December 03, 2021
As Biden’s Commission on Supreme Court structural reform prepares to present its final report on December 6th, Albany Law School professor Ray Brescia penned an op-ed for the Washington Post looking at how the cases on the docket this term — more so than the commission report — will shape the future of the court.
November 22, 2021
New Moleskine CEO Daniela Riccardi speaks to Forbes about her vision for the brand, including new collaborations with luxury and fashion brands like Missoni, Kaweco, and Pontoglio.
November 19, 2021
LitHub highlighted author Chanel Miller’s moving and powerful speech at this week’s Dayton Literary Peace Prize ceremony.
November 09, 2021
Bloomberg CityLab’s Zach Mortice talked to DJDS’s Deanna Van Buren about the challenges of transforming closed jails into spaces that benefit communities devastated by mass incarceration.
Deanna Van Buren tells Bloomberg: “When you have a system that at its root is structurally racist, your beautification of the infrastructure is not actually dealing with the real issues. As designers, we have to be critical of what systems we’re propping up and what we’re supporting, because architects have always just supported and propped up systems of power.”
[In the photo above: DJDS organized public meetings where community members came together to imagine a new future for the Atlanta City Detention Center.]
October 26, 2021
Albany Law School Dean Alicia Oullette, an expert on COVID-19 law, was interviewed by CNN Supreme Court reporter Ariane de Vogue on the likelihood of the Supreme Court taking on a case challenging the legality of vaccine mandates.
“I think it is very likely that the Supreme Court will take on a case challenging a state vaccine mandate that does not allow for a religious exemption, especially if the state allows for medical exemptions,” Ouellette told CNN.
September 24, 2021
In 2020, hundreds of people across Brooklyn participated in 32 town halls to debate and develop a new amendment as part of Brooklyn Public Library’s 28th Amendment Project.
For Constitution Day 2021 (September 17th), PKPR worked with BPL to give the initiative a national boost. Highlights included placing an op-ed by “framer” Susan N. Herman in the New York Daily News and organizing the presentation of the “Brooklyn Amendment” to the office of Representative Hakeem Jeffries, the Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus. Stay tuned for an op-ed by BPL’s László Jakab Orsós on how other libraries can replicate the project in the January 2022 issue of Library Journal.
September 20, 2021
Check out this awesome tour of the Experience the Times of Bill Cunningham exhibit with NBC New York Live’s Joelle Gargulio.
September 15, 2021
Associated Press TV previews the Experience the Times of Bill Cunningham exhibit.
August 27, 2021
New Yorkers will be transported into the vibrant world of the legendary street photographer and fashion historian Bill Cunningham at an immersive exhibition opening in The Seaport during New York Fashion Week. Coverage of the exhibition announcement included Women’s Wear Daily, Time Out New York, Forbes, Daily Front Row, Fashion Network, MR, Untapped Cities, 6sqft, and Broadway World.
July 23, 2021
YouTube’s controversial algorithm is recommending videos considered disturbing and hateful by users and which often violate the platform’s very own content policies, according to a crowdsourced investigation released today by Mozilla. The study also found that people in non-English speaking countries are far more likely to encounter videos they considered disturbing.
Coverage of the study included NBC News, NPR’s Marketplace, Politico, Business Insider, Techcrunch, The Verge, Mashable, Adweek, and Fortune.
July 04, 2021
The Guardian’s Liam Miller takes an in-depth look at a program supported by Panthera that is using sheepdogs to keep pumas from preying on sheep in Patagonia, offering a new model for protecting livestock and diffusing conflict with ranchers.
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June 11, 2021
In May 2019, IDEXX CEO Jonathan Ayers appeared on CNBC’s Mad Money, where host Jim Cramer called the veterinary diagnostics company “one of the hottest stocks on the market.” Just one month later, Ayers suffered a nearly fatal cycling accident that left him a quadriplegic,. Ayers is now embarking on his next chapter. In April, he pledged at least $20 million over the next 10 years to Panthera’s Global Alliance for Wild Cats, an ambitious initiative to protect the world’s most threatened wild cats.
PKPR secured coverage in a wide range of outlets including Barron’s, Inside Philanthropy, Chronicle of Philanthropy, Ability Magazine, Today’s Veterinary Business, Good News Network, and World Atlas,
May 14, 2021
Sixteen-year-old Faith Guilbault loves skydiving and has walked the runway at New York Fashion Week. She also has cerebral palsy. The Baltimore teen was one of four young filmmakers who directed documentaries about their lives for the new season of ByKids airing on public television stations nationwide.
PKPR secured coverage of the new season in a range of outlets including The Baltimore Sun,, The Forward, WYPR-FM (NPR Baltimore), Kaiser Health News, and US News & World Report.
April 16, 2021
An innovative audio monitoring initiative that records gunshots, barking dogs, and poacher conversations is helping authorities more effectively track and curtail jaguar poachers in Central American jungles. PKPR placed a segmhttps://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/soundscape-justice-jungle/ent on NPR’s Science Friday which features some unintended audio symphonies of birds, monkeys, and other wildlife that erupt into chorus when people are absent.
April 12, 2021
The Nod’s Brittany Luse & Eric Eddings (above), Fresh Air’s Terry Gross, mxmtoon, Open Mike Eagle, Adia Victoria, Code Switch’s Shereen Marisol Meraji and Gene Demby, Song Exploder’s Hrishikesh Hirway, Switched on Pop’s Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding are among the headliners of On Air Fest 2021. Previews of this year’s festival included Time Out New York, The Root, Thrillist, Inside Radio, Billboard, All Access, and Brooklyn Based.