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Behind the Headlines With Howard Stutz

Cision

I oversaw corporate communications for Anchor Gaming – a publicly traded slot machine developer – before the company was sold to International Game Technology in 2001. The challenge is to communicate that gaming is a mainstream entertainment business that is responsible for 1.7 Also, know what has and hasn’t been published.

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How to be a PR Rainmaker

Solo PR Pro

PIE builds communities one person at a time, helping senior executives understand, connect, and collaborate. Since 2001, successful leaders have used PIE to tackle the world’s important challenges. He has appeared on the pages of Fast Company, Inc Magazine, Newsweek, Business Week and The Wall Street Journal and speaks widely.

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Putting PR on the Table for Minority Students

PRSay

After a lot of persistence, I was offered a PR internship with the San Francisco 49ers during their 2001 summer training camp. Like Thomas, I began my freshman year in 2007 at Midwestern State University already knowing that I wanted to major in Mass Communication. This marked my beginning into the PR profession.

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

Communications Conversations

Current role: Full-time faculty member at the University of Minnesota – Hubbard School of Journalism & Mass Communication. But technically, I left my agency job to go back to grad school in 2001 (the week before Sept. What was your last PR job? What was the last date you worked in the PR field?

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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 The legal community, and more specifically the in-house effect on law firms bear insight. So, what does this in-housing trend mean for PR agencies?

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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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