Cristal Downing has been a member of PRWeek’s Health Influencer 30 list and an honoree of PRWeek’s Women of Distinction program. And as of this week, she’s now a guest on The PR Week podcast. 

Downing talks about her organization’s commitment to purpose and diversity, as well as how communications at Merck has changed since she joined the company. 

Plus the biggest marketing and communications news of the week, such as the start of the UEFA European Championship, 

Nathan’s Famous freezing out Joey Chestnut and Shutterstock’s new AOR. 

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It’s going to be a big summer for soccer in the U.S. with the American men's and women’s teams participating in the Summer Olympic Games in Paris and the Copa America kicking off this month. And that’s just a warm-up for the 2026 World Cup, which will be held across the U.S., Canada and Mexico. 

Heidi Burgett, VP of corporate communications for U.S. Soccer, talks about those events, as well as her career at Nike and the explosion of women’s sports on the latest edition of The PR Week podcast. 

Also on the agenda: the biggest marketing and communications news of the week, including top executive moves at 

Hill & Knowlton and Havas PR, PRWeek’s Pride in PR list, a big account win for Golin and major changes at The Washington Post. 

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The latest guest on The PR Week podcast is Nicole Dye-Anderson, SVP, MD and head of corporate communications for cards and merchant services at Wells Fargo. 

She talks about the company’s initiatives and how it’s worked to refurbish its image after scandal. Dye-Anderson also adds her point of view to the biggest PR and communications news of the week, including:

- The “brutal” job market for PR pros over age 50; 

- Pride 2024; 

- Melinda French Gates’ contributions to organizations helping women.

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There is a new proven process of pairing compelling stories with data-driven analytics to drive your business goals with media relations. Lisa Arledge Powell, CEO and founder of MediaSource, and Kena Lewis, AVP, public affairs & media relations at Orlando Health, share their vast wisdom on this topic from which all communicators can greatly benefit. They introduce new methods and tactics to drive business using media relations. They underscore the why and how of being truly strategic in your media outreach. And they share concrete examples of all this in action. 

And better still, you can click here for a free download of the associated white paper entitled Effectively Quantifying the Business Value of Media Relations at Orlando Health. This report truly breaks down a test-and-learn approach to data analysis that is commonly used in industries from retail to telecommunications and shares how communicators can now apply this to PR measurement.

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One of the best-known healthcare influencers, Dr. Mike Varshavski, is the special guest on the latest edition of The PR Week podcast, recorded live on Tuesday at the PRWeek Healthcare Conference+Awards. He talks about dealing with disinformation, which social media platforms he prefers and how medical professionals should keep the public informed. 

That’s not all on this special edition of The PR Week. Reporter Brandon Doerrer chats with conference panelists and guests, and there’s a celebration of the best PR campaigns, agencies and organizations at the Healthcare Awards. 

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London calling! PRWeek U.S. editorial director Steve Barrett checks in from the PRWeek Global Awards in this latest edition of the PR Week Podcast. The special guest is the chair of judges for the event: Sabina Ellahi, who is joining Sephora U.K. as head of PR and communications. 

PRWeek executive editor Frank Washkuch and associate news editor Diana Bradley also discuss the biggest marketing and communications news of the week, including 5W Public Relations’ new CEO, the Boy Scouts’ latest rebranding and Bumble’s campaign missteps. 

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BRG Communications has had a wildly successful run at the last two PRWeek Awards U.S., taking home Outstanding Boutique Agency at both events. 

The firm’s president and CEO, Jane Barwis, talks about her firm’s culture on the latest edition of The PR Week and how it services a national client roster from its headquarters near Washington, DC. 

Also on the show: the biggest marketing and communications news of the week, including the PRWeek Agency Business Report 2024, the Drake-Kendrick Lamar beef and controversial comments by the CEO of Hims & Hers. 

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Leah Chandler has served as chief marketing officer of Discover Puerto Rico since 2018, and in that time, she’s been busy. Chandler has reworked the island’s agency relationships into a collective of firms and developed a wide-ranging crisis-response plan for everything from hurricanes to shark bites. 

She joins the latest edition of The PR Week podcast to talk about that, as well as the biggest marketing and communications news of the week, such as major people moves at Kenvue and Generate:Biomedicines and fresh developments in nationwide student protests and AI. 

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This week’s special guest on The PR Week podcast is none other than the CEO of Phaedon, Kris Tremaine. 

Tremaine talks about the evolution of her firm — as well as what its name means in Greek — from part of ICF Next. 

She also chats about the biggest PR and communications news of the week, such as changes to the Burson agency network and staff, holding company results from Next 15, Omnicom Group and Interpublic Group and Shake Shack’s clever influencer decision. 

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Airline crises. Labor relations. Working through the opening moments of a crisis on social media. 

All of these events require specific skills to protect brands, and each was discussed on Thursday at PRWeek’s sold out Crisis Comms Conference in Washington, DC. This podcast includes insights from top communications executives at UPS, Southwest Airlines and Miller Coors as they discuss how their brands navigate tricky situations. 

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