News - Master of Communications Management

July 28, 2022

Financial Management: how the MCM program is equipping communications leaders with the quantitative fluency to drive impact

By Josie Cassano Rizzuti, MCM, APR  Instructor – Financial Management, McMaster-Syracuse Master of Communications Management The intersection of finance and communications were top of mind on the first day of the MCM Summer Residency. We wrapped up our Financial Management course, which started during Winter Residency. Through the term, we had spirited conversations about … Continued

July 8, 2022

MCM Summer 2022 Residency: Connecting and Reconnecting, In-Person

MCM Summer residency marked our community’s return to in-person learning. It was a dynamic and diverse week of connecting and reconnecting for students, alumni, faculty and staff. Read on to learn about the experiences and events that made this Residency special Every semester, the McMaster-Syracuse Master of Communications Management (MCM) program hosts a … Continued

September 24, 2021

Terry Flynn receives national award for ethical public relations from the Canadian Public Relations Society

Terry Flynn, director of the Master of Communication Management (MCM) program in the Faculty of Humanities, is the first recipient of the newly named Heather Pullen Memorial Award for Ethical Public Relations from the Canadian Public Relations Society. The award, which was created to recognize outstanding commitment to ethical public relations, is named for … Continued

November 11, 2020

McMaster professor named chief accreditation examiner of the Canadian Public Relations Society

Dr. Alex Sévigny, a longtime associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies and Multimedia, has been named chief examiner of the Accreditation in Public Relations (APR) program of the Canadian Public Relations Society (CPRS) — the national professional body for public relations and communications management practitioners.

November 6, 2020

Leading Change: MCM Commitment to EDIB

An open letter to my fellow communicators by Sara Goldvine, MCM, APR You’ve blown me away. When our small collective of allied professionals put out the call for communications and public relations leaders to join discussions for an anti-racism summit next year, we were hoping for 20 or 30 participants. Within the first week, more than … Continued

September 16, 2020

Remembering Heather Pullen, MCM, APR, FCPRS

Our MCM community is saddened today at the news of Heather’s death. Last night, with her family by her side, Heather passed away at St. Peter’s hospital in Hamilton, following a nearly three-year battle with cancer. We are devastated by the loss of our wonderful friend but grateful to know that she is no … Continued

May 29, 2020

Communications and Public Relations Leaders as Anti-Racism Change Agents: A Call to Action

Sharlyn Carrington, Gail Strachan, Sara Goldvine, Parm Chohan, Sarah Thomas & Terry Flynn This has been a year like no other. We are, in many ways, living through a time when the very systems we’ve all taken for granted are being disrupted. While the pandemic has led to untold death and pain, which we are … Continued

March 6, 2020

15 MCM alumni and students will be presenting their research at conferences in the Canada, U.S., Italy and Slovenia in 2020

It’s been a successful year for MCM alumni and students as they continue the tradition of sharing their research and scholarship at academic and professional conferences around the world in 2020. The largest contingent of students (9 in total) will travel to Lake Bled Slovenia in July to present and participate at BledCom 2020 in the shadow … Continued