The Philadelphia Public Relations Association, Inc. (PPRA) is the premier association for public relations professionals in the Greater Philadelphia area. Founded in 1945, PPRA is the nation's oldest and largest independent public relations association.
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Bill Cowen, Metrospective Communications LLC
2009-2010 PPRA President
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PPRA Member: Ellen Toplin
Member Since: August 1999
News Feature:
On May 13, 2009, Ellen S. Toplin, president of StarToplin, became the 35th recipient of the Philadelphia Public Relations Association's Hall of Fame Award.
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According to police shots were fired outside of the Harrison Elementary School in North Philadelphia just after dismissal Monday afternoon.
Charges are pending against a passenger who allegedly attempted to bring a loaded weapon onto a U.S. Airways flight.
Relieved that a N.J. wrestling coach can no longer teach after admitting to inappropriately touching a student, we think the sport of wrestling should go too.
Albert Pujols has edged past Chase Utley for the race to be the National League's top All-Star vote-getter.
Adam Brown rented a Lamborghini to take his wife out on the town for their fifth wedding anniversary. He died behind the wheel the night before.
Cherry Hill is set to become the latest township in New Jersey to offer first time homebuyers incentives to live where they work. The city is about to join a statewide program whose name sums up its main goal.
Philadelphia union contracts expire in just over a week. Talks between the blue and white collar union workers and the city are expected to resume this morning.
The stumbling economy has hit many vulnerable groups across the country. Now people who have AIDS or are HIV-positive in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware can add their names to that list.
Any hope for an on-time state budget has all but vanished in Harrisburg. Lawmakers say they'd consider passing an emergency short term budget if negotiations drag deep into the summer.
Three masked gunmen climbed through the drive-thru window of North Philadelphia McDonald's early today and bound three employees before fleeing with about $2,000 in cash, police said.
Philadelphia's film industry is taking a huge step forward in the business of bringing aspiring filmmakers together with distributors.
Little 7-year-old Dominick Philip of Tatamy may never go to a library again, not because he got a Wii or because he hates to read, but because a mean, nasty library employee told him he can never go to...
A suburban Philadelphia woman accused of faking her abduction and taking her daughter to Disney World has waived her right to a preliminary hearing.
Police are searching for a suspect involved in a deadly shooting in North Philadelphia late Sunday night.
Ryan Howard was released from the hospital Sunday but was not expected to play for the Philadelphia Phillies against Baltimore.(File)
The Phillies will hold their annual Phestival Monday night to help strike out ALS, the neuromuscular condition for which there is no known cause or cure.
A group of 94WYSP listeners have moved into a new set of wheels in hopes of winning a 2009 Ford Mustang.
Police said a man is being questioned after his wife and another woman were shot and killed in the Overbrook section of Philadelphia on Father's Day.
President Barack Obama says the pharmaceutical industry's agreement to help close a gap in Medicare's drug coverage will make health care overhaul more possible.
Runaway mom Bonnie Sweeten waived her preliminary hearing Monday and was ordered to stand trial on charged related to last month's abduction hoax.
Sorry, Paul Simon, Kodak is taking your Kodachrome away.
Sheldon Gross, 88, a partner in the firm that ran the Valley Forge Music Fair in Devon from 1955 until the 1990s, died of complications of bladder cancer on Friday at Palm Beach Gardens (Fla.) Medical Center.
After spells of rain that have left the foliage so lush that some roads in the region resemble green tunnels, on the first full day of summer some actual Philadelphia-style weather may be on the horizon.
Two people died in a car accident in Millville Sunday night, police said.