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Cooksey Recognized by PRSA Dallas as 2024 Small Agency of the Year
North Texas-based strategic communications firm Cooksey Communications has been recognized as the 2024 Small Agency of the Year in the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) Dallas chapter’s prestigious, annual Pegasus Awards competition. This honor from the local chapter of the PR industry’s leading professional organization recognizes Cooksey for a variety of major achievements and milestones over the past year, coinciding with the agency’s 30th anniversary.
Cooksey Promotes Real Estate & Development Practice Leader Mary Kate Jeffries to Senior Vice President
Cooksey Communications, a leading North-Texas based strategic communications firm, has promoted Mary Kate Jeffries to senior vice president. The promotion recognizes Jeffries’ more than two decades of public relations industry leadership, as well as her vital contributions to the agency, which was recently named PRSA Dallas’ Small Agency of the Year in the 2024 Pegasus Awards competition.
Cooksey Secures Three dotCOMM Awards Honoring Digital Advertising and Marketing Achievements
North Texas-based strategic communications firm Cooksey Communications recently received three 2024 dotCOMM Awards, an international competition that honors the industry's best web and digital work. This is the seventh straight year that Cooksey has earned recognition in the dotCOMM Awards program.
Cooksey Promotes Collin Yoxall to Account Supervisor in Public Sector Practice
Collin Yoxall has been promoted to account supervisor in the Public Sector Practice Group at Cooksey Communications, a leading, North-Texas based strategic communications firm. Since joining the firm in September 2022 as a senior account executive, Yoxall has worked to evaluate communication structures and practices, develop and execute media relations strategies, provide vital crisis communications counsel, and facilitate stakeholder engagement on behalf of agency clients such as the City of Richardson, Irving Economic Development Partnership, Tarrant Regional Transportation Coalition, University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth and the UNT System.
Cooksey Promotes Regan Welch to Account Executive
Cooksey Communications, a leading, North-Texas based strategic communications firm, recently promoted Regan Welch to account executive. She has worked with key clients in Cooksey’s distinguished Professional Services, Real Estate & Development and Public Sector practice groups including Weil, Hillwood, VanTrust and the Irving Economic Development Partnership, among others.
Trendwatching and Tripwires – Where We Are, and Where We’re Going
In late 2023 and early 2024, Cooksey Communications distributed a 30-question survey (the “Public Sector Insights Index”) to public sector communicators across Texas and nationwide, seeking to gain insights about the hottest topics and trends affecting government communications and engagement programs, which are currently driving future resource allocation and strategy planning. Below is a brief […]