Angela Poon is a Communications Consultant at Laura Murray Public Relations. A marketing and communications professional, copywriter, and former journalist, Angela knows the power of a great story. She has spent the last seven years honing her storytelling abilities, writing on, and promoting a wide range of topics.

Angela began her career as a reporter and photographer with the community newspaper the Langley Advance, covering local news, city hall, and arts + entertainment. Her intuitive understanding and deep knowledge of the media industry soon led her to the public relations field. First, as a publicist with a Vancouver-based PR firm, garnering significant coverage for high profiled clients, including UNICEF, Forest Products Association of Canada, Pacific National Exhibition (PNE), and Body Beautiful Canada, and later moving on to manage regional communications and media relations for Canadian Blood Services.

Angela’s comprehensive experience and superlative media contacts, from her experience as a journalist and publicist provides unique insight into finding and developing great stories, enabling clients to gain effective exposure with key audiences, and successfully achieving strategic results.