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The Death of the Press Release.

Maxim Behar

1906–2007 The one-time ubiquitous emblem of classic PR, the press release, has technically been dead for a while now. An admittedly arbitrary but still plausibly precise date pinpointing the press release’s death might be November 6, 2007 — the day when Facebook launched its then vastly obscure, and today vastly dominant, Facebook Pages.

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The bill we will all eventually pay.

Maxim Behar

On the one hand, the literally empty shops were filled for hours with brand new goods - ordinary and luxury, imported and local, but at prices ten times higher than the previously subsidized ones. I don't want to start with the local economic view from so long ago, though. It was a shock, even a two-way shock.

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Putting PR on the Table for Minority Students

PRSay

Like Thomas, I began my freshman year in 2007 at Midwestern State University already knowing that I wanted to major in Mass Communication. However, I noticed something concerning in my professors, internship supervisors and the professionals in our local organizations. Cambria’s PR Story. Where was everyone else in this industry?

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The Legendary Prince with a Spanish Passport and Bulgarian Heart.

Maxim Behar

Before that, we dined at a traditional and very old-fashioned restaurant, where both Kardam and Miriam melted with pleasure, ordering Shopska salads (traditional Bulgarian tomato, peppers, and cheese salat) and kebabcheta (local meat sausages) to their heart's content and enjoying the Nestinar (on fire) dances.

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Maxim Behar for Euronews: Bulgaria Needs a Strong Political Hand

Maxim Behar

What struck me much was that in all the debates, in all the television studios, people were talking over each other. 2007, January 1, when Bulgaria became a member of the European Union, before that 2004 NATO. Because there are local elections coming up, and it's unlike all the others we can talk about and joke and improvise.

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The Best Journalism Movies

Landis PR

All the President’s Men (1976) 1977 Academy Award Winner I was in grade school on summer break in 1973, which is when the Watergate hearings were televised. I was really excited when the movie “All the President’s Men” hit my local theater in 1976. Murrow, during the peak of his career during the early days of televised news.