United Nations launches #ClimateCounts campaign to combat climate disinformation ahead of COP30
As all eyes are soon to turn to Brazil for the Conference of the Parties (COP), the UN are launching a social media campaign to…
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Tracey Bridges joins Nikki Wright as Co-Chief Judge for the 2026 PRINZ Awards
PRINZ Announces Chief Judges for 2026 PRINZ Awards Auckland, New Zealand — 8th October 2025 — The Public Relations Institute of New Zealand (PRINZ) are…
Scholarship supports next generation of rangatahi Maaori communicators
The Public Relations Institute of New Zealand (PRINZ) Waikato committee has announced the recipients of the 2025 PRINZ Waikato Matariki Scholarship, celebrating the talent and…
Celebrating 50 years of Te Wiki o te Reo Māori
E rau rangatira mā, huri noa i tō tātou tōpūtanga o PRINZ, tēnā koutou katoa. Ka tukuna ngā mihi aroha, ngā maumahara anō hoki ki…
Glue, Grit and a PRINZ Gold
When ProCare’s Brand and Communications team was awarded Gold for In-House Team of the Year at the recent PRINZ Awards, it marked a moment of recognition for…
Popcorn, PR, and the Power of Pause: Lessons from Coldplaygate
Pop culture has served up some doozies lately, for those in the business of crisis communications. But while the popcorn emoji was used to full…
‘Be interesting’: The driving force behind New Zealand’s large agency of the year
Earlier in my career, former Newshub news boss Hal Crawford offered some sage advice when he told me that every journalist should have another journalist…
Pead: From Kitchen Table to Supreme Award
The story of Pead began around a kitchen table. In 2000, after building the PR arm at Bates Advertising, Deborah Pead saw a gap for…
50 years celebrated
Dileepa Fonseka has published a short article in BusinessDesk’s On The Money editorial covering Margalit Toledano’s retirement celebrations that we held last week. See here:…
Building democratic resilience with ethical PR – by Margalit Toledano
I recently gave my students of a first year “Introduction to PR” paper an assignment that required them to interview PR practitioners outside New Zealand…