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Remembering D. Parke Gibson, a Passionate Advocate for Race Relations and Public Relations

PRSay

Parke Gibson Pioneer Award is PRSA’s highest individual honor presented to a PR professional who has contributed to increased awareness of public relations within multicultural communities and participated in promoting issues that meet the needs of these diverse communities. Williams, a 2001 recipient of the D.

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Survey: Most PR Pros Say that Media Relations is Getting Harder – Here’s What You Can Do About It

Deirdre Breakenridge

The days of objectivity are gone and the days of combative, aggressive, argumentative ‘in your face’ journalism has taken its place.”. This is PR at its finest – relations with a public community. In other words, well-executed content marketing helps you develop an additional platform to communicate with reporters.

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In-Housing Trend: What PR Agencies and Marketing Firms can Learn from Law Firms

Sword and the Script

It found as the Wall Street Journal reported , “Advertisers with in-house agencies increased to 64% of the survey’s respondents from 42% a decade ago, according to the study.” (By So, what does this in-housing trend mean for PR agencies? The legal community, and more specifically the in-house effect on law firms bear insight.

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Corporate Communications is Taking More PR Work In-House, finds Survey; Media Relations Gets Even Harder

Sword and the Script

Corporate communications departments are taking more work in-house. It’s a trend that mirrors similar patterns seen broadly in the marketing for the last several years, where CMOs have slashed agencies in favor of in-house teams. Reasons for Hiring or Firing an Outside Agency. click on images for higher resolution graphic).

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A Brand Is a Business Risk to be Understood and Managed; Off Script No. 40: Brianna Carroll Boyle

Sword and the Script

So, I thought was interesting to see an experienced marketing and communications leader from the cybersecurity community, categorized the notion of brand under risk. 3) You’ve worked both on the agency and the client side in PR. One publication or blog you read regularly is… (BCB) Wall Street Journal CMO Today.

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3 former PR pros who made mid-career shifts and lived to talk about it

Communications Conversations

“I’m done with agency life. You could replace “agency life” with “corporate life” and insert a whole other sub-set of people, too. Kelly Groehler, Tim Westermeyer and Betsy Andersen all traded in their corporate and agency PR careers for work in another field. But, these three people did.

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Masters in Marketing Interview: Paul Furiga, WordWrite Communications

Mindful Marketing

Paul is active in the community, serving as vice chair of the River City Brass, on the boards of Fragasso Financial Advisors, The Rivers Club and the IABC Pittsburgh Chapter. We caught up with Paul to talk PR, journalism and branding – oh, and to find out what story crafting is. How did that prepare you for your role as CEO?