COM Prof Honored for Public Relations Research
COM’s Donald K. Wright wins the Arthur W. Page Society’s 2007 Distinguished Service Award.
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Donald K. Wright, a College of Communication professor of public relations, was unanimously chosen to receive the Arthur W. Page Society’s 2007 Distinguished Service Award. The award is given annually to honor those who work to strengthen the field of public relations.
“Receiving this honor is exciting, very special, and humbling, because it is not only bestowed by peers," says Wright, "but it is also presented by an organization whose values I deeply cherish.”
The Arthur W. Page Society is an organization of public relations professionals, from CEOs of major PR agencies to academics from schools of business and communications. Its mission is to strengthen the management-policy role of chief public relations officers.
“My research about public relations and communications ethics has gone on for more than 30 years,” Wright said at the September award ceremony. “And one thing that always has impressed me about the Arthur W. Page Society is the stark reality that companies that have senior-level corporate communications officers highly involved in this society rarely, if ever, face ethical criticism.”
A corporate communications consultant for three decades, Wright has worked in corporate, agency, and university public relations. The author of nearly 200 articles, monographs, and book chapters, he has also worked as a daily newspaper reporter, a weekly newspaper editor, and a broadcast journalist.
Wright has been a member of the board of trustees of the Arthur W. Page Society since 1989.
Jessica Leving can be reached at jleving@bu.edu.
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