We’re proud to announce that Duby McDowell, president and CEO of McDowell Communications Group, has been named the chair for the 2024 Go Red for Women Luncheon sponsored by the Connecticut chapter of the American Heart Association.

Our partner Dignity Grows is working hard to end period poverty in the United States.

Although public affairs campaigns are often won or lost based on a perceived narrative around an issue of public debate that doesn’t mean there is always perfect harmony between public relations strategy and lobbying strategy.

Recent news events glowingly highlight the contradictions that exist between legal strategy and communications strategy in matters playing out on the public stage.

In the 1990s, Bill Clinton and his media team made famous the idea of rapid response. 

Next Thursday, the Connecticut Business and Industry Association will release the results of its annual survey.

There has always been room on the American public stage for a maverick. There is always room in the world of journalism for someone willing to say the unexpected, or willing to say what the news media wants to hear.

It is commonly believed that the Watergate scandal of the early 1970s led to an increase in the number of young people pursuing careers in journalism.

There is on-going debate about whether social media platforms are the equivalent of a town square; where everyone has the right to stand on a soap box and say whatever they want, or whether the companies who own those platforms have some power as publishers with responsibility to police what is said on their platforms.

In this period between Wimbledon and the U.S. Open, professional tennis continues to grapple with a public relations nightmare of its own making.