Awards
Awards
Cooney, Watson & Associates, Inc., was honored with the 2001 Marketer of the Year Award by the American Marketing Association. In addition, our firm has won more than 45 ADDY AWARDS from the New Mexico Advertising Federation and 14 awards from the Public Relations Society of America, and has captured both regional and national awards for public service campaigns and television production. In 1991, we received the Outstanding Media Coverage Award from one of our clients, Reynolds Aluminum Recycling, in competition with 13 other public relations agencies throughout the nation. Also, we have been honored to be a semi-finalist for three years (2007, 2008, 2009) in the Samaritan Counseling Center New Mexico Ethics in Business Awards competition.
Cooney Productions, a subsidiary of Cooney, Watson & Associates, Inc., has achieved a solid track record of award-winning videos and TV documentaries focusing on issues ranging from the environment to education, health and social issues. These programs have raised public awareness on topics of broad, regional concern. Many have also impacted public policy.
In addition to appearing on statewide network and Public Broadcasting Service affiliates, most of the company’s programs have been dubbed hundreds of times, and several are in national syndication. Much of the work has been spun off into training and public education videos, as well as public service announcements. Copies may also be found in libraries, schools and video stores throughout the Southwest.
Our TV special "New Mexico's State of Mind" won first place in a national competition for mental health public awareness television (National Association of Mental Health Public Information Officers) in 1994. In 1999, Cooney Productions was invited to Los Angeles for the presentation of the national PRISM awards. Two productions were honored: "La Jornada Del Muerto" a one-hour program exploring the flow of drugs from Mexico up the Camino Real on the 400th anniversary of colonization; and "ALL ABOARD: Stop, Look and Listen," a television special focusing on substance abuse prevention among teenagers in Los Alamos County, the Jicarilla Apache Reservation and the Chama Valley.
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