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IPRA announces its new Board for 2025
in Press Release 1 day, 22 hours ago
Following recent elections IPRA is pleased to announce its new Board all set for 2025.
Message from the IPRA President: A moment to express gratitude November 2024
in Press Release 1 week ago
Dear friends and colleagues,
COP29: the UN climate conference in Baku is both important and in a difficult place
in Press Release 1 week, 1 day ago
The 29th UN climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan this week will focus on the financing by wealthy countries of climate action required in poorer ones. This support is key. The latest UN emissions gap report suggests we’re under way to a global warming of at least 2.6° by the end of this century. This news comes as it has become clear the planet has failed the 1.5° target of the 2015 Paris agreement.
Eeva-Liisa Vallin made an IPRA Member Emeritus
in Press Release 2 weeks, 6 days ago
The IPRA Board has voted to bestow the honour of Member Emeritus upon Eeva-Liisa Vallin. Eeva-Liisa has been a member of IPRA since 1991 and has unfailingly been a judge for the Golden World Awards almost every year since.
Barbara Burns In Memoriam
in Press Release 3 weeks, 1 day ago
IPRA pays its respects to Barbara Burns who has died at the age of 90. Barbara joined IPRA in 1976. Born in New Jersey she moved to New York and worked in advertising and public relations for a number of firms in the US, in Brazil and in France. She was Senior VP at RuderFinn before establishing her own firm Barbara Burns International. She was an IPRA Council member for many years and chaired a number of committees.
Pots That Develop from Peru takes the Grand Prix at the 2024 IPRA Golden World Awards, while there is a spark about the Global Contribution Award in Croatia
in Press Release 3 weeks, 2 days ago
The Grand Prix 2024 of the IPRA Golden World Awards for Excellence (GWA), the world’s most prestigious PR awards scheme, went to Pots That Develop countering rural food poverty. The campaign from Peru’s Alicorp was given a PR boost by agency LLYC featuring it within the local SUMMUM national gastronomy awards.
AI: a key part of Pact for the Future at UN Summit
in Press Release 1 month, 2 weeks ago
IPRA representatives James McQueeny and Matthew Cossel attended the UN Summit of the Future, a global convening of intergovernmental organizations to create an action-oriented Pact for the Future. The Pact was ratified by the UN Member States on 22 September 2024 and is linked here together with its UN Resolution here. The Pact is the culmination of a lengthy process to adapt international cooperation to the realities of today and the challenges of tomorrow.
Message from the IPRA President: A Time for Celebration October 2024
in Press Release 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Dear friends and colleagues,
Invitation to the IPRA webinar 2025 to 2035: the trends that PR professionals should have on their radar on 10 October 2024
in Press Release 2 months ago
I am pleased to invite you to the next in the series of IPRA Thought Leadership webinars. The webinar 2025 to 2035: the trends that PR professionals should have on their radar will be presented by Stephen Dupont on Thursday 10 October 2024 at 12.00 GMT/UCT (unadjusted).
Message from the IPRA President: Redefining the Future September 2024
in Press Release 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Dear friends and colleagues,
Invitation to an IPRA webinar on AI for crisis communications: 12 September 2024
in Press Release 3 months, 1 week ago
I am pleased to invite you to the next in the series of IPRA Thought Leadership webinars. The webinar Using AI for crisis communications will be presented by Philippe Borremans on Thursday 12 September 2024 at 12.00 GMT/UCT (unadjusted).
Message from the IPRA President: New era – new bias August 2024
in Press Release 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Dear friends and colleagues,
Malaysian practitioners in new IPRA co-operation agreement
in Press Release 4 months ago
IPRA, the International Public Relations Association, has signed a partnership agreement with the new Public Relations Practitioners Society of Malaysia (PRactitioners). Under the agreement, inter alia, the organisations will exchange information, share publications and help promote the ethical development of the PR profession with our codes and guidelines.
Invitation to IPRA members: the 2024 United Partners Retreat
in Press Release 4 months ago
We are excited to share that IPRA is an official partner of the 2024 UPN Retreat – a one-and-a-half-day retreat for PR professionals. This unique event is bringing together amazing people to learn, grow, connect with like-minded peers, and have some fun. If you are one of those amazing people – join UPN at this annual communications professionals’ retreat in Barcelona.
IPRA creates new AI and PR Chapter
in Press Release 4 months ago
As the world became serious about Artificial Intelligence, IPRA realised that there was a global need to ensure that the ethical communication championed by IPRA for 70 years is not compromised by a new technology. First, we created the IPRA AI and PR guidelines. And now we are launching the AI and PR Chapter to ensure our members stay on top of developments and can intervene as required.