Responding to frequent requests from our members that we invite San Francisco columnist and Heather Knight to speak, we finally asked her whether we could entice her to come — and she agreed right away to join us. The PR Round Table will present Knight in a livestreamed conversation with Board Member Sarah Segal on […]
Read More2021 Valentine’s Fundraiser Features Carla Marinucci’s Inside Scoop on California Politics

Can you take a beloved event online and preserve its pizzazz? SFPRRT answered that question with an emphatic “YES!” – while raising more than $8,000 for the SFPRRT Scholarship Fund. Donna Sachet led off with a high-energy turn as auctioneer, raising $3,500 in the live auction alone. She then passed the torch to Carla Marinucci, […]
Read MoreFormer Round Table Chair Mike Brown Retires after Half-Century of News and Public Relations

Editor’s note: Our great colleague Mike Brown passed away peacefully on February 21, 2021, with his beloved family at his side. You can read his obituary here. The family has suggested that in lieu of flowers, donations in Mike’s memory may be made to Catholic Charities. Legendary public relations executive Mike Brown announced his retirement after serving […]
Read MoreSan Francisco Chronicle Columnist Otis Taylor Shares Why He Writes About Racism and Inequities

Click on the arrow above to watch the Zoom recording of Otis Taylor’s talk. Otis R. Taylor Jr. is a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. He writes about issues affecting the East Bay, but the impact of his words has no limits. Most of his columns deal with issues related to racism and culture. […]
Read MoreJoin Us Dec. 9 for a Virtual Lockdown Comedy Break

December 9, 2020 Holiday Program & Scholarship Fundraiser Join the San Francisco Public Relations Round Table for a Virtual Lockdown Comedy Break With Comedians Lisa Geduldig and Greg Proops Wednesday, December 9, 2020 12 noon – 1 p.m., with networking from 11:50 a.m.-noon We are thrilled to present two stars of the local comedy scene as […]
Read MoreKatharine Mieszkowski and Lance Williams of Reveal News Share How They Unearth the Facts

Two veteran Bay Area journalists spoke about investigative reporting at the October 7 meeting of the San Francisco Public Relations Round Table. Lance Williams and Katharine Mieszkowski, both senior reporters with Reveal News (part of The Center for Investigative Reporting nonprofit), discussed what makes a good investigative report, and then provided a case history for […]
Read MoreBeverly Butler Rose and Blodwen Tarter Named PR Round Table Life Members

Two longtime Round Table members have been named Life Members by the Round Table Board of Trustees. Beverly Butler Rose, APR, ABC, retired in early August as senior vice president and department head of Customer Experience Communications, Treasury Management, at Wells Fargo, and Blodwen Tarter, PhD, retired in late August as chair of the Marketing and […]
Read MoreCommunicating in a Pandemic

“2020 was to have been a banner year for San Francisco and the cruise business. Instead, we got coronavirus.” That’s how Randy Quezada put it when looking back over the past few months of his job as communications director at the Port of San Francisco. Quezada was a panelist at a discussion about managing communications […]
Read MoreHow PR Practitioners Can Help Make a Better World

A Statement by the Board of Trustees of the Public Relations Round Table of San Francisco It is hard to find the right words to say to people who are feeling great pain, and this, most unfortunately, is that time. We are all disturbed about our world in the aftermath of the tragic deaths of […]
Read MorePriya Clemens: A Journalist’s Journey Across the Country and Back

“Knowledge is our most precious resource,” says journalist Priya Clemens. She learned that during her stint as editor-in-chief of her elementary school newspaper. It’s still the foundation for all she does. And what she’s done! Washington, DC, New York, California – she’s been a TV producer and reporter for network and local news stations all […]
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