Occupy Wall Street and a battle over PR prize for the protest movement | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it
From www.washingtonpost.com - June 12, 2012 9:58 PM
A PR firm that helped to support Occupy just won a prestigious award for its work, much to the movement’s chagrin.

 

Occupy Wall Street may be weakened, but the brand seems to be doing fine: The protest movement just won a prestigious PR award.

 

Technically, the award went to Workhouse Publicity, a high-end New York firm that launched a pro-bono Occupy campaign after protestors took over Zuccotti Park last year. On Thursday, Workhouse scored the Public Relations Society of America’s Silver Anvil Award — the Oscar of the industry — for public service with an entry called “The Revolution Will Be Editorialized.”...