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Today, we say goodbye to HARO [PR Tech Sum 52]

Sword and the Script

Top stories in today’s summary of PR news: Cision shutters the HARO brand; Agility adds “Intelligent Insights”; PR tech company replaces employees with AI On the first Tuesday of every month, I sort through all the news I can find on PR technology or comms tech and present it in a summary post like this one. Measurement templates.

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5 “Founding Fathers” Of PR

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Lee was a leader in media relations. Ivy Ledbetter Lee (1877-1934) is credited with refining the art of media relations, but his most celebrated engagement was a train wreck – literally. As head of corporate communications for oil behemoth Mobil, Schmertz was the most powerful man in PR in the 1970s.

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Get a Big Picture of the PR Landscape with these Notes from 10 Industry Surveys

Sword and the Script

Earned media still the most credible source of info Most people find independent journalism and earned media to be the most credible source of information. Blogs, including independent and corporate blogs, can be credible. An annual survey by PRWeek found the median public relations salary in the U.S.

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Crisis Management Lessons From Boeing’s 737 Max Disasters

PRSay

Gordon Johndroe , vice president of global media relations and public affairs for the Chicago-based aircraft manufacturer, spoke to members of PRSA’s Corporate Communications Section in the Nov. It certainly doesn’t reflect a majority of the 100,000-plus employees at the company. We need to plan for beyond 72 hours.

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What is PR? 141 PR and Comms Pros Explain What They Do for a Living

Sword and the Script

What is for sure is that a solid PR team is versatile and can expertly cover down on a broad number of functions: internal comms, external comms, executive comms, media relations, analyst relations, corporate social responsibility, thought leadership and marcom, and as I’ve long proposed, content marketing, among many others.

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Meet the Media: Mary Gannon, Editor-in-Chief of Fluid Power World & Senior Editor at Design World

Bianchi Biz Blog

I have been in journalism or PR for 25 years — I went to Boston University for journalism and upon graduation, I worked as a business reporter for a local daily newspaper on the outside of Cleveland. How long have you been in journalism and how did you get started? I loved it and I particularly loved the stories about manufacturing.

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3 Ways To Help Journalists And Help Yourself In The Process – Part 2

PR Insiders

At News & Experts, we’ve had great success providing the media with content that is written like a newspaper article. For a business consultant, an angle could be “How to Create a Corporate Culture that Attracts the Best Employees.” Give them what they need.

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