2017 Awards for Integrity in Public Communication honorees

With more than 35 years of top management experience ranging from small to medium-sized to Fortune 100

 companies, Ann Barkelew remains a prominent leader in the corporate public relations world with strong commitment to integrity. Barkelew is most known for her position as the retired founding general manager and senior partner at the FleishmanHillard International Communications Minneapolis/Saint Paul branch. At 

FleishmanHillard, she counseled and advised senior management projects of New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ corporations, professional sports institutions and other privately held firms. Barkelew also handled public relations needs assessment projects for CEOs corporate-wide until her retirement in 2002.

Throughout her career, Barkelew received numerous awards and achievements including the PR News Public Relations Professional of the Year in 1995, one of the Most Influential Women in Business in Minnesota in 1999, FleishmanHillard’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001, Arthur W. Page Society’s Distinguished Service Award in 2003, the Plank Center Legacy Mentorship Award in 2012 and the Twin Cities Business Monthly Marvelous Mentor Award in 2016.

From 1981 to 1994, Barkelew was vice president of corporate public relations for Dayton Hudson Corporation (nka Target), where she supervised all internal and external communication. Before her time at Dayton Hudson, Barkelew generated a new corporate program as the vice president of corporate affairs for Munsingwear, Inc. She also served as the chief public relations officer for the Los Angeles County Office of Education.

She is a former trustee and honoree of the Arthur W. Page Society; former president and accredited member of the National School Public Relations Association and co-founder of the North American Public Relations Council; and recognized member of the Public Relations Society of America and former chair of the Society’s College of Fellows. 

Passionate about her involvement in the community, Barkelew served on the boards of the Minnesota Humanities Center, the American Red Cross of the Twin Cities, The Children’s Theatre Company and womenwinning.  She also served on the board of directors for Minneapolis United Way and was a member of the Minnesota News Council.  She currently serves on the boards of Ecumen, VocalEssence and the International Women’s Forum-Minnesota.

Barkelew received a bachelor’s degree from Central Missouri State University and a master’s degree from the University of Missouri.

Dick Martin

Dick Martin is the former executive vice president of public relations, employee communications and brand management for AT&T, chairman of the AT&T Foundation and a member of the company’s senior-most policy committee.

Martin has written five books including, “OtherWise: The Wisdom You Need to Succeed in a Diverse and Divisive World," "Secrets of the Marketing Masters,” “Rebuilding Brand America” and “Tough Calls: AT&T and the Hard Lessons Learned from the Telecom Wars."  He is also the co-author of the textbook, “Public Relations Ethics: How to Practice PR without Losing Your Soul.” His articles have been published in numerous publications including the PR Encyclopedia, Harvard Business Review, Chief Executive, The Conference Board Review and the Journal of Business Strategy.

Martin’s contribution to the field of ethics in public relations has been significant.  In 2010, the “Holmes Report,” named his first book, “Tough Calls,” one of the five best PR books of the decade, and said “it might be the most honest insider’s account of high- pressure public relations ever committed to paper” and “by far the best book about the realities of working in corporate communications for a large American corporation.”

Martin has conducted ethics workshops for corporations, schools of public relations, and such professional organizations as the Institute of Public Relations, the Public Relations Society of America, and Corporate Communications International.  Most recently, he delivered a lecture at Baruch College’s Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity entitled “P. T. Barnum to Donald Trump: An Ethical Appraisal of Public Relations.”

Martin is an alumnus of St. Stephen’s College, where he majored in philosophy and Boston University’s School of Public Communication, where he received his master’s degree. Currently, he is on the Board of Advisors of Corporate Communication International and of the Board of Advisors of the Museum of Public Relations. Martin continues to write about public relations on his blogs www.dickmartinblogs.com and he updates the cases discussed in his ethics textbook at Updates.PRethics.com.

Alan Murray

Alan Murray is chief content officer of Time Inc. In this role, he oversees the media company’s editorial policies and standards and is responsible for its commitment to quality journalism and storytelling. He is focused on harnessing the collective power and scale of all Time Inc.’s brands to produce and distribute content on every platform.

Murray also serves as editor-in-chief of Fortune, a position he has held since August 2014. He oversees Fortune’s print and digital operations, which has a combined audience of more than 15 million. Under Murray’s leadership, Fortune has tripled its digital audience, quadrupled its presence on social media, quintupled its video views and cut the average age of Fortune readers by a decade.

Murray’s diverse background includes serving as president of the Pew Research Center, hosting an eponymous show on CNBC and spending more than two decades at the Wall Street Journal, where he served stints overseeing digital operations and the Journal’s Washington bureau.

At the Wall Street Journal, Murray served as deputy managing editor and executive editor, online, from 2007 to 2012, with editorial responsibility for the Journal’s websites, mobile products, television, video, books and conferences. He also spent a decade as the Journal’s Washington Bureau Chief, from 1993 to 2002, during which the bureau won three Pulitzer Prizes.

Murray is the author of four books: “The Wall Street Journal Guide to Management,” “Revolt in the Boardroom,” “The Wealth of Choices and Showdown at Gucci Gulch,” coauthored with Jeffrey Birnbaum. He is a member of the Gridiron Club, the New York Economics Club and the Council on Foreign Relations, and he serves on the Governing Council of the Miller Center for Public Affairs at the University of Virginia.

Murray began his journalism career as the business and economics editor of the Chattanooga Times. He also worked at the Congressional Quarterly in Washington and at the Nihon Keizai Shimbun in Tokyo on a Luce Fellowship. He received a bachelor’s degree in English literature as a Morehead Scholar at the University of North Carolina and earned a master’s degree in economics at the London School of Economics.