COMS Grad wins MLB Public Relations award
Matt Chisholm, Vice President of Media Relations for the San Francisco Giants, has been named the recipient of the 2025 Robert O. Fishel Award for Public Relations Excellence, Major League Baseball announced today during the Baseball Winter Meetings.
The Robert O. Fishel Award, named after the longtime baseball executive, goes to the “active, non-uniformed representative of Major League Baseball whose ethics, character, dedication, service, professionalism and humanitarianism best represent the standards propounded by Robert O. Fishel.” An executive with the Cleveland Indians, the St. Louis Browns, the New York Yankees and the American League Office, Fishel was the inaugural winner of the Award in 1981.
Chisholm recently completed his 21st full-time season in Major League Baseball, including his 18th overall with the Giants. Before joining the Giants, he spent just over three years in the media relations department of the Colorado Rockies from 2005-2008. He also served as an intern for the Giants in 2004. Before his start in Major League Baseball, Chisholm worked for the Sonoma County Crushers in 2002, and he spent a year in Sonoma State’s Sports Information Department in 2003 after graduating from SSU the year before with a degree in Communications. Chisholm and his wife, Liz, have two children, Luke and Charlotte.