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Refreshing PR Conversations Redux

PR Conversations

Five long years, and after nearly 600 PR Conversation posts , we’ve refreshed the look and feel, but continue to offer a platform for informed discussion, where a wide variety of voices can converse about public relations in a global-local context. PR Axis – features posts and case studies relating to planning, practice and evaluation.

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Constructing the Organizational Narrative: PR definition in the making

PR Conversations

Ira Basen’s 2007 six-part, award-winning CBC Radio Show, Spin Cycles: the spin, the spinners and the spun , proved to be highly influential for me. Often it is only during an economic downturn or a crisis that the value of a consistent and honest organizational narrative is realized fully. A bit of the back story.

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How to Get On in New Communications: Be Nice

ZudePR

That means my best crisis comms advice and experience can’t be fully disclosed as some of it has helped clients avoid a crisis and therefore talking too much about it risks actually bringing it out into greater prominence!” For me, as a local government employee, there are clear political boundaries.

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Future of local news report is a grim read

Stephen Waddington

Social media has replaced local news in communities across the UK. It is weakening community engagement and participation in local democracy. The collapse of local news is a crisis that has played out in plain sight over the past two decades. Local news has faced an assault on two fronts. Rumours are commonplace.

Local 112
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Future of local news report is a grim read

Wadds Inc.

Social media has replaced local news in communities across the UK. It is weakening community engagement and participation in local democracy. The collapse of local news is a crisis that has played out in plain sight over the past two decades. Local news has faced an assault on two fronts. Rumours are commonplace.

Local 59
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Assessing Ottawa Public Health’s ongoing response to the endoscopies infection scare

PR Conversations

In a hastily organized media conference on Saturday, October 15, 2011, the City of Ottawa’s chief medical officer of health, Dr. Isra Levy, announced that a local, privately owned “non-hospital” medical clinic failed to follow proper infection control measures, resulting in the potential exposure of 6,800 patients to Hepatitis and HIV.