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In Memoriam: Joe S. Epley, APR, Fellow PRSA

PRSay

The full-service firm represented a variety of clients ranging from Fortune 100 companies to local nonprofits, many of them clients for more than two decades. he worked as a television news reporter and editor in Asheville and Charlotte before transitioning into a PR career. Epley founded Epley Associates, Inc., were lifelong.

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Helsinki, Finland – Growth Path Ahead

Landis PR

It is not advisable to have an employee of a communications firm present in the interview situation. YLE, the state-owned communications company, broadcasts on four television channels visible throughout the country. Finland’s largest commercial television channel is MTV3. This applies to the media also.

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What the Uvalde Shootings and Other Crises Reveal about Press Conferences

PRSay

DPS held the follow-up press conference where the director characterized the local police’s action as the “wrong” decision. The local District Attorney, Christina Busbee, issued a statement that they wouldn’t be issuing statements. Television images showed the sinking oil rig engulfed in flames and black smoke.

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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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Gen Z Trends: January + February 2023

5W PR

Binge Worthy TV Shows YOU season 3 – The third season of the American psychological thriller television series You was features the continuation of Joe Goldberg’s fraught relationship with Love, who is pregnant with his child in a new suburban home.

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Sellafield storyteller turns whistleblower: “toxic materials and toxic culture”

Stephen Waddington

I had spoken to employees who had trusted me with their experiences of mental health breakdown and then had to suck it up as human resources cherry-picked the case studies which painted the company in the best light. That is not to mention the 10,000 local people who are employed there today. I played open age rugby from age 15.

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How to Connect With Consumers Offline

5W PR

A business that gets involved in its local community achieves multiple objectives. Whether it’s sponsoring a local nonprofit event or offering up employee volunteers to work at a food drive or other event, there are multiple ways for a business to use its strength in numbers to make a difference. Make a Community Impact.