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Widmeyer Q&A: Dorothy Gilliam
By Margaret Dunning, Principal & Chief Strategy Officer

FRIDAY, APRIL 27TH, 2012

Widmeyer Communications is a proud partner of Prime Movers Media (PMM), founded by the highly regarded Dorothy Gilliam. Ms. Gilliam, the first African-American female reporter at The Washington Post, is the former president of the National Association of Black Journalists and received the Lifetime Achievement Award from [...]


Widmeyer client Public Affairs Council conducted its first-ever Public Affairs Pulse survey to go beyond the headlines and ask what the public really thinks of business and standard business practices. The answers are surprising, and generated significant interest from media outlets [...]


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Is So the New Like?
By Margaret Dunning, Principal & Chief Strategy Officer

TUESDAY, JUNE 21ST, 2011

John Kelly, a columnist for The Washington Post, recently wrote about “things I hate.”  Among these were “People who start every other sentence with ‘So.’ So, have you noticed this? So, nine times out of 10 you don’t need the word. So, it has become the verbal golf tee on which certain people tee up [...]


The seven members of the American Energy Innovation Council (AEIC) – Microsoft Co-founder Bill Gates, Bank of America Chairman Chad Holliday, GE CEO Jeff Immelt, Cummins CEO Tim Solso, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Partner John Doerr, Xerox CEO Ursula Burns, and former chairman of Lockheed Martin, Norm Augustine – were featured in the Washington [...]


Margaret Dunning who heads Widmeyer’s Washington office, was quoted in a recent Washington Post article about presumptive Mayor Vincent Gray.
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The racial healing initiative of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, a Widmeyer Client, was featured on May 11 in the Washington Post. The Post article included comments from the foundation president, Sterling Speirn, on the realities facing our nation as well one of the initiative’s many supporters, Rep. John Lewis of Georgia, who “called it the [...]


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The W.K. Kellogg Foundation, a Widmeyer client, secured an interview for Sterling Speirn, as part of the Washington Post’s exclusive coverage of President Barack Obama’s latest announcement around improving science and mathematics instruction.


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The Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, a Widmeyer education client, leveraged the existing debate on a possible college football playoff in its most recent op-ed. Published in the Washington Post on Saturday, December 19, the Commission co-chairmen called attention to the financial crisis in college sports by hooking into a hot topic during football bowl [...]


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Two weeks after the official Computer Science Education Week (CSEdWeek, Dec. 6-12), led by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) to raise awareness about the computing field, the issue is still witnessing an unprecedented amount of coverage.


Widmeyer client Middle East Investment Initiative (MEII) was featured in a November 23rd article in The Washington Post on economic development in Palestine and a blog post on The New Entrepreneur, a BusinessWeek blog, which focused on MEII’s work in the region.