GEORGETOWN — John Guilfoil Public Relations LLC (JGPR) is proud to announce the company has been honored with two 2020 PRNews PR People Awards, and one of its employees was honored as one of PRNews’s National 31 Rising PR Stars Age 30 & Under.
Company founder John Guilfoil and Account Manager for Northern New England Jordan Mayblum were honored with two of the PR News’ PR People Awards, recognizing the top performing national professionals in the field of Public Relations. Account Executive Leah Comins was honored as one of the nation’s Rising PR Stars Age 30 and Under.
“I am so proud to work alongside each member of the JGPR family, as we close out our seventh year of operations. Each team member is committed to excellence and quality in their work, and it is that dedication that has made JGPR a national agency,” said Guilfoil said. “Jordan and Leah are extremely well-deserving of these honors and have excelled through this most challenging year, maintaining a high level of work and growing the business despite the many challenges and uncertainties of 2020.”
The PRNews PR People Awards and the Rising PR Stars 30 & Under Awards recognize exceptional communicators from a national field of professionals from corporate communications to boutique firms. The awards drew from hundreds of entries from across the country to select the final 70 honorees. JGPR tied with three other communications firms for the most awards given to a single company.
JGPR’s PRNEWS PR People Awards Winners, include:
John Guilfoil, JGPR Principal, has demonstrated unflappable leadership and reliability in communication for the company’s clients through the COVID-19 crisis. He innovated several ways to improve police, fire, and municipal communication about COVID-19, including the creation and launch of more than a dozen COVID-19 news portals for cities and town across Massachusetts. These portals have proven important community resources for coronavirus news and updates and have had more than a half million views combined since the COVID-19 crisis began.
During 2020 John has nearly doubled the company’s number of employees, and added a video division in response to client demand that has produced more than 150 videos in eight months. He also oversaw a surge in temporary hiring that saw JGPR bring back former interns, colleagues in the media industry and freelancers during the first COVID-19 peak this past spring. At peak, nearly 30 people were working for JGPR.
John founded JGPR at the end of 2013 after recognizing that local police and fire departments are underrepresented in the media. Since then the company has expanded its client base to include municipalities and school districts. This is John’s fourth PR News PR People Award. He has twice been honored as the national Public Affairs Professional of the Year and is a previous PR News national Crisis Manager of the Year.
To get a glimpse of JGPR’s teamwork during the pandemic, take a look at our Communicating During COVID-19 video.
These awards are the latest honor the growing company has earned in recent years. In October, JGPR received an Honorable Mention in the 2020 PRNews Platinum PR Awards category of Public Relations Team of the Year. In June, JGPR’s Southern New England Division swept the Local/Regional Television News Placement category at the 52nd Annual Bell Ringer Awards—the fifth consecutive year that JGPR had been honored by the PR Club and the second time in the company’s history that it has received a Gold Bell Ringer. In 2016, JGPR received a Gold Bell Ringer and was a finalist for the PR Campaign of the Year/Platinum Super Bell for its work on the Gloucester ANGEL Initiative.
About John Guilfoil Public Relations LLC:
Content. Strategy. Standards. With the philosophy that every police and fire department and government agency deserves effective communications and public relations on the same scale as major corporations, John Guilfoil Public Relations provides clear, concise written materials, communications strategy, website development, marketing materials, branding and crisis management services for its clients and responds to breaking news incidents for more than 400 police and fire departments, public schools, municipal governments and non-profits in nine states. The company is based in Georgetown, Massachusetts and was founded in 2013 by John Guilfoil, a former Boston Globe staff reporter who served as deputy press secretary for the late Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino. Visit John Guilfoil Public Relations online at www.jgpr.net.
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