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Paul Furiga is president and chief storyteller of WordWrite. Founded in 2002, WordWrite is a perennial top-ranked firm. In O’Dwyer’s national rankings, WordWrite posted the fourth-greatest growth among 123 ranked agencies in 2017. In 2019, the Pittsburgh Business Times named WordWrite one of the 50 fastest growing companies in Western Pennsylvania.
Paul has been honored by the Pittsburgh chapter of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) with its Renaissance Hall of Fame Award. The chapter’s highest honor recognizes a professional who’s made a substantial impact in the region. He is a member of the Forbes Agency Council.
WordWrite has received numerous awards for its work, from PRSA, IABC and other professional organizations. Its work has also appeared in PR News books as case studies of excellence.
Paul’s passion for storytelling inspired him to form WordWrite and to focus on developing the concept of a Capital S Story, the story above all others that explains why someone would work for an organization, buy from it, partner with it or invest in it.
Before founding WordWrite, Paul was a vice president at Ketchum Public Relations, where he served clients including Alcoa, Bridgestone/Firestone and Rutgers University.
Paul also spent two decades as a journalist. He edited the Pittsburgh Business Times, was an editor and correspondent for the Thomson Washington, D.C. bureau, and was senior editor of OhioWeek and a reporter for The Cincinnati Enquirer.
As a Congressional Fellow of the American Political Science Association, Paul was an aide to U.S. Sen. Paul Simon of Illinois and later, issues director for Simon’s 1988 presidential run. Paul graduated from Miami University in Ohio in 1980 with a degree in mass communication.
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