PKPR News
Ground News launches Blindspotter
March 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
March 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
February 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
February 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.
Tiger Party
January 28, 2021
While Times Square may have been nearly empty on New Year’s Eve for the first time since 1907, an estimated one billion people worldwide watched the 2021 ball drop and countdown.
For the 11th year in a row, The Tiger Party was in charge of supervising the famed countdown clock, which was synchronized live on three of Times Square’s most iconic billboards and then transmitted worldwide. One of the highlights: The Tiger Party supported the first-ever Livestream interview via a billboard when President-elect Joe Biden and Jill Biden were interviewed live by Ryan Secrest on the Times Square American Eagle sign.
Check out the behind-the-scenes stories in Untapped Cities (”Meet the man behind the New Year’s Eve countdown clock”), AV Interactive, and Sound + Video Contractor
Panthera in Smithsonian Magazine
January 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
December 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
December 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
November 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
November 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
November 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
October 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
October 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.
Ground News in Voice of America
October 19, 2020
In this Voice of America segment on election misinformation, Ground News founder Harleen Sukh discusses their new Bias Checker browser extension, which shows who else is covering the same news story and compares how other sources from across the political spectrum are reporting on it.
Panthera on The Weather Channel
October 15, 2020
Mark Elbroch, the director of Panthera’s Puma Program, appeared on The Weather Channel tonight to discuss how how wildfires are impacting pumas and what someone should do if they encounter a puma.
Deanna Van Buren on WNYC
October 15, 2020
Deanna Van Buren of Designing Justice + Designing Spaces was a guest on WNYC-AM (NPR in NYC) today to discuss how architects are taking the lead in building alternatives to prisons. For more, check out Deanna’s interview with Forbes about the the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects’ decision to call on architects to halt designing projects that support the current criminal justice system.
Margaret Atwood to receive Dayton Literary Peace Prize
September 18, 2020
Margaret Atwood, the bestselling author whose critically acclaimed fiction, poetry, and nonfiction have offered prescient warnings about the political consequences of individual complacency, will receive the 2020 Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award, organizers of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize announced today. Coverage included Associated Press, The Guardian, LitHub, CBC, Kirkus Reviews, and USA Today.
Razan Al Mubarak op-ed in Sustainability Times
August 26, 2020
For more than a decade, scientists like Luis Ortiz-Catedral have been working to protect the Galápagos pink land iguana. The species faces a range of threats including feral cats and rats, which prey on eggs and young reptiles. Their scientists’ work, however, came to a halt in April when the COVID-19 lockdown in Ecuador went into effect.
In an op-ed published in Sustainability Times, Ms. Al Mubarak looks at how the pandemic has impacted the conservation sector and proposes a plan of action for ensuring a sustainable recovery.
Ray Brescia op-ed in The Washington Post
August 17, 2020
PKPR placed an op-ed in The Washington Post by author Ray Brescia looking at how the United States Postal Service has been a crucial pillar of American democracy from the abolition movement to the Reagan Revolution.
DJDS on Monocle Radio + Scratching the Surface
August 04, 2020
DJDS founder Deanna Van Buren how design can on Monocle Radio’s Monocle on Design and Scratching the Surface, named one of the best design podcasts by Architectural Digest.