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The Boston Globe: For More Young Blacks, Its Cool to be Smart (Microtrends)

The New Cool Kids: Part of a rising counterculture, smart, black teenagers are flexing their intelligence instead of hiding it …

iMedia Connection: Reach Consumers Who Friend Before They Spend (Microtrends)

Reach Consumers Who Friend Before They Spend Ever scoured the web for information about a brand of shampoo you’ve been consi…

Mark Penn Participates in BusinessWeek’s 2009 Media Summit

Mark Penn participated in the summit’s panel entitled “Global Media and Advertising: The Transition – TV, Broadband, Mobile …

Wall Street Journal Microtrends Column: Value is the New Green

By MARK PENN with E. KINNEY ZALESNE From The Wall Street Journal Microtrends Column Published March 13, 2009 Until recently, being…

MSNBC: Mark Penn Explains Recession Microtrends on Morning Joe

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Strategist Mark Penn discusses how unprepared the US is …

Wall Street Journal Microtrends Column: Laid-Off Lawyers and Other Professionals

By MARK PENN with E. KINNEY ZALESNE From The Wall Street Journal Microtrends Column Published March 2, 2009 With all the concern a…

Politico: Obama bets on the ‘House’ card

By MARK PENN Published February 20, 2009 If the $800 billion stimulus bill works, Barack Obama will go down as a great president w…

Wall Street Journal Microtrends Column: Green Workers

By MARK PENN with E. KINNEY ZALESNE From The Wall Street Journal Microtrends Column Published February 19, 2009 Presidents and pol…

Wall Street Journal Microtrends Column: Committed Cohabiters

By MARK PENN with E. KINNEY ZALESNE From The Wall Street Journal Microtrends Column Published February 3, 2009 With all the stimul…

The Firm Voice: Post-Inaugural PR: What to Expect in Politics and the PR Agency Business in 2009

The Firm Voice: Post-Inaugural PR: What to Expect in Politics and the PR Agency Business in 2009 Many assumed a “wait and se…

Wall Street Journal Microtrends Column: New Info Shoppers

By MARK PENN with E. KINNEY ZALESNE From The Wall Street Journal Microtrends Column Published January 8, 2009 With so much attenti…

Wall Street Journal Microtrends Column: Quasi-Government Workers

By MARK PENN with E. KINNEY ZALESNE From The Wall Street Journal Microtrends Column Published December 24, 2008 Just as more peopl…

Wall Street Journal Microtrends Column: The Impressionable Elites Get Snookered

By MARK PENN with E. KINNEY ZALESNE From The Wall Street Journal Microtrends Column Published December 19, 2008 For most of this c…

Wall Street Journal Microtrends Column: The Mattress Stuffers

By MARK PENN with E. KINNEY ZALESNE From The Wall Street Journal Microtrends Column Published December 10, 2008 As the financial c…

Politico: Most affluent voters key to Obama sweep

By MARK PENN Published November 11, 2008 Barack Obama promised he would lower taxes for 95 percent of Americans and presumably rai…

Politico: Transition to new administration tricky

By MARK PENN Published November 4, 2008 The presidential campaign, in the end, had no October surprises beyond the worsening econo…

Politico: Young moderates – A fragile coalition

By MARK PENN Published October 28, 2008 This election promises to offer a fundamental realignment that could stand for decades to …

Politico: What’s ‘in’ is now ‘out’

By MARK PENN Published October 14, 2008 As Monty Python used to say, “No one expects the Spanish Inquisition” — which is ano…

Mark Penn Participates in Time Warner’s Politics 2008 Summit

Mark Penn participates in panel entitled “Media Power Vs. Political Power: The 2008 Election Re-defining the Relationship…

Politico: Bailout vote is proof: The center holds

By MARK PENN Published October 7, 2008 My polling over the years has found that about two-thirds of Democrats define themselves as…