Joining PRWeek for a summer editorial internship is MacAdam Smith - or just Adam, as we call him. He’ll be helping out with PRWeekus.com, and other tasks.

Adam is a creative writing graduate student at the City College of New York with a strong interest in learning the media business.  He previously worked in production for Abrams Books and taught a workshop on creative expression for underprivileged young adults through St. Johns in the Village.

Today our newsroom was focused completely on one thing around 10:30 this morning: The new monthly print edition of PRWeek. Word got out early that our copies were floating around a floor above where circulation sits, and immediately reporters and editors wanted to know one thing - “Where’s my copy?”

The whole staff has spent an incredible amount of time and energy putting together this more than 50-page, dense magazine that brings with it some of the biggest names in the industry, and certainly some of its most well-spoken.

While our publisher, Julia, and executive editor, Erica, along with senior editor, Gideon, and the art and advertising departments have been wholly focused on this new offering, here at the news desk, I was absorbed with our new online weekly edition, along with the daily Breakfast Briefing newsletter. Creating three new products in one month has kept the entire staff humming along.

As you head into the slower summer months, I hope you’ll take a pause and check out some of these new offerings - as well as provide us with feedback on them as we adjust to it all.

Drops on Monday. Be sure to check it out.

On May 11, our main feature will be the Leadership Special, an article profiling industry professionals who are showing outstanding examples of leadership. This can be within their agency/company, as an industry thought leader, or even beyond the PR industry. If you have someone you’d like to suggest, please send an e-mail to features@prweek.com.

Tonight is the night for our 10th edition of the PRWeek Awards. If you will be with us, or you just want to follow along - the hashtag for tonight will be #PRWeekAwards - you can already read about people gearing up for the night here.

We have finally run through most of our op-ed queue, and are looking for new thought leadership pieces. If you had previously sent one that did not run (and it is evergreen), send again. If you have had an idea banging around in the back of your head, send it on.

PRWeek is now accepting agency financial information for its 2009 Agency Business Report, including rankings. The rankings will appear in the April 27 issue of PRWeek. All agencies are encouraged to submit information. This year’s process has been moved entirely online. Submissions must be received by February 27, 2009 at 6 pm EST. To submit your information, click here.

We’re getting ready for our Agency Business Report 2009, which will publish in the April 27 issue. This year, we’re bringing the process completely online. Look for announcements on our Web site, magazine, and blogs in the next week or so on how to submit your agency’s rankings form.

Jaimy Lee, our New York-based healthcare reporter, will now be covering the public affairs beat. As is clearly the case these days, those two topics are often intertwined. She will cover both industries. She can be reached at jaimy dot lee @prweek.com

We’ve posted PRWeek’s editorial calendar for 2009. Please keep in mind that unlike PRWeek’s news content, features- the topics for which are found on the ed cal- are planned at least two months in advance. So please think of PRWeek’s features section as a long-lead magazine.

Also, as regular readers of the magazine know already, nearly all of PRWeek’s features are based on some type of client case study. It was a major refocus for the magazine when we redesigned in January 2006, so please, if you are going to pitch for an upcoming feature, make it a detailed pitch. Simply writing, “I noticed you have a consumer feature and would like to suggest my agency, XYZ PR as a source,” is not helpful and will not get a response. Instead, include a short description of some the trends you’re noticing in a particular sector, and include some of the work you’re doing on behalf of clients, but only ones that are willing to share their story with PRWeek. Please e-mail features@prweek.com with any questions.

The only exception to the long-lead and client case study rule is the agency business section, which is assigned about three weeks ahead of the publish date and focuses exclusively on issues happening within PR firms. To pitch that section, please e-mail Tonya.Garcia@prweek.com.

You can download the 2009 editorial calendar here.