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 Mark H. LaVigne established Hunter LaVigne Communications Inc. in 1997, an Aurora-based creative communications consultancy with proven associates across the GTA and country.
Hunter LaVigne Communications Inc. (HLC) specializes in the organizational/news interface, including: media relations; media training; media events planning and management. The “brand” is HLC’s focus.
Mark knows both sides of the “media fence” well. For five years, he was a national on-air radio journalist and for the last 20 years, he has worked in public relations agencies.
After completing a Master of Arts in Journalism at the University of Western Ontario’s Graduate School of Journalism, Mark worked as a radio journalist in Calgary, Edmonton, and Toronto. Prior to UWO, he completed an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communications and English at York University.
He is a member of the Canadian Public Relations Society (CPRS) College of Fellows (2010), an accredited member (APR) of CPRS, is a Past-President of CPRS (Toronto) and has served on the national CPRS board for six years, including as an elected Vice President/Secretary. He has won several CPRS awards. His book on proactive media relations, Making Ink and Airtime, was published in October, 2008, a compilation of newsletter articles he published in the past seven years.
Mark sits on the Advisory Council to the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of Western Ontario and has taught part-time in the Corporate Communications Program at Seneca College, a graduate level PR course situated at Seneca’s York University campus, as well as at Ryerson University.
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