PKPR News
Panthera in Barron’s, Inside Philanthropy
Jun. 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,
2021 season of ByKids premieres on PBS
May. 14, 2021
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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.
Women conservationists spotlighted in World Atlas
May. 03, 2021
World Atlas interviewed Razan Al Mubarak and four women who have received grants from the Mohamed Bin Zayed Conservation Fund for a special series of articles on the critical role that women play in biodiversity conservation.
Razan Al Mubarak op-ed in World Economic Forum
Apr. 28, 2021
In an op-ed published today in the World Economic Forum’s Agenda, Razan Al Mubarak discusses why it is essential that women are fully engaged and equally represented in biodiversity conservation — at the grassroots level and in the leadership of governments and NGOs.
Panthera on NPR’s Science Friday
Apr. 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.
On Air Fest Returns for 2021
Apr. 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.
Object of Sound in Vanity Fair
Apr. 06, 2021
Sonos Radio’s Object of Sound with Hanif Abdurraqib continues to win raves. PKPR secured an awesome profile of Abdurraqib by Justine Goode of Vanity Fair, who said the podcast “features fascinating, insider conversations with musicians, but deliberately operates outside the churn of a press cycle, or the coldness of the algorithm.” Other recent interviews include OkayPlayer, HyperAllergic, and InsideHook.
Moleskine Foundation in Reuters, Inside Philanthropy, Global Citizen
Apr. 05, 2021
Wikipedia is the 10th-most-visited website on earth, but when it comes to Africa, there is a scarcity of information for an entire continent of one billion people. As Wikipedia marks its 20th anniversary in 2021, an initiative launched by the Moleskine Foundation is supporting young people across Africa in creating content about Africa on Wikipedia, including the translation of more than 200 pieces of COVID-19 information into 17 African languages.
PKPR has secured coverage of the project in Reuters, David Byrne’s Reasons To Be Cheerful, Global Citizen, TechRadar, Christian Science Monitor, Inside Philanthropy, World Economic Forum, The Daily Mail, Courrier International, Good News Network, The New Activist, and Global Times.
Ground News launches Blindspotter
Mar. 25, 2021
Ground News this week launched Blindspotter, a bot that analyzes the interactions of any Twitter account to produce a profile of their media diet and the degree of their political news slant. Check out the coverage in Mashable, Financial Times, The Daily Wire, and Unherd.
DJDS co-founder profiled in Financial Times, NBC News
Mar. 07, 2021
Check out the latest profiles of Designing Justice + Designing Spaces co-founder Deanna Van Buren in NBC News (“How Oakland architect Deanna Van Buren’s passion for restorative justice manifests in her work”) and the Financial Times (“Meet the architect imagining a world without prisons”).
Sonos Radio launches Object of Sound podcast
Feb. 26, 2021
PKPR is handling publicity for the launch of Object of Sound, a new music and culture podcast from Sonos Radio hosted by poet and cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib. Combining the intimate storytelling of a podcast with the genre-jumping joy of freeform radio, Object of Sound offers multiple ways to discover new music in an age of algorithmic playlists.
The New York Times, The Guardian, and Stuff have all hailed it as one of the best new podcasts of 2021. PKPR has also secured interviews for Hanif in Flaunt, Forbes, and Under the Radar, while outlets like BoingBoing, The Fader, and BookForum have sung the praises of individual episodes.
Razan Al Mubarak profiled in Financial Times
Feb. 13, 2021
In an interview with the Financial Times, Razan Al Mubarak discusses why she believes the existential twin crises of climate change and biodiversity loss are the greatest challenges of our time.
Panthera in Smithsonian Magazine
Jan. 21, 2021
25 years after gray wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park, and just weeks after the Trump administration’s removal of the gray wolf from the Endangered Species Act, Smithsonian looks at a new study from Panthera providing the first evidence that gray wolves, not hunters, are the primary drivers of the decline in puma populations in Northwest Wyoming. While wolves have previously been shown to affect pumas’ prey selection and habitat use.
Moleskine enlists ambassadors for holidays
Dec. 24, 2020
PKPR implemented the first brand ambassador program in the US for Moleskine this holiday season. We secured four ambassadors who are all longtime fans of Moleskine - lettering artist Lisa Quine, filmmaker and writer Niki Ang, artist Luis Colan, and booklover Kathleen Crowley. Each ambassador created lovely posts that brought their passion for Moleskine to life and highlighted Moleskine.com as a perfect place to find gifts for creatives. The one-week campaign reached more than 350,000 people, generating over 27,000 likes. Check out the campaign at #MyMoleskineStory.
Moleskine in Cultured Magazine
Dec. 04, 2020
For Cultured Magazine’s Instagram, PKPR set up a video tour of the studio of artist Dinara Mirtapilova, one of the six artists who created notebooks for the new Moleskine Studio Collection.
Moleskine on COOL HUNTING Instagram Live
Nov. 18, 2020
COOL HUNTING founder Josh Rubin hosted an Instagram Live chat today with Olimpia Zagnoli, one of the six emerging artists who created notebooks for the new Moleskine Studio Collection.
Moleskine in Teen Vogue, Glamour, BoingBoing
Nov. 16, 2020
The new Moleskine Studio Collection features work from 6 emerging artists and illustrators who have transformed the iconic black Moleskine notebook into miniature works of breathtaking art. Each artist has imbued the legendary journal with their signature style including original artwork on the cover, inside pages, and a set of stickers.
In the feature 11 Teen Vogue Editors Reveal What They Want For The Holidays, editor Claire Dodson wrote: “Moleskine recently released their new Studio Collection in partnership with artists around the world. I’m obsessed with the ones from New Yorker illustrator Olimpia Zagnoli and Chinese artist Yukai Du in particular — fun upgrades to the classic black journal I own way too many of already.”
Other coverage highlights included BoingBoing, Conde Nast Traveler, Glamour, and The Manual.
Chanel Miller wins Dayton Literary Peace Prize
Nov. 11, 2020
Chanel Miller is among the winners of a prestigious book award for her soul-bearing memoir, where she reclaims her identity after being known as an anonymous victim of a highly publicized sexual assault. The Dayton Literary Peace Price announced Miller’s “Know My Name” memoir as the winner of its nonfiction award. Alice Hoffman’s “The World That We Knew,” a novel that explores love and resistance amid the Holocaust, won the fiction award, the organization announced this week.
Coverage included Associated Press, LitHub, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Poets & Writers, and the Dayton Daily News.
Moleskine launches Instagram exhibit
Oct. 26, 2020
Is the term “the Global South” a shortcut for labeling one part of the planet inferior or less-developed? A way of ordering regions of the world in opposition to each other?
That’s the question more than 90 young artists and creative entrepreneurs from around the world set out to answer by hacking, decorating, and transforming Moleskine notebooks into sculptures as part of “Where is South?”, a virtual exhibit organized by the Moleskine Foundation.
Check out coverage of the exhibit in outlets from Global Voices to FairPlanet.
Author Cris Ramos Greene debuts her first book
Oct. 22, 2020
Embrace That Girl is the heartfelt and humorous story of first-time author Cris Ramos Greene’s search for meaning, love, and a fulfilling career. Greene’s writing about relationships, travel, and Miami culture have been published in Thought Catalog, The New Tropic, and BuzzFeed Community. Publishers Weekly’s Booklife selected it as an “Editor’s Choice”, calling it a “well-crafted post-college memoir [that]will appeal to young readers and those looking for insightful humor on the journey to self-acceptance,” and GenTwenty named it one of the best new books to read this fall.
Check out these great interviews with Cris about Embrace That Girl on the podcasts First Gen Burden and How to Talk to Mami and Papi about Everything.