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Spotlight on a Solo PR Pro: Meet Doug Levy

Solo PR Pro

He was a frequent contributor to All Things Considered and Morning Edition and ended up as an intern in NPR’s Washington Bureau a year later, gaining extensive industry experience and honing his writing skills. After college, Doug was a typical journalism nomad, working in newsrooms in Chicago, New York and Washington, D.C.

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Spotlight on a Solo PR Pro: Meet Ebony Vaz

Solo PR Pro

She started the company in 2004 as a side hustle before taking it full time five years ago. Through Above Promotions, Ebony is able to combine her interests and has one key goal in mind: to be a leader in the market for implementing science and technology into storytelling and customer experiences. From engineer to PR pro.

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Flawed Dot Connecting from Washington Post Correlates Rise of PR to the Fall of Journalism

Ishmael's Corner

Since Craigslist eviscerated the classified ads business in newspapers, journalists have been writing the “poor me” story. The best non-fiction storytelling on the planet comes from journalists. With that said, I understand why journalists feel compelled to write these “poor me” stories.

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Exposing PR’s weaknesses

PR Conversations

Indeed, I’m concerned that where PR practitioners have rebranded themselves as Communicators working in Communication(s) functions, they generally mean they like to write (or maybe, only maybe, that they are good at this). Others now describe themselves as storytellers, content curators or narrators. Do they understand semiotics?

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Research Shows Journalists Want More Multimedia from PR Pros

Beyond PR

In 2004, Jon Forsythe was one of just a handful of Washington Post journalists who were given a video camera and told to go report on the news. Whether it’s video, photos or interactive graphics, more visual storytelling can give people deeper insights into a subject. Use Multimedia to Tell a Better Story.