Knight News Challenge, which funds projects that promote an open Internet that is free and accessible to all, were announced at the 2014 MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference in Boston last week.
The winners included a mix of projects aimed at safeguarding online free speech, privacy, and security, as well as two innovative programs in New York City and Chicago that will lend Wi-Fi hotspot devices to families and students without high-speed Internet access.
Coverage of the winners included: NPR, The Atlantic’s CityLab, Fast Company, The Verge, The Huffington Post, Education Week, The Hill, TechPresident, Library Journal, Social Times, Capital New York, Tech.co, Governing, MediaBistro, BostInno, MadameNoire, GovTech, and StateTech.
Knight Awards $2.2M to Health Startups
Jan. 17, 2014
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At the Clinton Health Matters conference in Palm Springs, the Knight Foundation announced $2.2 million in funding for seven startups that harness the power of health data in innovative ways to improve public health. The startups were the winners of The Knight News Challenge on Health.
Coverage highlights included a fantastic Fast Company piece with the headline “7 Brilliant Ideas to Make Health Data More Useful,” as well as stories in MediaBistro, Columbia Journalism Review, GovTech, MedCity News, iHealthBeat, and Healthcare Informatics.
Knight report: Civic Tech startups are booming
Dec. 10, 2013
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Ashton Kutcher, Google, and Omidyar Network are among the top investors leading a $430 million funding surge in startups aimed at making government more effective and citizens more engaged, according to the first-ever report on the rapidly emerging civic tech field released by the Knight Foundation last week.
PKPR secured extensive coverage for the report’s findings including: Bloomberg, Inc., The Atlantic, Fast Company, Washington Post, PandoDaily, GigaOm, Upstart, Tech President, Next City, Nonprofit Quarterly, and NextGov,
Mobile News Projects Win Knight News Challenge
Jan. 30, 2013
Ranging from projects that turn no-frills mobile phones into radio stations to applications that help newsrooms manage a deluge of incoming mobile content, eight media innovation ventures this week received a total of $2.4 million as winners of the Knight News Challenge: Mobile.
Coverage of the winning projects included AllThingsD, Fast Company, VentureBeat, PandoDaily, Social Times, New York Observer BetaBeat, TechPresident, Mediabistro, Jounalism.co.uk, and Columbia Journalism Review.
WellTech
WellTech is an incubator targeting startups and companies using technology to create new, consumer-facing health and wellness solutions. It is founded by investors and executives behind SpaFinder Wellness, the world’s leading spa and wellness resource, and GramercyOne, whose cloud-based business management software is used by more than 5,800 spas, gyms, medical practices and other local service businesses worldwide.
Visit the WellTech Website →
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Incubator for Health & Wellness Startups Launches
Apr. 03, 2012
WellTech, a new health and wellness-focused incubator, launched this week with a duo of startups dedicated to changing how consumers pursue wellness and healthy living, FITiST and Wizpert.
Headquartered in New York’s Gramercy neighborhood, WellTech targets startups and companies using technology to create new, consumer-facing health and wellness solutions. WellTech will provide startups with strategic guidance, such as industry expertise and networking, office space, mentoring and marketing support. Participants will receive a minimum $50,000 in capital to help them grow their business and also will have potential access to future rounds of capital from WellTech and other introduced investors.
PKPR placed stories on the launch in Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, The Next Web, MedCityNews, New York Observer’s Betabeat, mHealthNews, Crain’s New York, MobiHealth News, and iMedicalApps.
Theatre Y
Theatre Y was founded in 2006, by actor Melissa Hawkins and director Christopher Markle. The company is steeped in the theatrical traditions of Eastern Europe, which Chris Markle advanced until his death in 2008. Chris had a long artistic partnership with the Romanian director Liviu Culei and worked with other primal masters of the Eastern European theatre, including Luciane Pintilie and Taduesz Kantor.
Visit the Theatre Y Website →
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New York Times Rave for Theatre Y
Feb. 27, 2012
In a rare review of an Off Off Broadway show, Ben Brantley of The New York Times gave Theatre Y’s production of I Killed My Mother a rave review this week, saying that “Karin Coonrod’s stark, poetic production is performed with feral fierceness by Andrew Hampton Livingston and the uncanny Melissa Lorraine Hawkin.” Other reviews included The New York Post, Backstage, Theatremania, and NYTheatre.
Public Radio Exchange (PRX)
PRX’s mission is to help diverse voices and awesome audio stories reach and inform millions of people through its innovative digital platforms, applications and services. From building apps for This American Life to distributing The Moth Radio Hour to hundreds of public radio stations across the country, PRX is breaking new ground in public media.
Visit the Public Radio Exchange (PRX) Website →
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Buzz for Radiotopia’s storytelling superstars
Apr. 06, 2016
Over the past few months, PKPR has secured feature stories on The Heart and Criminal, two of the podcasts on the Radiotopia network that are shaping the future of storytelling. Here are a few of the highlights…
The Heart: Kaitlin Prest and Mitra Kaboli document the most intimate, joyful, unusual, and crushing moments of human relationships
- Business Insider: Why podcasts feel so good when they talk about sex
- Huffington Post: Sex advice with the women of The Heart podcast
- Bustle: Seven podcasts that make you feel hopeful about love
Criminal: Phoebe Judge and Lauren Spohrer explore people who’ve done wrong, been wronged, or gotten caught somewhere in the middle.
- Huffington Post: Before Serial, two women set out to bring true crime to podcasts
- Tech Times: Criminal creator talks podcast success and the obsession with true crime stories
Radiotopia launches “Project Greenlight for podcasters”
Mar. 18, 2016
Aiming to discover the next podcasting star, Radiotopia today launchedPodquest, a competition that will give three finalists $10,000 and professional support to develop a podcast that could join the ranks of the network’s story-driven breakout hits like 99% Invisible, Criminal, and Song Exploder. PKPR kicked off the search with an exclusive story in Fast Company.
Song Exploder in SPIN, Vox, Gigwise
Oct. 09, 2015
PKPR placed three terrific interviews recently in SPIN, Vox, and Gigwise with Hirishikesh Hirway, the musical mastermind behind the hit Radiotopia podcast Song Exploder.
PRX in Fast Co’s Most Innovative Companies
Feb. 10, 2015
PRX received not one, but three shout outs in the March 2015 issue.
- PRX was named one of the world’s 10 most innovative media companies
- Radiotopia, its podcast network, was named one of the ten most innovative companies of Kickstarter
- Jake Shapiro, CEO of PRX, is interviewed in an in depth feature article: The Future of Media is Podcasting
Boston Globe profiles PRX founder Jake Shapiro
Jan. 11, 2015
Terrific profile of PRX founder & CEO Jake Shapiro in today’s Boston Globe.
PRX featured in The Verge’s Top Shelf Series
Dec. 05, 2014
Jake Shapiro of PRX is featured prominently in the fantastic episode of The Verge’s Top Shelf series looking at the innovators leading the new podcasting revolution.
PRX Launches Radiotopia Podcast Network
Feb. 14, 2014
To establish a model for sustaining quality, story-driven public radio shows, PRX last week launched Radiotopia, a podcast network of the best emerging and established talent. The launch is supported by $200,000 from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
Radiotopia is anchored by 99% Invisible, the popular design and architecture podcast hosted and produced by Roman Mars. Other podcasts in the inaugural lineup include Radio Diaries, Benjamen Walker’s Theory of Everything, and Strangers, a fascinating look at how people connect in the modern world created by Lea Thau, former executive and creative director of The Moth.
Coverage of the launch included an interview with Mars on BoingBoing’s Gweek podcast, USA Today, The Guardian, The Verge, Mediabistro, Columbia Journalism Review, Nieman Journalism Lab, Current, Radio Survivor, and All Access.
PRX in USA Today
Oct. 05, 2013
PRX and The Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) this week debuted a pilot for public radio’s first-ever investigative reporting series featuring an exclusive report and data analysis revealing how the Department of Veteran Affairs has overprescribed opiates to veterans since 9/11.
As a result of PKPR’s outreach, USA Today media editor Rem Reider dedicated his weekly column to an in depth look at the series, heralding it as “very cool for a number of reasons.”
“For one thing, the advent of a new source of investigative reporting is always welcome news,” wrote Reider. “And the partnership highlights a number of encouraging trends that have emerged in the midst of the often-depressing news about traditional news organizations.”
PRX Remix App Gets Love from USA Today, Guardian
Jul. 12, 2013
PRX this week launched the PRX Remix, a free app that brings listeners a curated mix of the most compelling radio stories, interviews, audio documentaries, and intriguing sounds from indie-produced features to podcast gems like The Moth, StoryCorps, 99% Invisible, The Kitchen Sisters, and WTF with Marc Maron. Aiming to be the greatest radio station of all time in your pocket, PRX Remix showcases a virtually endless stream of ear candy handpicked from all corners of the audio universe by PRX program director and 99% Invisible host Roman Mars (above).
Raves for the new came in from around the web including USA Today, The Guardian, Mediabistro, Current, and Nieman Journalism Lab.
Public Radio Player app in Techcrunch, PandoDaily
Mar. 15, 2013
Public Radio Exchange (PRX) released the first update in three years to its popular Public Radio Player iPhone app, which features a completely new interface and visual design. The free app was also updated to offer the best experience for streaming audio from over 500 public radio stations and 1,000 programs either live, on demand, and even offline.
Through targeted outreach under embargo, PKPR secured day of launch coverage in Techcrunch, PandoDaily, Mediabistro, Columbia Journalism Review, App Advice, All App News, and the Philadelphia Daily News
PRX’s ‘99% Invisible’ Breaks Kickstarter Record
Aug. 27, 2012
99% Invisible, a “tiny radio show about design” that is distributed by Public Radio Exchange (PRX), raised $170,477 from 5,661 backers, making it Kickstarter’s most funded journalism campaign ever!
Hosted by Roman Mars, who has been dubbed “the Ira Glass of design” by The New York Times design columnist Allison Arieff, 99% Invisible is the latest public radio show and podcast distributed by PRX to become a runaway hit. It recently reached #1 on the iTunes podcast charts, as well as #1 in both the Arts and Design categories.
PKPR leveraged 99% Invisible’sKickstarter success to get the program and PRX coverage in Mediabistro, Current, Core77, East Bay Express, and Smart Planet.
PRX’s Bullied Special Makes Headlines
Mar. 23, 2012
With bullying in schools and on the Internet dominating the headlines, a new Public Radio Exchange special brought a fresh perspective to the issue with a collection of stories produced, reported, and hosted by teens who have experienced bullying firsthand or have been bullies themselves.
“Bullied: Teen Stories from Generation PRX” offered an hour of thought-provoking personal accounts, interviews, and examinations of bullying produced and told by youth reporters from Maine to Alaska to Sweden. Coverage of special ranged from a live interview and feature on Fox News to Huffington Post.
Public Media Accelerator in Mashable
Mar. 09, 2012
PKPR is thrilled to be working with Public Radio Exchange (PRX) on developing the media strategy for the Public Media Accelerator, a $2.5 million tech incubator that aims to do for public broadcasting what accelerators like Code for America and RockHealth are doing for government and health care, respectively.
In advance of a series of events at SXSW Interactive, PKPR placed an exclusive with Mashable announcing that PRX hired Corey Ford, director of Innovation Endeavors’ Runway program, the start-up incubator at Eric Schmidt’s early stage venture capital firm, and former producer for the Emmy Award-winning PBS series FRONTLINE, has been tapped as the Public Media Accelerator’s director. Ford will oversee the program which will invest in mission-driven entrepreneurs from media, technology, and design to build ventures with the potential to reshape the future of public media.
Other coverage of the announcement included TechCrunch, Niemen Journalism Lab, Current, and Radio World.
Stay tuned for more news in the coming months!
Time Inc.
Time Inc., a division of Time Warner, is a world class branded content company, engaging more than 138 million consumers monthly across multiple platforms. With 22 magazines and 27 web sites in the U.S., it is the country�s largest consumer publisher. Each month, one out of every two American adults reads a Time Inc. magazine, and one out of every five, who are online, visits a company web site (more than 50 million monthly unique visitors). Time Inc.�s popular brands and successful franchises extend to online, mobile and tablets, television, video events and branded products.
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Time Inc.‘s 10 NYC Startups to Watch @ Internet Week
May. 23, 2013
For the third year in a row, PKPR handled PR for Time Inc.‘s annual Internet Week New York event - 10 NYC Startups to Watch. More than 30 journalists attended the party at the brand new Hudson Commons, where they had a chance to interview founders of the honored startups.
Techcrunch TV did three segments on honorees: Grouper (below), FiftyThree, and Fitocracy. Other coverage highlights included a Fox Business segment and articles in The New York Daily News and am New York (above).
Time Inc. Hosts 2nd Annual 10 NYC Startups to Watch
May. 18, 2012
For the second year in a row, PKPR managed publicity for Time Inc’s 10 NYC Startups To Watch, which has quickly become one of the flagship annual events of Internet Week New York. TechCrunch called it a “pretty badass party” and New York Observer’s BetaBeat named it one one of the “ten must-see events of Internet Week.”
More than 50 journalists attended the event, filing on-the-scene stories featuring interviews with founders of Codecademy, Artsy, Fab, Stamped, and the other honored startups. Highlights of the coverage included a TechCrunch TV segment, in depth stories in Adweek, Fox Business, WNET’s MetroFocus, and Portfolio, and a slideshow on PCMag.com profiling each of the startups.
Slavery Footprint
Slavery Footprint is a non-profit organization dedicated to ending forced labor, human trafficking, and modern day slavery through increased public awareness, action, and advocacy. The organization’s flagship initiative, developed in collaboration with the State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, is an online survey and mobile app that enables consumers to both quantify the role of forced labor in their own lifestyles and to take action in market place. In addition to its digital activism tools, Slavery Footprint conducts community education and mobilization programs throughout the country.
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Slavery Footprint profiled by Associated Press
Dec. 30, 2011
PKPR secured a major feature on Slavery Footprint by the Associated Press. Written by reporter Beth Duff-Brown, the in-depth profile of founder Justin Dillon explored his journey from musician to filmmaker to anti-slavery crusader. The article has been picked up far and wide - from Yahoo! News to CBS News.
Slavery Footprint Hits One Million Milestone
Nov. 18, 2011
We are thrilled to announce that more than one million people from around the world have calculated their Slavery Footprint. The creators of the site estimated they would reach this major milestone by the end of the year, but extensive media coverage and social media buzz accelerated the site’s momentum.
PKPR continues to secure major coverage for Slavery Footprint. Recent highlights include The Washington Post, TechCrunch TV (Check out clip below), Oprah.com, The Consumerist, MSNBC.com, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, The Guardian, Treehugger, UTNE, Food Republic, Bust Magazine, The Hairpin, and The Social Times.
Slavery Footprint Creators Profiled in Adweek
Oct. 24, 2011
Slavery Footprint gets the full-page treatment in this week’s issue of Adweek. The creators of the website, Justin Dillon of Slavery Footprint and John Matejczyk of MUH·TAY·ZIK | HOF·FER, were photographed for the magazine’s weekly Portraits page, which spotlights groundbreaking marketing campaigns. PKPR developed the concept for the photo, which features the creators holding scores representing the numbers of slaves working for them as calculated by the Slavery Footprint site.
Slavery Footprint Launches at Clinton Global Initiative
Sep. 23, 2011
If you are reading this on a smart phone or laptop, you have at have at least three slaves working for you, according to Slavery Footprint.
Aiming to personalize the complex issue of modern slavery, the provocative website and app provides consumers with an eye-opening assessment of how much their lifestyle depends on forced labor, as well as the tools to take action in the marketplace to begin creating a more free world.
PKPR is proud to be representing this groundbreaking initiative which was developed by Slavery Footprint, a non-profit dedicated to ending modern day slavery, in collaboration with the State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons.
PKPR developed and implemented a comprehensive strategy for the launch of the initiative, which was unveiled on the 149th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York City this week. We placed major launch day stories in outlets such as CNN Money (shared more than 2000 times on Facebook and Twitter), Fast Company, and Voice of America. Other launch coverage highlights included The New York Times, Huffington Post, Wired, GOOD, and Mother Nature News.
The Final Edition
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Friendfactor
Friendfactor is a non-profit organization dedicated to making it easy for straight friends to help their gay friends achieve full legal freedoms,
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Friendfactor helps win marriage equality in NY
Jun. 28, 2011
PKPR was proud to play a role in the historic passage of same-sex marriage in New York State through our work with Friendfactor, a new non-profit that makes it easy for friends and family to support their gay loved ones. Friendfactor is one of the many organizations that came together under one united strategy to campaign for marriage equality in New York.
Through Friendfactor, more than 1,100 people set up their own personal campaign pages where friends could call their State Senator with just the click-of-a-mouse. After entering their zip code and phone number, friends automatically received a phone call connecting them directly to their State Senator’s office.
The list of people using Friendfactor to inspire their friends and family to make calls includes:
• Christine Quinn
• Cynthia Nixon
• Ron Zacchi, executive director of Marriage Equality New York
• Lance Bass
• Andy Towle
• Chelsea Handler
• Kirstin Gillibrand
• Sarah Silverman
PKPR secured coverage of Friendfactor’s innovative campaign in outlets including The New York Times (Want to Call Your Senator? Advocates Make It Easy), CBS News, New York Daily News, and New York Observer.
New York Classical Theatre
Described as “a moveable feast: by the New York Times, New York Classical Theatre has won acclaim for its roving productions of classical plays by Shakespeare, Shaw, Moliere, and more in Central Park, Battery Park and the World Financial Center. Founded by Stephen Burdman in 2000, the company has performed 23 free plays for more than 85,000 spectators.
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A Glowing NY Times Review for The Tempest
Jun. 06, 2013
New York Classical Theatre’s roving production of The Seagull in Central Park receives a glowing review by critic Anita Gates in today’s New York Times. Next stop: the company makes it Brooklyn debut in Prospect Park on June 25th.
On Land and Sea, Henry V Draws Crowds
Jul. 15, 2011
In a summer filled with Shakespeare productions in New York City, PKPR helped New York Classical Theatre’s production of Henry V stand out from the crowd. It didn’t hurt that the production, part of The River To River Festival, was performed on both land and sea, with the audience and actors alike taking a ferry to Governors Island for the play’s famous battle scenes.
Highlights included a glowing review and photo gallery in the New York Times, two segments on WNYC, and features in the Wall Street Journal, New York Observer, New York Magazine, New York Post, and the New York Daily News.
Brooklyn Youth Chorus
Now in its eighteenth season, the GRAMMY® Award-winning Brooklyn Youth Chorus (BYC) is one of the country’s leading children’s choruses and is the ensemble of choice for internationally renowned orchestras and artists. The Chorus has performed with renowned artists such as Elton John, Nico Muhly, Lou Reed and John Legend, and has performed under the batons of Marin Alsop, Robert Spano, Leon Botstein, and many others. In 2002, BYC debuted with the New York Philharmonic under Lorin Maazel in On the Transmigration of Souls, for which the Chorus won a GRAMMY® Award.
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New Mizrahi Duds for Brooklyn Youth Chorus
May. 14, 2011
One of the world’s most celebrated youth choirs is now also the best-dressed, thanks to acclaimed fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi.
The Grammy Award-winning Brooklyn Youth Chorus Academy, which has performed with the likes of Elton John, Lou Reed, and Sufjan Steven, premiered it new line of choir robes custom-designed by the Brooklyn-born fashion icon during a performance with Manchester Orchestra on Late Night with David Letterman on May 12th.
“They had me at Brooklyn,” Mizrahi told the Daily News.
Check out their performance on Letterman below.
PIN
PKPR is the U.S. partner of PIN, an international network of public relations firms created by London-based Paratus Communications. As a PIN partner, PKPR develops and implements U.S. strategy for Paratus Communications’ international clients.
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RAIN (Replenish Africa Initiative)
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Rock & Roll Circus
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Rock & Roll Circus at Lincoln Center
Jan. 12, 2011
The Rock & Roll Circus was a two-day, three-ring, musical extravaganza featuring Ariel Pink, Amazing Baby, Nick Zinner and Aska, Saint Motel, contortionist, acrobats, and more under the 40,000 square foot Big Apple Circus Tent at Lincoln Center on January 3rd and 4th.
Picking up where the best of 1968’s legendary rock superstars left off, the all-new Rock & Roll Circus was a raucous, cutting-edge marriage of the best of circus spectacle and today’s top musicians
Coverage included NBC New York, New York Press, BrooklynVegan, Stereogum, Village Voice, FREEwilliamsburg, The Fader, Flavorpill, Huffington Post, SPIN, PAPER, New York Times, BlackBook, WNYC, This Week in New York, and Bumpershine,
STELLAService
Dedicated to helping consumers make more informed online shopping decisions, STELLAService is the first and only independent provider of customer service ratings for online retailers. Using its proprietary, rigorous evaluation system, STELLAService rates thousands of retailers each year across a broad array of criteria, including usability and online tools, shipping and returns and customer support.
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Holidays are around the corner
Dec. 19, 2012
....and STELLAService knows which retailers will get your gifts delivered on time.
Just in time for Free Shipping Day, STELLAService released the average shipping times for the top 25 internet retailers.
Everyone from Buzzfeed and The Huffington Post to Kiplinger, Boston Globe, and The Budget Fashionista wanted to make sure their readers got their gifts on time! Will your gift arrive by Christmas?
Slate, Time cover STELLAService Back-to-School Study
Aug. 29, 2012
In advance of Back to School shopping season, STELLAService studied just how much money shoppers save by purchasing school supplies on sites such as Walmart.com and Staples.com instead of going to the stores themselves. Their finding: the firm’s mystery shoppers spent significantly more to buy the same or comparable items online as they did offline.
Coverage of the STELLAService study included: CNBC, Time, Slate, PCMag, US News & World Report, and Consumerist.
YOU’VE GOT MAIL… not that it’s helpful
Jun. 27, 2012
Next time you’ve got a question while shopping online, think twice before firing off an email if you are expecting a helpful answer.
A study by STELLAService found that retailers answer customer emails completely just 54% of the time. There was some good news, however, for shoppers. Among the top 25 retailers, LLBean.com answered nearly 90% of customer emails thoroughly.
PKPR secured an exclusive with Mashable. Additional coverage ranged from The Consumerist to Fox Business to Yahoo! Shine
STELLAService Facebook Survey on CNN
Apr. 05, 2012
Revealing that many retailers still need to refine their social media manners, one quarter of twenty top brands surveyed failed to respond to customer service questions posted on their Facebook pages, according to a test conducted by STELLAService.
PKPR secured an exclusive on the survey on CNN.com and placed stories in numerous outlets including Time, PC World, CNET, PCMag.com, ZDNet, Mashable, Technorati, Entrepreneur, Mediabistro’s All Facebook, Brandchannel, and MarketingVox.
STELLAService Rules Holiday Coverage
Jan. 03, 2012
STELLAService finished 2011 with a bang, garnering coverage near and far for its studies of the retailers with fastest shipping, call support, and refunds. Wall Street Journal, Lucky Magazine, MSN Money, Time, Aol Daily Finance, Smart Money, Business Insider, SheKnows, Consumerist, and The Street are just of the few many outlets that now turn to STELLAService for insight on consumer trends and news.
STELLAService in Real Simple
Oct. 13, 2011
PKPR secured a perfect placement for STELLAService in the November issue of Real Simple (circulation 1.9 million). For a seven-page feature on Shopping Smart, Real Simple created the special graphic above to illustrate STELLAService’s research on the retailers with the fastest phone support.
Retailers Ditching Automated Phone Menus?
Aug. 25, 2011
A new study released today brings good news for consumers fed up with being forced into the abyss of automated phone menus.
According to the STELLAService study, 21 of the Internet’s top 100 retailers, including Amazon.com, Blue Nile, LL Bean, Nordstrom, and Neiman Marcus, connect callers directly to live representatives, enabling them to avoid the endless maze of music, machines, and menu prompts used by most retailers.
The study also reveals that consumers can count on these 21 retailers for significantly shorter hold times. Overall, retailers that force customers into automated phone menus or IVRs (Interactive Voice Response) keep shoppers on hold for an average of 1 minute and 51 seconds, a 117 percent increase over the average hold time (51 seconds) for retailers that do not use automated phone menus.
Coverage of the study ranged from Yahoo! Finance (garnering more than 1200 comments and 600 Facebook recommendations to date) and Internet Retailer to Time.com and The Consumerist.
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, has been a leading voice for arts and culture downtown and throughout New York City for almost 40 years, producing cultural events and promoting the arts through grants, services, advocacy, and cultural development programs.
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Xu Bing Exhibit in Wall Street Journal
Sep. 12, 2011
To mark the tenth anniversary of September 11th, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council presented the U.S. premiere of “Where Does the Dust Itself Collect?” by artist Xu Bing.
Utilizing dust that Xu Bing collected from the streets of Lower Manhattan in the aftermath of 9/11, the installation recreates a 25-by-20-foot field of dust across the gallery floor that is punctuated by the outline of a Chan Buddhist poem, revealed as if the letters have been removed from under the dust. The powerful piece was featured in outlets from the Wall Street Journal to NY1.
LMCC Commemorates September 11th
Sep. 09, 2011
To commemorate the ten-year anniversary of September 11th, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC), a former World Trade Center tenant, launched InSite: Art + Commemoration, a series of free public arts events and a special multimedia website that reflect on a decade of recovery, visioning and change in Downtown New York.
Founded shortly after the World Trade Center’s opening in 1972, LMCC has brought art and culture to Downtown New York for nearly 40 years. On September 11, 2001 when the towers were destroyed, LMCC lost one of its artists-in-residence, Michael Richards, along with its offices, residency spaces, and cultural archives. Since then, LMCC has spearheaded efforts to rebuild the neighborhood through ambitious arts projects, including a $5 million Downtown Cultural Grants initiative, the River To River® Festival, now in its tenth season, and the transformation of more than 300,000 square feet of vacant real estate into artist studios and exhibition spaces.
PKPR implemented a comprehensive strategy that included securing an in depth feature on the history of LMCC’s work in the Wall Street Journal - “Arts Continue to Blossom in Post 9/11 Manhattan”—a segment on WNYC’s Leonard Lopate Show, and features in Newsday and The New York Daily News. LMCC’s initiative was also prominently included in round-ups of anniversary arts events, such as Associated Press, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, WNYC, WNET, Metropolis Magazine, Art in America, and ArtNet.
A Floating Poem on Governors Island
Sep. 02, 2011
Hundreds of balloons featuring hand-written lines of poetry contributed by visitors created a floating poem at LMCC’s Building 110 on Governors Island. Created by The Cause Collective, the installation was covered by numerous outlets including WNYC, Tribeca Citizen, Village Voice, New York Observer, Bloomberg.com, ArtSlant, Gothamist, and NY Art Beat.
LMCC in Wall Street Journal
May. 10, 2011
On the eve of Governors Island opening for the summer, PKPR placed a feature in the Wall Street Journal on Building 110, a former military warehoused transformed into open arts studios and exhibition space by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.
FashionPlaytes
FashionPlaytes.com is the first design-it-yourself fashion destination site for girls ages 5-12. The site lets girls be fashion designers and create a line of clothing they can actually wear. With over 5 million design combinations, FashionPlaytes.com offers a fun, creative outlet for self-expression and engaging shared experiences for girls worldwide.
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FashionPlaytes Profiled in Family Circle
Apr. 16, 2012
PKPR secured a terrific piece on FashionPlaytes founder Sarah McIlroy in the May 2012 issue of Family Circle. Sarah and her daughters are profiled in a feature story on moms who founded successful businesses with their families.
FashionPlaytes in Parents Magazine
Sep. 16, 2011
FashionPlaytes is showcased as a “must have” in the October 2011 issue Parents Magazine (circulation 2.2. million)
FashionPlaytes in Working Mother, PBS Kids
May. 17, 2011
FashionPlaytes, which lets young girls design and wear their own outfits, continues to win raves from influential parenting outlets. Working Mother, PBS Kids, Yahoo! Shine, BabyCenter, and Imagination Soup are just a few of the high-profile pubs that have recently sung its praises.
Zeckendorf Towers
Zeckendorf Towers is a 670 unit, mixed-use condominium located on Union Square. The distinctive four-tower, pyramid-topped, building is a common site to all who are familiar with the area. The building features landscaped roof gardens and courtyards, a full service health club, and a sky lobby supplementing the services provided by the street level concierge. Zeckendorf Towers was first opened for occupancy in 1987, and is credited with initiating the re-vitalization of the Union Square area. Maxwell Kates’ on-site staff has been managing the building since 1991.
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NYC now home to largest smoke-free building in U.S.
May. 27, 2013
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Zeckendorf Towers is now the largest smoke-free residential building in the country thanks to a vote taken this week by the building’s residents. PKPR secured coverage for groundbreaking measure in outlets including New York Post, NY1, WNYW, Globe St. The Real Deal, Real Estate Weekly, Gothamist, Curbed New York, and Brick Underground.
NYC’s Largest Residential Green Roof Unveiled
Dec. 18, 2010
Zeckendorf Towers, the famed pyramid-topped building that initiated the revitalization of Union Square more than 20 years ago, set a new benchmark for the booming neighborhood with the opening of the city’s largest residential green roof last month.
Located at One Irving Place, the 14,000 square-foot green roof will put the full block, mixed-use property at the forefront of New York City’s new green roof initiative. In late September, Mayor Michael Bloomberg kicked off NYC Green Infrastructure, a major campaign aimed at integrating infrastructure, such as green roofs, to improve water and air quality, cool the City, and reduce energy bills and greenhouse gas emissions.
Coverage included a front page Sunday real estate section story in the New York Times, NY1, Metro NY, Crain’s NY Business , Curbed NY, DNAinfo and Real Estate Weekly.
New York Opera Society
The New York Opera Society (NYOS) benefits artists and audiences alike through high quality, performance-driven, just-in-time productions here and abroad, offering fresh and sometimes provocative interpretations of contemporary and classical works.
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Opera on Internet Addiction Stirs Controversy
Nov. 23, 2010
In a world increasingly dominated by texts and tweets, a timely new opera offered a digital-age take on the time-honored tragic heroine.
“The Empty Hours” (Las Horas Vacias) by acclaimed Spanish composer Ricardo Llorca had its staged world premiere at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall on November 19th. The tale of a lonely woman whose obsession with the internet fuels an extraordinary fantasy world, “The Empty Hours” was presented by the New York Opera Society in a special, one-night only performance.
PKPR secured an in-depth feature on the opera in the Wall Street Journal (“The Music of Modern Mania”), and previews on WNET’s Sunday Arts, WNYC, and TheaterMania.
We also leveraged the opera’s Internet theme to generate buzz in outlets like Time.com, Wired.com, Time Out New York, and Mediabistro.
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zozi.com
zozi.com believes that everyone should experience what this amazing world has to offer. The site enables customers to easily find and book deals - locally and around the world - at up to 80% off. Think sailing school, kayaking tours, fire-eating lessons, cooking classes, dance lessons, wine tasting, trekking, racecar driving, and more.
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zozi.com in Cosmopolitan
Oct. 03, 2011
PKPR placed a great item on zozi in the October issue of Cosmopolitan (circulation: 3 million), which highlighted the site as “a Groupon for adrenaline junkies.”
zozi in Techcrunch, WSJ All Things D
Jun. 03, 2011
Strengthening its position as the leader in truly unique local activities and travel experiences, zozi announced this week that it raised $7 million in funding, bringing the company’s lifetime financing to $10 million. The announcement made headlines around the Web, including Techcrunch (we loved the headline: zozi raises $7 million to let you swim with sharks…at a discount.), WSJ’s All Things D, PaidContent (which named zozi one of the “next big players in the daily deals space”), Xconomy, Tnooz, San Francisco Business Times, and Silicon Valley Wire.
Compagnia de’ Colombari
Compagnia de Colombari is an international collaborative of performing artists born in Orvieto, Italy, and based in New York City. Colombari is dedicated to new and old works from diverse traditions and cultures, creating spectacles for the public free of charge.
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Medieval Play Comes to Life on NYC Streets
Dec. 20, 2010
The medieval mystery play got a 21st century update in December when the Christmas story was brought to life on the streets of New York City through a raucous mix of music, dance, song, and drink.
In Strangers and Other Angels, Manhattan’s Morningside Heights became the backdrop for a wild, joyful re-imagination of the centuries-old Second Shepherd’s Play. The production wound inside and outside venues throughout the neighborhood, from Sakura Park near Riverside Church to the Union Theological Seminary. Gathering crowds along the way, the performance culminated with a celebratory dance involving the entire cast and audience and food and drink for all to share.
PKPR placed stories in NY Daily News, WNYC, Metro NY, NY1, Time Out New York Kids, NY Press and New York Times.
Walt Whitman Returns to Streets of New York City
May. 17, 2010
Walt Whitman’s masterpiece “Song of Myself” was brought to life in neighborhoods throughout his beloved New York in a stirring music-theater adaptation making it world debut earlier this month.
From May 5-14, Compagnia de’ Colombari presented MORE OR LESS I AM in venues ranging from the poet’s Long Island birthplace to Grant’s Tomb. The play was conceived and directed by company founder Karin Coonrod, with music by members of the genre-defying string ensemble Brooklyn Rider.
PKPR handled publicity for the roving production, securing a glowing review from The New Yorker’s Ian Crouch, who wrote: “For an hour, it felt as though we’d created, audience and performers together, a real community. To risk sounding trite, we’d become Whitman’s Americans living in his America.”
Other coverage included features in Newsday, American Theater Magazine, Gay City News, and The Brooklyn Paper, as well as previews in Theatermania, Time Out New York, The Village Voice, and This Week in New York.
Bryce & Co.
Featured in outlets from Elle Décor to In Style and found in the homes of such fans as Alex Rodriquez and Helena Christensen, Bryce & Co.’s menswear-inspired line is made in New York City by a team of tailors using sartorial touches like pickstitching, binding and hand-finishing. The collection, created by former menswear designer Douglas Bryce, is distinctive for weaving cashmere, fine cotton and silk into classic tailored patterns like check, pinstripe chalk stripe and herringbone.
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Bryce & Co. Holiday Store in West Village
Dec. 21, 2009
PKPR helped publicize the launch of Bryce & Co.‘s Luxorious Home, a special holiday store opened by our friend Douglas Bryce. The West Village pop-up featured a collection of throws, pillows, and scarves boasting the sartorial style of hand-tailored suits and custom shirts. Coverage included Thrillist, NYMag.com, Racked, New York Times, Fashion Prospectress, Apartment Therapy, LelaLuxe, and more.
Vintage Magazine
Vintage Magazine, launched in November 2009, is a celebration of design, culture, and the creative possibilities of print. Inspired by Fleur Cowles’ legendary Flair (published 1950-51), Vintage Magazine invites an eclectic roster of writers and artists to survey the historic impact of art, music, fashion, food, travel, and more. In both its content and artful construction, the biannual magazine embodies the word “vintage” in its broadest sense - one that connotes style, excellence, and timeless elegance.
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Raves for Second Issue of Vintage Magazine
Nov. 08, 2010
“A reading experience so unique, there could never be an app for that.” - San Francisco Chronicle
“The mag illuminates the possibilities of print.” - The National Post
“Perusing Vintage is like sipping a Tanqueray and tonic at the Raffles Hotel in Singapore—a pleasurable blast from the past.” - Mediapost
Those are just a few of the accolades the press has heaped upon the much-anticipated second issue of Vintage Magazine. Other fans range from influential design critic Stephen Heller, who writes the Visuals column for the New York Times Book Review to Mr. Magazine to BettyConfidential.
Vintage Magazine Named a Top Launch of ‘09
Nov. 20, 2009
In a world of Kindles and tweets, the launch of Vintage Magazine offered a timely reminder of the pleasures and power of the printed page.
Showcasing a treasure trove of textures, fonts, folds, and die-cuts. Vintage Magazine’s celebration of print earned it high marks from a wide range of outlets - from a Brilliant Highbrow citation in New York Magazine’s Approval Matrix to the distinction of one of the top 25 magazine launches from the influential Media Industry Newsletter. Thanks to coverage in Women’s Wear Daily, Cool Hunting, Mr. Magazine, Folio, Library Journal, and many more outlets, the premiere issue sold out. Stay tuned for issue #2 in May 2010.
Wonderwall from MSN
Wonderwall is MSN’s exclusive celebrity destination. Launch in February 2009, it has quickly become the #2 celebrity site on the Web, with over 11MM unique users coming to the site every month. Its innovative design, based on a dynamic wall of photos scrolling horizontall, and its witty editorial tone makes it stand out in the crowded digital celebrity space.
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Parents Circle - Family Forum
Parents Circle-Family Forum is a grassroots organization of Israeli and Palestinian families who have lost loved ones in the region’s conflict. Dedicated to promoting peace and reconciliation rather than revenge, PCFF spreads its message through such initiatives as youth seminars, lectures, and public dialogues. In 2009, it will present over 1,000 programs in Arab and Israeli schools throughout Israel.
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Arts Brookfield
With an emphasis on commissioned works, site-specific installations and premieres, Arts Brookfield is the largest year-round, free performing arts and cultural presenter on the East coast.
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Theatre for One in NY Times, New Yorker, AP
Jun. 06, 2015
Arts Brookfield’s presentation of I’m Not the Stranger You Think I Am, a collection of six new five-minute plays commissioned for production in Theatre for One’s mobile 4-by-8-foot theater, was a major success, garnering national and local media coverage.
I’m Not the Stranger You Think I Am was reviewed in The New York Times by chief theatre critic Ben Brantley, who said it reminded him “that theater is nearly always about creating an intense intimacy, or the illusion of it.” It was also reviewed in The New Yorker, New York Theatre, and in an Associated Press feature, which was syndicated to several other national and international news outlets.
It was also featured in NY1, and even Modern Family’s Ty Burrell loved Theatre For One. You can see his reaction to the show in this great WPIX segment.
Sharon Jones Rocks Lowdown Hudson Blues
Jul. 18, 2014
The New Yorker previewed this week’s Lowdown Hudson Blues Festival at Brookfield Place Plaza with the full-page opener in the Goings on About Town section.
Other coverage highlights included Rolling Stone, The Wall Street Journal, Time Out New York, The New York Observer, NY1, BrooklynVegan, Flavorpill, New York Post, and amNY.
Global Beat Fest in New York Times
Jun. 18, 2014
Today’s New York Times features a wonderful review of DakhaBrakha and Poor Rich Boy at the closing night of the first-ever Global Beat Festival at Brookfield Place Winter Garden.
Other coverage of the festival included two segments on WNYC’s Soundcheck Gig Alert, a Perfect Weekend pick in Time Out New York, and a preview on NY1.
Canstruction Charms NYC
Nov. 07, 2013
Canstruction, the world’s coolest art competition and food drive, once again transformed Brookfield Place into pop art wonderland with over 25 sculptures created from 100,000 cans of food.
PKPR secured coverage far and wide—from national outlets like ABC News, USA Today, Elle Decor, House Beautiful, and Mediabistro Unbeige to NYC media like Time Out New York, New York Post, Gothamist, am New York, CW11 Morning News, and Curbed.
Lowdown rises with B.B. King, Los Lobos
Jul. 23, 2013
The third annual Lowdown Hudson Blues Festival at Brookfield Place featured two days of free music with the legendary B.B. King, Los Lobos, Los Lonely Boys, Alejandro Escovedo and The James Hunter Six.
Pre-festival media coverage in outlets like the New York Times, PIX Morning News, and DNAinfo helped bring an audience of 20,000 people to lower Manhattan.
The Lowdown Hudson Blues Festival has now been established as one of New York City’s premiere music festivals as Time Out New York declared that it’s “hard to argue with a sweet free fest like this one.”
AM New York crowed “if you’re feeling blue, this music festival is sure to lift your spirits.”
And the New York Daily News raved that the free festival would produce “the greatest night of Latino roots rock New York will see this year.”
Major feature on Arts Brookfield in NY Times
Oct. 01, 2012
Wow! PKPR secured a front page Arts section feature on our longtime client Arts Brookfield. In an in-depth piece by culture reporter Allan Kozinn, the Times explores how Brookfield Properties, under the leadership of Artistic Director Debra Simon, “has emerged as a surprisingly significant player in the arts” in New York City and nationwide.
Lowdown Hudson Blues Festival hits NYC, Letterman
Jul. 17, 2012
Arts Brookfield’s second annual Lowdown Hudson Blues Festival, with headliners Buddy Guy and Neko Case, brought an estimated 20,000 people to the World Financial Center Plaza on July 11th and 12th.
To position the Lowdown Hudson Blues Festival as a major national festival, PKPR booked Buddy Guy on the Late Show with David Letterman to sit in as a special guest with Paul Shaffer and the CBS Orchestra.
PKPR built up anticipation for the festival with coverage in Time Out New York (#1 critics pick), New York Times, New York Daily News, New York Post, AM New York, Newsday, New Yorker, New York Magazine, Pitchfork, Flavorpill, Brooklyn Vegan, The L Magazine, and Bust Magazine.
Post coverage of the festival included two NY1 segments, one of which featured Buddy Guy interviewed by George Whipple, as well as Rolling Stone, a Village Voice review, a Time Out New York slideshow, and two days of photo sets on Brooklyn Vegan.
Canstruction NYC Makes National Headlines
Nov. 22, 2011
For the second year in a row, PKPR handled publicity for Canstruction, the annual design competition which helps feed hungry New Yorkers during the Thanksgiving season.
26 of New York City’s leading architecture firms designed larger-than-life sculptures out of more than 100,000 unopened cans of food, all of which were then donated to City Harvest. Highlights of this year’s competition included sculptures of Angry Birds, a Converse sneaker, and Alexander McQueen’s high heels made famous by Lady Gaga.
Highlights of this year’s coverage included features in the Wall Street Journal and MTV.com, a segment on WNYC, a Best Bets pick in New York Magazine, a shout out from Perez Hilton, and photo galleries in Time Out New York and Gothamist
Other national coverage ranged from ELLE Decor, WWD, and This Old House’s Bob Vila to Scholastic, TreeHugger, and Curbed.
The Rover “roves” the World Financial Center
Mar. 12, 2011
The sound of Carnival carousing and swordfights filled the World Financial Center this March when it presented a production of The Rover, a 17th Century Restoration comedy by Aphra Behn, the first professional female playwright in the English language.
From March 2nd through March 20th, Aphra Behn’s biting comedy of manners transformed the bustling business hub into 17th Century Naples at the height of Carnival, including live music and songs performed by the actors themselves. The New York Classical Theatre production employed the company’s signature panoramic staging style, taking audience members up and down staircases and around mezzanines throughout the 3.5-acre venue. Helmed by director Karin Coonrod, the bawdy, full-blooded romp unfolded not just in front of the audience but all around it.
See reviews of The Rover in The New York Times, The Village Voice, Back Stage, Downtown Express, NY Theatre, and Off Off Online.
New York Times: A Musical About Robert Moses?
Jan. 13, 2011
Highlights from a forthcoming full-length musical exploring the controversial life and legacy of urban planner Robert Moses will have its world premiere at the World Financial Center Winter Garden on Saturday, January 15th.
In an in depth preview on the front page of the Arts section of the New York Times today, reporter Robin Pogrebrin went behind-the-scenes with Moses biographer Robert Caro to meet the musical’s composer, Gary S. Fagin, and celebrated actor and singer Rinde Eckert, who will portray the city’s “Master Builder.”
Canstruction Dazzles NYC
Nov. 29, 2010
Over 100,000 full cans of food were transformed into epic eye candy when they were assembled into fanciful, mind-boggling sculptures at the World Financial Center Winter Garden this month.
The fantastical installations, created by 25 teams of architects and engineers, were part of Canstruction, an exhibit and design competition that drops jaws in more ways than one. In addition to being a visual smorgasbord for New Yorkers to feast their eyes on, Canstruction is an inspired campaign aimed at raising hunger awareness during the Thanksgiving season. At the closing of the exhibit, the pop art was dismantled and donated to City Harvest for distribution to programs that feed hungry New Yorkers.
Coverage of the exhibition included CNN, New York Times, New York Post, WABC, Metro, Time Out New York, Flavorpill, NBC New York, and Gothamist.
Shepard Fairey Mural at World Financial Center
Oct. 11, 2010
Celebrated artist Shepard Fairey (of the Obama “Hope” poster fame) guided more than 100 young New Yorkers in creating a powerful 40-foot long mural that made its public debut at the World Financial Center this month. The mural, A Positive Thought Cannot Be Denied, expresses the kids’ views on teen violence, the environment, education and other issues relating to social justice.
Coverage included WNET Sunday Arts (video below), Time Out New York, Village Voice, Time Out New York Kids, Gothamist, DNAinfo.com, Newsday, Curated, and The Dirt Floor.
Chopin Festival Garners Worldwide Coverage
Mar. 11, 2010
To celebrate Frederic Chopin’s 200th birthday on March 1st, Arts World Financial Center mounted one of the most ambitious tributes in the world, with more than 200 hours of music performed by nearly 200 pianists.
PKPR garnered international coverage for the week-long event, starting with a Reuters article that was syndicated from Vancouver to Sydney. The New York Post and Time Out New York named it a top pick of the week, while other highlights included New York Times, New Yorker, Flavorpill, and WNET.
Hamlet in the New York Times
Mar. 05, 2010
As featured in today’s New York Times, the bustling World Financial Center will be transformed into Elsinore Castle next month when it hosts a free production of Hamlet that will inhabit the sprawling venue as its set.
From April 1-18, New York Classical Theatre will perform William Shakespeare’s tragedy in their signature panoramic staging style, with the audience being drawn into Hamlet’s world as they follow the actors down staircases and around mezzanines throughout the entire World Financial Center complex.
mydeskfriend
mydeskfriend is a small robot companion that lives on your desk, next to your computer. With its own life and personality, it connects to your Facebook profile to keep you in touch with your community. mydeskfriend was developed by Arimaz, a technology company based in Switzerland. PKPR is managing the November 2009 launch of mydeskfriend in the United States.
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Aubrey Daniels
Bestselling author Aubrey Daniels is one of the world’s leading experts on human behavior in the workplace. PKPR has managed publicity for his two most recent books - Measure of a Leader (2005) and Oops!. (2009).
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Aubrey Daniels in The Business Insider
Feb. 08, 2012
PKPR worked with author Aubrey Daniels to develop and place this fun and useful essay in The Business Insider on what managers can learn from the new boss on The Office.
To gift or not to gift?
Nov. 23, 2009
For National Boss Day on October 16th, author Aubrey Daniels wrote a great blog post on the pros and cons of giving your boss a gift.
PKPR has leveraged the blog post to secure coverage in a wide mix of media outlets including USA Today (“Should workers suck up to the boss or not?”), MSNBC, Philadelphia Inquirer, and Today’s Workplace.
TV’s Worst Bosses
Sep. 10, 2009
To continue to build momentum around OOPS! 13 Management Practices that Waste Time and Money (and what to do instead), PKPR worked with author Aubrey Daniels to develop an original blog post on how some of TV’s top bosses (e.g. 30 Rock’s Liz Lemon and Entourage’s Ari Gold) stack up against the management pitfalls highlighted in Oops! .
Using the blog post, PKPR outreached to wide mix of blogs and media outlets, encouraging them to interview Aubrey or share his blog post with their followers and readers. Coverage ranged from an in-depth story in The Globe and Mail to AOL’s WalletPop to Occupational Health & Safety Online.
Book Challenges Business to Reform
Aug. 14, 2009
With executives under fire for driving their companies into the ground—and with them the global economy—a new book by bestselling author Aubrey Daniels, Oops!, say it’s time for a paradigm shift that focuses on the root of business mismanagement: individual behavior.
PKPR has secured extensive coverage for Oops!—from an in depth feature and slide show in BusinessWeek to an interview on ABC News Now, as well as Financial Post, The Cranky Middle Manager, Training Magazine, and EHS Today.
Praise for New Leadership Book
May. 29, 2006
PKPR managed the national publicity campaign for Measure of a Leader by workplace behavior expert Aubrey Daniels. Coverage included: Workforce Management, TomPeters.com, Montreal Gazette, Washington Post, Harvard Management Update, Management Issues, and Training + Development Magazine
The Hudson River Pilings Project
Sculptor Joan Benefiel will install 10-foot tall translucent orange figures atop the abandoned Hudson River pier pilings in 2009.
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Hudson River Pilings Project Announced
Jun. 15, 2009
PKPR helped organize a launch party to announce the Hudson River Piling Project, a temporary art installation by sculptor Joan Benefiel. To help spread the word on how the public can support this exciting public art event, PKPR placed preview stories in such NYC culture outlets as Flavorwire, Cool Hunting, and Brooklyn Modern. Visit Joan’s site to learn how you can be a part of this historic project..
Theodore Bikel: The First 85 Years
Broadway and folk music legend Theodore Bikel, a lifelong social justice advocate, will celebrate a rich career devoted to art and activism with a star-studded 85th birthday benefit concert at Carnegie Hall. All proceeds will go to the Juvenile Law Center,
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Bikel Concert Benefits Juvenile Law Center
Jun. 17, 2009
PKPR managed publicity and marketing for Theodore Bikel: The First 85 Years, a benefit concert for the Juvenile Law Center. To drive ticket sales, PKPR implemented a multi-tiered campaign that included media outreach, marketing campaigns with The Forward, WFUV, WNYC, and WFDU, and grassroots outreach to Jewish cultural organizations. More than 1200 people attended the all-star concert, which also featured Arlo Guthrie, The Klezmatics, and Tom Paxton.
Media coverage included The Forward, Jewish Week, Village Voice, The New York Times, Time Out New York, am New York, Playbill, Broadway World, Sing Out! Magazine, Theatermania, Klezmer Shack, Short and Sweet NYC,
Elmore Magazine, and WFDU-FM’s Sunday Simcha and Traditions.
The 48 Hour Film Project
The 48 Hour Film Project is a wild and sleepless weekend in which teams of filmmakers write, shoot, edit and score a short film in just 48 hours.
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48 Hour Film Project in New York Times
Jun. 09, 2010
Check out the amazing story on The 48 Hour Film Project competition in New York City in today’s New York Times - lead story across front page of Arts Section with several photos on the inside.
This year’s tour kicked off in late April and coverage so far has included in depth features and interviews on WBUR (NPR in Boston), WAMU-FM (NPR in Washington, D.C.) and NBC New York Nightly News
River To River Festival
PKPR is managing publicity for the 2009 River to River Festival, New York’s largest free summer arts Festival with music, dance and cultural events from June through mid-August.
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River To River Festival Splashed Across NY Times
Jul. 16, 2011
Wow. That’s all we can say.
The entire top half of today’s New York Times arts section features a beautiful photo of STREB performing at the River To River Festival.
River To River Festival Unveils Lineup
Jun. 01, 2011
Putting a spotlight on artists whose work is synonymous with New York City, The 10th Annual River To River® Festival unveiled a stellar line-up of completely free events that includes Patti Smith, Rufus Wainwright, Laurie Anderson, STREB, Sean Lennon and a tribute to The Bottom Line.
As it marks its tenth season, the festival is evolving from a summer-long series of diverse events to a more ambitious, densely packed, month-long festival showcasing a curated roster of New York icons as well as world-class artists. Reflecting this vision, this summer will see the debut of several new flagship events including: Extraordinary Moves, a weeklong celebration of dance at the World Financial Center; a production of Shakespeare’s Henry V performed in Battery Park and on Governor’s Island; and Come Out and Play, a series of participatory games that will activate the streets of Lower Manhattan.
Preview coverage of the festival included the New York Times, Rolling Stone, New York Post, PaperMag, WNYC, Pitchfork, Paste Magazine, Village Voice, BrooklynVegan, New York Press, and NBC New York.
Dancer Captures New York’s Imagination
Aug. 06, 2010
Acclaimed Canadian choreographer Paul-André Fortier has captured New Yorkers’ imaginations with Solo 30 X 30, in which he is performing the same 30-minute dance for 30 consecutive days, rain or shine, at One New York Plaza.
Part of The River To River Festival, the extraordinary event has become one of the most buzzed-about public art events of the summer, attracting coverage in almost every major NYC outlet, including reviews in the New York Times and Metro, profiles in Time Out New York, New York Press, This Week in New York, Capitol File, and DNA Info, and segments on WABC-TV, WNYC, NY1, and NBC New York.
River To River Festival Remembers Merce
Aug. 05, 2010
Just a few days after the death of their company’s namesake choreographer, dancers from the Merce Cunningham Dance Company gave a memorable performance as part of the 2009 River to River Festival, which drew more than 3,000 people to Battery Park City in Manhattan. Now, almost a year later, five choreographers paid their respects to Cunningham in a program titled “We Give Ourselves Away at Every Moment: An EVENT for Merce,” on July 26th. Lucinda Childs, Bill T. Jones, Susan Marshall, Jon Kinzel and Faye Driscoll presented new dances created for the occasion, as well as existing works inspired by Cunningham’s Events pieces.
Reviews of the performance included The New York Times (and slide show), Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and WNET Sunday Arts.
A Tribute to Merce Cunningham
Aug. 08, 2009
The highlight of the 2009 River To River Festival was undoubtedly the tribute to legendary choreographer Merce Cunningham. Thousands turned out on a beautiful New York summer afternoon to celebrate Cunningham who worked and lived in New York City for more than 70 years. Don’t miss the amazing reviews and photos in New York Times, ArtForum, New York Post, ArtForum, Time Out, Star Ledger, WNET, NY Press, and more.
The Big Draw Draws Big Coverage
Jul. 20, 2009
Part of The River To River Festival, The Big Draw is a daylong event that turned Lower Manhattan into a giant canvas through a series of hands-on drawing activities led by some of New York’s most innovative artists.
More than 6,000 people attended the event thanks to coverage in numerous outlets including a segment on WNYC and feature on WNYC.org, live remotes on NY1, and previews in outlets ranging from PIX Morning News and Time Out New York to MommyPoppins.com and the New York Post.
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Happy Fourth of July
Jul. 07, 2009
More than 10,000 people and 60 media outlets and music blogs turned out to cover the River To River Festival’s flagship July 4th concert with Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band and Jenny Lewis. Coverage included: New Yorker, Billboard, Time Out New York, New York Press, Venus Zine, FlavorWire, New York Daily News, BrooklynVegan, and Rockscope
River To River Festival Kicks Off Summer in NYC
May. 31, 2009
PKPR is proud to be handling publicity for River To River Festival, New York’s largest free summer arts festival.
The 2009 Festival line-up, which the New York Times hailed as “one of the City’s most compelling summer series,” ranges from big names like Richie Havens, New York City Opera, and Merce Cunningham Dance Company to hotly tipped artists like Conor Oberst, Jenny Lewis, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, and Anthony Gonzelez of M83.
Preview coverage of this year’s festival has included the New York Times, New York Post (and this one, too), New York Daily News, New York Magazine, Miami Herald, NME, and Philadelphia Inquirer.
Check out WCBS-AM’s piece on River To River Festival with the Bang on a Can Marathon:
The Transporters
Debuting on DVD in North America on January 12th, 2009, The Transporters is a groundbreaking cartoon series designed to help children with autism recognize and understand emotions. It is the brainchild of Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, a leading world authority on autism and produced in association with his research team at the Autism Research Center at Cambridge University in England. Research has found that after watching the series for just 15 minutes a day for four weeks, most children with autism caught up with other children in their ability to recognize emotions.
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PKPR managed publicity for iPublish.com, one of the first major eBook divisions launched by a major book publisher, from 2000 to 2001
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Bloomberg Media
PKPR represented Bloomberg Media, including Bloomberg.com, Bloomberg Markets, Bloomberg Wealth Manager, Bloomberg Personal Finance, Bloomberg Television and Radio, from 1997 to 2005.
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HazelMail in DailyCandy
Feb. 06, 2010
PKPR placed an awesome feature on HazelMail in today’s DailyCandy. Other recent coverage includes a review in Netted and a mention on BoingBoing, the world’s third most popular blog, which led to HazelMail’s largest day of app downloads yet. Oh yeah, we also loved that ABC News named it a top Valentine’s Day gift, The Daily Telegraph named it one of the Best Travel Websites and the New York Times Style Magazine highlighted HazelMail in a round-up of iPhone apps.
Hazelmail Launches iPhone App
Jul. 16, 2009
PKPR developed and implemented a comprehensive media and marketing strategy for the launch of HazelMail’s iPhone app, which instantly turns photos taken on an iPhone into personalized postcards—and then prints, stamps, and mails them for you with just the touch of a keystroke.
The campaign kicked off with outreach to influential app reviewers, including the New York Times’ Phone Smart column (very last item) and CNET, which dubbed it one of the “five must—have iPhone apps for your next trip.” Other key reviewers included Mobile Marketer, GigaOM, MacWorld, dealmac via Twitter, and iPhone Life Magazine.
As positive buzz began to spread, we expanded our outreach to mainstream travel media, securing Tweets by USA Today reporter Laura Bly and coverage in outlets like Budget Travel, NationalGeographic.com, am New York, and Canoe.ca.
And, with summer vacation season kicking into high-gear, PKPR coordinated contests and promotions with family-friendly outlets and blogs including Woman’s Day Magazine, Soap Opera Weekly, Trusty Pony, Nerd’s Eye View, and iSmash Photo.
HazelMail Makes Sending Postcards Fun Again
Dec. 09, 2008
PKPR recently helped launched HazelMail, a new online service that allows users to instantly turn their photos into personalized postcards, and prints and mails them anywhere in the world.
To build buzz for HazelMail, PKPR first introduced the service to influential tech bloggers, securing favorable reviews from TechCrunch, AppScout, and Killer Startups.
Building on that momentum, PKPR expanded outreach to mainstream travel and consumer media, generating coverage in outlets ranging from Associated Press, USA Today, and Chicago Tribune to Budget Travel Magazine, National Geographic, Spot Cool Stuff, and Blackbook Magazine.
Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
Celebrating its tenth anniversary, Housing Works Bookstore Cafe has established itself as a New York City cultural institution thanks to its stellar mix of offbeat literary events, live music performances, and original series like the New York City Spelling Bee and Cringe Night. The intimate setting has hosted a dizzying array of music and literary stars - from John Mellencamp and Norah Jones to Jonathan Lethem and Francine Prose.
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Is Housing Works the Most Exciting Venue in Town?
Jun. 24, 2009
Housing Works Bookstore Cafe gets the full-page treatment in this week’s NY Press. We love the headline: “Quiche, Blogs & Rock ‘N’ Roll: Is a small Soho bookstore the most exciting new venue in town?”
Bjork Concert Raises $40,000 For Housing Works
May. 09, 2009
Last night, 300 lucky guests crowded into Housing Works Bookstore for a special installment of the bookstore’s LIVE FROM HOME concert series: A collaboration between musical legend Björk and the up-and-coming Brooklyn band The Dirty Projectors. The intimate show raised $40,000 for for Housing Works Inc., which provides direct services for homeless New Yorkers with HIV and AIDS.
Jon Pareles wrote in The New York Times “Bjork sings like a force of nature” and Time Out New York called it “the event of the year so far.” For a great overview of what the bookstore is all about, check out this feature in the New York Post.
Housing Works Bookstore Cafe Taps PKPR
Feb. 09, 2009
Housing Works Bookstore Cafe has tapped PKPR to help raise its profile as a downtown cultural hotspot.
In the coming months, PKPR will be focusing on highlighting the bookstore’s eclectic mix of events that celebrate the written word and cleverly bridge the worlds of music and literature. Case in point: the photo above is of author Augusten Burroughs and singer Tegan Quinn appearing together at the bookstore last year. PKPR will also be promoting special series and events like the New York City Spelling Bee, the Live from Home Series, and the Moth StorySlam, as well as showcasing its unique business model: the bookstore is run almost entirely by volunteers and 100% of its profits go to Housing Works, Inc., the nation’s largest minority-controlled AIDS service provider. Recent coverage has included the New York Times, New York Post, PAPER, Village Voice, and Shecky’s.
The Budget Fashionista
For over 5 years, founder Kathryn Finney has preached the gospel of looking fabulous for less to the over 2 million of readers of her blog and bestselling book HOW TO BE A BUDGET FASHIONISTA: The Ultimate Guide to Looking Fabulous for Less (Random House). Her frank advice and Midwestern charm have earned her regular appearances on TODAY, Good Morning America, E!, CNN. Kathryn was the first fashion blogger to be credentialed by the organizers of fashion week and the first fashion blogger to receive a book deal from a major publisher.
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Tropfest New York
Tropfest is the world’s largest short film festival. More than 10,000 people are expected to attend Tropfest New York on September 26, 2008 in downtown Manhattan.
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World’s Largest Short Film Fest Draws Crowds, Stars
Sep. 27, 2008
Tropfest NY, the world’s largest short film festival, took place last night on the Battery Park City Esplanade in New York City, Despite the rainy weather and competition from the opening night of the New York Film Festival (and the first presidential debate!), crowds and VIP judges like Julianne Moore, Billy Crudup, and Radha Mitchell turned out to experience eight original short films created by up-and-coming filmmakers.
For its first year operating independently of the Tribeca Film Festival, Tropfest tapped PKPR to build buzz and crowds for the free outdoor event. Preview coverage included People, Time Out New York, OK!, New York Post Page Six, New York Post Agenda, New York Daily News, New York Times Urban Eye, New York Observer, Village Voice, am New York, Downtown Express, Metro, Daily Candy, Flavorpill, and an exclusive preview of one of the night’s short films in New York Magazine’s Vulture Blog.
As the New York Times and USA Today’s Pop Candy blog noted, the winning film, No Man is an Island, was created entirely on a cell-phone for just $57. Not bad, since the director takes home a $20,000 prize. Check out this amazing short below.
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Mar. 09, 2012
PKPR’s successful campaign for Slavery Footprint gets high marks from PR Week.
Our New Look
Jun. 18, 2008
Welcome to the new home of PKPR.
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I Wish To Say by Sheryl Oring
Sheryl Oring is an artist and writer whose work explores issues related to the First Amendment as well as language and memory.
Oring initiated the I Wish to Say project in 2004 as a commissioned artwork for the First Amendment Project (http://www.thefirstamendment.org/) in Oakland, Calif. Peter Jennings named her Person of the Week on ABC’s World News Tonight for her work on the project during the Republican National Convention in New York in 2004.
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Sheryl Oring on NPR
May. 27, 2008
Crisscrossing the country just like Obama, Clinton, and McCain, artist Sheryl Oring is gathering messages for the next president the old-fashioned way: people sit down at her mobile desk, dictate their missives, and she manually types them using a vintage typewriter. The letters will be presented to 44th president of the United States in January 2009.
As Sheryl tours the country, PKPR is raising awareness of the project by securing local, national, and international coverage - from the Los Angeles Times to the New York Daily News to Yahoo! Espana and Huffington Post.
But we were most excited about NPR’s coverage.
PKPR worked closely with NPR’s Bryant Park Project to develop an entire program around Sheryl’s New York City appearance that included NPR listeners submitting their own messages to the next president. Sheryl typed several of them and NPR posted them online, as well as a wonderful video segment that really captures what this special project is all about.
Dayton Literary Peace Prize
The Dayton Literary Peace Prize recognizes writers whose work demonstrates the power of literature to foster peace, social justice, and global understanding. Past recipients include Elie Wiesel and Studs Terkel. Launched in 2006,.it is an offshoot of the Dayton Peace Prize commemorating the 1995 peace accords ending the war in Bosnia, and is the only international literary peace prize awarded in the United States.
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Momaday wins 2019 Dayton Literary Peace Prize
Aug. 01, 2019
Writer N. Scott Momaday, who is widely credited with spearheading the breakthrough of Native American literature into the mainstream, will receive the Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award, organizers of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize announced this week. A Kiowa Indian, Momaday is the author of Pulitzer Prize-winning novel House Made of Dawn (1968) and The Way to Rainy Mountain (1969).
Coverage highlights include USA Today, PBS NewsHour, Houston Chronicle, Native News, BookWeb, Poets and Writers, and Lit Hub.
John Irving honored by Dayton Literary Peace Prize
Jul. 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.
Colm Toibin wins Dayton Literary Peace Prize
Jul. 21, 2017
Irish novelist, journalist, and essayist Colm Tóibín, whose fiction and nonfiction captures in heartbreaking detail the impact of exile and political conflict on individual lives, will receive the 2017 Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award, organizers of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize announced this week. Coverage included the Associated Press, The Times of London, the Irish Independent, and The Irish Times.
The Sympathizer, Nagasaki win Literary Peace Prize
Oct. 21, 2016
Two books focused on the aftermath of 20th century wars are winners of the 2016 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. The nonfiction winner is “Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War,” Susan Southard’s examination of the enduring impact of the U.S. use of the atomic bomb on the Japanese city in World War II. Viet Thanh Nguyen won for fiction with “The Sympathizer,” featuring a double agent in the Vietnam War aftermath.
Coverage included Associated Press, The Guardian, Bustle, Publishers Weekly, Adweek Galley Cat, Book Riot, American Libraries Magazine, and BookWeb.
Robinson wins Dayton Literary Peace Prize
Aug. 26, 2016
Writer Marilynne Robinson (Gilead, Housekeeping, Home), whose novels and essays offer moving, graceful, and thoughtful meditations on modern life, spirituality, science, and politics, will receive the 2016Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award, organizers of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize announced this week.
In 2012, President Barack Obama, a self-avowed fan of her work, awarded Robinson the National Humanities Medal. They made headlines again in November 2015 when President Obama interviewed Robinson for The New York Review of Books. Their wide-ranging conversation, which touched on religion, fear-mongering, and the convergence of faith and democracy, went viral.
PKPR placed stories in outlets including AP, The Guardian, MSN, Bookforum, and Adweek
Steinem receives 2015 Dayton Literary Peace Prize
Nov. 16, 2015
Gloria Steinem, the iconic author whose writing and activism has helped shape modern feminism, receive the 2015 Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award at the 2015 Dayton Literary Peace Prize Gala. Coverage ranged from the AP and US News & World Report to Bustle and Adweek’s GalleyCat.
Wendell Berry wins Dayton Literary Peace Prize
Aug. 15, 2013
In recognition of a lifetime of letters exploring how humans can live more harmoniously with both the land and each other, Wendell Berry, the novelist, essayist, poet, farmer, and activist, will receive the 2013 Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award at a November gala in Dayton, Ohio.
For the announcement, PKPR arranged an exclusive interview for Berry with the AP. Other coverage highlights included The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, Salon, USA Today, Montreal Gazette, Publishers Weekly, GalleyCat, Mother Nature News, Library Journal, and Book Patrol.
The photo above is from 2011 when Berry received a National Humanities Medal from President Barack Obama.
Tim O’Brien Wins Dayton Literary Peace Prize
Nov. 19, 2012
Last week in Dayton, Ohio, Vietnam veteran and acclaimed author Tim O’Brien fought back tears when he discussed how much winning the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for lifetime achievement meant to him.
“For me to get an award at the end of my career with the word peace in it—I’ve been called a war writer my whole career, and I think of myself as a peace writer. I’ve always thought of myself as a peace writer, and I’m sure that my colleagues up here are all in agreement about that – that we display the ugliness and obscenities of war as a way of contrast against that alternative, that shy, unbragging word peace.”
PKPR secured extensive coverage of this year’s awards including the Associated Press, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Los Angeles Times, The Huffington Post, Minnesota Public Radio, Austin American Statesman, and Mediabistro.
Lee, Rideau Win 2011 Dayton Literary Peace Prize
Sep. 28, 2011
The Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation this week announced that The Surrendered by Chang-Rae Lee and In The Place Of Justice: A Story of Punishment and Deliverance by Wilbert Rideau are the winners of the 2011 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for fiction and nonfiction, respectively. Organizers also announced this year’s runners-up: Beneath the Lion’s Gaze by Maaza Mengiste and The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson.
PKPR announced the winners in an exclusive in The New York Times and placed an AP story which was published in dozens of outlets including ABCNews.com, Yahoo! News, and Washington Post
Other coverage highlights included USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Mediabistro, and Poets & Writers.
Kingsolver Wins First Richard Holbrooke Literary Prize
Aug. 05, 2011
Author Barbara Kingsolver will receive the first-ever Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award from the Dayton Literary Peace Prize at a gala ceremony in Dayton on November 13th.
The award, which was formerly known as the Lifetime Achievement Award, was renamed in honor of the late Richard C. Holbrooke, the celebrated U.S. diplomat who played an instrumental role in negotiating the historic 1995 Dayton Peace Accords, which ended the war in Bosnia.The award will be presented to Kingsolver by journalist Kati Marton, Holbrooke�s widow. Holbrooke had been serving as special advisor on Afghanistan and Pakistan under President Obama when he passed away in December 2010.
For the announcement, PKPR placed an exclusive with the Associated Press, including both a news story and Q&A with Kingsolver, which were published by more than 250 outlets around the world. Other coverage included USA Today, Los Angeles Times, CBC, MediaBistro, and Poets & Writers.
Eggers, James win Dayton Literary Peace Prize
Nov. 15, 2010
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers and The Book Of Night Women by Marlon James were named winners of the 2010 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for nonfiction and fiction, respectively.
“It can be lonely, believing that books can still change how we think,” said James. The Dayton Literary Peace Prize reminds us that the book is still our most eloquent tool to speak truth to power, and to bear witness to the good and not so good in human nature.
Coverage of this year’s winners ranged from Huffington Post and UTNE Reader to Minnesota Public Radio and MediaBistro.
Dayton Literary Peace Prize in NY Times, Reuters
Aug. 20, 2010
Geraldine Brooks, a historical novelist who taps into her own experiences as a wartime reporter to vividly illustrate the horrors of war, will receive the 2010 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Lifetime Achievement. Brooks spent many years covering crises in the Middle East, Africa, and the Balkans for the Wall Street Journal before going on to write acclaimed novels, including the 2006 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel March. She will accept the award at a ceremony in Dayton, Ohio on November 7th.
PKPR secured coverage for the announcement in the New York Times, Reuters, Los Angeles Times, Huffington Post, Publishers Weekly, Mediabistro, Poets & Writers, and more.
Shortlist for Dayton Literary Peace Prize Announced
Aug. 23, 2009
In recognition of their work chronicling human rights in Asia, Africa, and the developing world, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Committee today announced that authors and journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn will receive the 2009 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Lifetime Achievement. The committee also announced the shortlist for this year’s prizes in fiction and nonfiction. Coverage included New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Mediabistro, Washington Post books review editor Ron Charles, and The New Yorker’s Book Bench blog.
Dayton Literary Peace Prize Salutes Authors
Sep. 24, 2008
The 2008 Dayton Literary Peace Prize will be presented in Dayton, Ohio this Sunday, September 28th.
Winners include Junot Diaz for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and Edwidge Danticat for Brother, I’m Dying. PKPR has been instrumental in raising the awards’ national profile including stories in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, National Post, St. Paul Pioneer Press, San Jose Mercury News, Publisher’s Weekly, and Library Journal.
Taylor Branch to Receive Literary Peace Prize
May. 07, 2008
This week, PKPR helped announce that the premier chronicler of America�s civil rights era will receive a special Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Lifetime Achievement.
Taylor Branch, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning trilogy America in the King Years is widely considered the definitive history of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights movement, will accept the award at a ceremony in Dayton, Ohio on September 28, 2008. Coverage ranged from the Baltimore Sun to Publisher’s Weekly to Mediabistro’s Galley Cat blog.