Berman and Company's Sarah Longwell Wins Politics Magazine's 'Rising Star' Award

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Jul 16, 2010, 06:35 ET

WASHINGTON, July 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Berman and Company is pleased to announce that Sarah Longwell, Communications Director, has been recognized as a 2010 "Rising Star" by Campaigns & Elections' Politics Magazine.

Campaigns & Elections Rising Stars are people under 35-years-old who have already made a significant mark in political consulting, campaigning or advocacy. The 2010 class includes 15 Democrats, 15 Republicans and 11 nonpartisan or international leaders chosen from a pool of hundreds of nominees.

Past Rising Stars include David Axelrod, Paul Begala, Donna Brazile, James Carville, Alex Castellanos, Rahm Emanuel, Ed Gillespie, Alexis Herman, Karen Hughes, Laura Ingraham, Celinda Lake, Jim Pinkerton, Ralph Reed and George Stephanopoulos.

The following is an excerpt from Campaigns & Elections' profile of Sarah Longwell:

"It has been said that we always have a knife in our teeth," says Longwell. "And it's true that we are very edgy and aggressive in our issue advertising." She likes to think of one of the firm's missions as being a watchdog for the watchdog groups—organizations that she says often start out with good intentions but don't live up to the purity suggested in their names.

Berman and Company's mission is to "change the debate," not simply contribute to it. Through a fact-based, hard-hitting approach to public relations and issue advocacy, Berman and Company makes the public think twice about commonly held assumptions.

"While most 30-year-old communications professionals don't have multi-million dollar public education campaigns under their belts as she does, where Sarah truly excels is turning low-budget paid-media campaigns into Berman and Company's blockbuster earned-media campaigns," said Rick Berman, President of Berman and Company.

Berman continued: "Part pundit and part behind-the-scenes communications strategist, Sarah Longwell's abilities run the gamut."

Read Sarah Longwell's full profile here: http://www.politicsmagazine.com/magazine-issues/june_2010/2010-International-and-Nonpartisan-Rising-Stars.

Berman and Company is a dynamic research, communications, advertising, and government affairs firm which blends aggressive, creative thinking with functional expertise to achieve extraordinary results for our clients.

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