| Contact: Brendan Gannon
Marketing Manager, Awards Programs
Ragan Communications and PR Daily
brendang@ragan.com Ragan and PR Daily to Celebrate the Finalists—and Announce Winners—of the 2020 Media Relations Awards During a Virtual Gala Ragan Communications and PR Daily have announced the finalists for the 2020 Media Relations Awards program and will honor these outstanding individual communicators and teams during a virtual awards gala on Thursday, Oct. 15, from 2 to 4 p.m. Eastern time. These finalists represent the innovative and successful media relations campaigns and projects that delivered results for organizations and clients. Ragan and PR Daily will also announce winners, honoring the best media relations work from the past year. This virtual event will be hosted by Ginger Zee, an Emmy and Murrow Award-winning meteorologist, and chief meteorologist at ABC News. Zee also has a New York Times best-selling memoir, “Natural Disaster: I Cover Them, I am One,” and she finished in third place on the 22nd season of “Dancing with the Stars.” The Media Relations Awards Virtual Gala will take place on Thursday, Oct. 15, from 2 to 4 p.m. Eastern time. The program also features guest presenters Brandi Boatner, Social and Influencer Communications Lead, Global Markets at IBM, and Sarah Evans, founder and CEO of Sevans Strategy. This celebratory virtual event is open to the public. Guests can reserve a Virtual Table of Six, which will be labeled with their company’s logo and ensures their team and guests will sit together to network before and during the event. Individual tickets are also available. Register for the Table of Six or individual tickets here. The full list of Media Relations Awards finalists can be found here. For registration questions, contact Brendan Gannon at brendang@ragan.com. For sponsorship questions, contact Hannah Lavelle at hannahl@ragan.com. About Ragan Communications and PR Daily: For more than 50 years, the Chicago-based media company has been delivering trusted news and information for internal and external communicators via its conferences, webinars, training, awards and membership divisions. Its daily news sites—PRDaily.com and Ragan.com —are read by more than 600,000 internal and external communicators monthly. Its Communications Leadership Council is one of the fastest-growing membership groups for communications executives. The recently-launched Ragan’s Crisis Leadership Board has been a support and resource as communicators make their way through the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. | 