MIA Receives Golden Thinker Award

The Marble Institute of America (MIA) received the Golden Thinker Award for Extraordinary Achievement in Media Relations. The Golden Thinker, awarded each year by the North America Precis Syndicate, Inc. (NAPS), is given to organizations that have created the feature releases that have received the most pick-ups by America’s newspaper editors. This is the second Golden Thinker that the MIA has won in the last 5 years.

Traditionally, stories that NAPS releases are picked up by between 100 and 400 newspapers. MIA’s February 2012 story, New Survey Shows Nothing Beats Value, Beauty of Granite Countertops, was picked up by more than 2,800 newspapers from across the United States, with more than 50 percent of those papers being from top 50 markets.