Paul Furiga, ABC
President, CEO
paul.furiga@wordwritepr.com

After two decades in public relations, journalism and government, Paul Furiga founded WordWrite Communications, putting his award-winning storytelling skills to work for companies with great untold stories.

Every company has at least one great story to tell: its own. WordWrite’s team of corporate storytellers help shape that story and share it with everyone who needs to hear it.WordWrite has emerged as one of the fastest-growing PR firms in Pittsburgh. Its clients range from MEDRAD, Inc. to Allegheny Conference on Community Development, Pfizer Inc., Cowden Associates and Koppers Inc.

Before forming WordWrite in 2002, Paul was a vice president at Ketchum public relations in Pittsburgh, serving clients including Alcoa, Bridgestone/Firestone, the Florida State Board of Administration and Rutgers University. He was Ketchum’s top labor counselor, part of the leadership for Ketchum Inside, a global workplace and change management practice. In 2001, the Ketchum labor team won a Silver Anvil for internal communications at Rutgers University.

Before joining Ketchum in 1998, Paul was editor of the Pittsburgh Business Times, a weekly business journal. Under his leadership, the paper was named best weekly in Pennsylvania. He previously spent six years as a correspondent and deputy bureau chief at Thomson Newspapers in Washington, D.C., covering four presidential conventions, the White House and Congress for a news service serving 115 daily papers. He began his career at The Cincinnati Enquirer, covering city hall, courts and special projects. He has also written for publications ranging from Congressional Quarterly to Frequent Flyer magazine.

In addition to his work as a journalist, Paul was a Congressional Fellow, serving as a legislative aide to U.S. Sen. Paul Simon of Illinois on trade, economic and budget issues. He was Issues Director on Sen. Simon’s 1988 presidential campaign, supervising a staff that handled speechwriting, position papers, debate preparation and opposition research.

Paul is a 1980 graduate of Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, with a B.S. in Mass Communication. He is an Accredited Business Communicator, a designation earned from the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) and held by fewer than 10 percent of all communicators. Paul serves on numerous boards, including those of the River City Brass Band, the Rivers Club of Pittsburgh and the IABC Pittsburgh chapter.

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