The PR Week The PR Week, 8.21.2025: Torod Neptune, University of North Carolina
The latest guest on The PR Week podcast is Torod Neptune, a veteran of prominent in-house and agency roles from Medtronic to Waggener Edstrom.
Neptune is also a member of the 2025 PRWeek Hall of Fame class, announced just this morning, alongside other industry heavyweights.
Now a member of the faculty of the University of North Carolina, Neptune talks about PR and communications in academia, as well as the biggest marketing and communications news of the week, including PRWeek’s profile of OpenAI communications leader Hannah Wong.
Plus, remembering longtime Southwest Airlines head of PR and culture Ginger Hardage, who passed away last Saturday.
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