Case Studies

Metro Nashville Airport Authority

2/16/2010
Nashville has grown significantly as a city over the last decade, from the dozens of relocated corporate headquarters to the renaissance of downtown Nashville. And as Nashville has evolved, the ...

Earth Hour Nashville 2009

1/25/2010
How do you convince hundreds of Music City businesses, owners of major buildings and residents to turn off all nonessential lights for one hour on a busy March Saturday night?

Nashville Health Care Council

4/14/2009
A national spotlight was shining on Nashville in October of 2008 as Belmont University hosted the second of three presidential debates between John McCain and Barack Obama. To take advantage ...

Nashville for All of Us Special Election Campaign

4/14/2009
For two years, a group in Nashville worked to make English the only permissible language for use by Metro government. Tapping into public anger over immigration issues, Metropolitan Nashville Council ...

Job Corps

8/22/2008
In 1995, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Job Corps program faced a problem in the Southeast: how to recruit more age- and income-appropriate students to the program’s education and job ...

Meth Destroys

7/29/2008
In September 2005, the Tennessee District Attorneys General Conference retained MP&F to conduct a statewide anti-methamphetamine campaign. There were multiple objectives: to educate and inform the public, particularly school-age youth, ...

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Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Maraniss to speak at MP&F Speaker Series Today

2/23/2010

Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Maraniss of The Washington Post will be the guest of honor at the 13th installment of the MP&F Speaker Series today at 4:30 p.m. David will discuss his new book, “Into the Story: A Writer’s Journey Through Life, Politics, Sports and Loss,” at a reception, discussion and book signing at the MP&F office. Not only is David an MP&F client (we designed his Web site, www.davidmaraniss.com), he’s also the father, and father-in-law, of two of our employees! If you’d like to attend, please RSVP to bookevent@mpf.com.

About David Maraniss

Maraniss is an associate editor at The Washington Post. In addition to “Into the Story: A Writer’s Journey Through Life, Politics, Sports and Loss,” (publication date, January 2010), Maraniss is the author of five critically acclaimed and bestselling books, “When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi,” “First in His Class: A Biography of Bill Clinton,” “They Marched Into Sunlight – War and Peace,” “Vietnam and America, October 1967,” “Clemente – The Passion and Grace of Baseball’s Last Hero,” and “Rome 1960: The Summer Olympics That Stirred the World.” He is also the author of “The Clinton Enigma” and coauthor of “The Prince of Tennessee: Al Gore Meets His Fate” and “Tell Newt to Shut Up!”

David is a three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and won the Pulitzer for national reporting in 1993 for his newspaper coverage of then-presidential candidate Bill Clinton. He also was part of The Washington Post team that won a 2008 Pulitzer for the newspaper's coverage of the Virginia Tech shooting. He has won several other notable awards for achievements in journalism, including the George Polk Award, the Dirksen Prize for Congressional Reporting, the ASNE Laventhol Prize for Deadline Writing, the Hancock Prize for Financial Writing, the Anthony Lukas Book Prize, the Frankfort Book Prize, the Eagleton Book Prize, the Ambassador Book Prize, and Latino Book Prize.