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Public Relations and COVID-19: Studies Surface Challenges, Changes and Optimism  

Sword and the Script

Public relations has wrestled with messaging during the COVID-19 pandemic, but studies also show it has improved business collaboration and internal communications The events of 9/11 changed air travel. About: Ragan surveyed 315 PR professionals across organizations including corporations, agencies, non-profits and government.

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2021 Solo PR Pro Premium Member Accomplishments

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The agency beat Atrium Health and another smaller comms firm to take top honors in the category for their work on a three-month campaign for Pat's Place Child Advocacy Center. When she started her business in the summer of 2001, she was pregnant, had just been laid off following the dot-com crash, and had no idea what the future would hold.

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Meltwater Quietly Goes IPO [PR Tech Sum]

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However, the exchange posted an announcement and YouTube video , which contained some interesting facts: Jørn Lyseggen founded Meltwater “in shack number 15 on Tjuvholmen, Oslo in 2001.”. The company gives agencies a way to manage (and pay for) clients serving as experts. The company serves “28,000 customers” around the world.

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Hobson’s choice, the latest on economic duress

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But the opposite conclusion was reached on similar circumstances in another construction case 12 years later in Carillion Construction Ltd v Felix (UK) Ltd [2001] BLR 1. This was the issue in Pakistan International Airline Corporation (Respondent) v Times Travel (UK) Ltd (Appellant).

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Entertainment & Sports Section New Member Spotlight

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Coming out of college I came across an opportunity as a communications intern at Tennis Canada. And it’s only been 15 years since our new owners purchased the organization in 2001, and that’s when it really turned the corner. Isabelle McLemore – Senior Director, Global Corporate Communications, UFC.

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The art of smart thinking in public relations

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When I ask my CIPR internal comms certificate groups who has a comms strategy or who has SMART objectives – why do so few hands go up? (To yes, you guessed it…… AVEs in countries where the large agencies think nobody will notice. We also need to prove that value of what we do and that means getting comfortable with data.

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Paying for the destruction of public relations

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In 2001, a British installation artist, Michael Landy, won a commission for his work, Break Down, that involved the destruction of all his possessions as a reaction to the consumerist society. That’s the output of over 2,500 leaders from business, government, international organizations, civil society, academia, media and the arts.