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PRSA Introduces Innovative Program to Guide Journalists Transitioning Into PR and Communications

PRSay

Through the years, the PR and comms fields have been attractive landing spots for journalists with their writing and storytelling skills and media prowess. Journalists have excellent communications skills, such as writing and the ability to speak clearly and concisely. Many of the most successful PR executives were former journalists.

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Public Relations Review

PR for Anyone

Did you invent a new product, write a book, or win an award? Instead, when I heard camouflage was a new fashion trend for women, I took the camo Sock-It that was originally designed for men and coupled it with a hot pink Strap-It and created a “new” combination that appeared to be a new product launch. Right” is the important word.

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Newsjacking with David Meerman Scott

PR for Anyone

You may consider writing blogs that are relevant to worldwide happenings so that more people can find you online, or you can use social media platforms like Twitter. If you know that particular reporters are right in your wheelhouse, and they're writing about the thing that you are an expert in, you can tag that reporter on Twitter.

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The Human Touch

Prakkypedia

Don’t overlook the people that work in your organisation: they could be the key to your next magazine piece, newspaper profile or 30-minute radio conversation. They’re the longer-form radio chat shows, the magazines containing feature articles, the Sunday newspapers with double-page spreads.

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What PR Professionals Can Learn from Being Reporters First

Barokas

Before I discovered PR, I was dead set on becoming a fashion journalist. As a reporter, I was often tasked with writing 1,500 words on a nonsense subject. If you can write that much on why army green complements horizontal stripes, you can spin a story out of anything. You learn to how to write for an audience.

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Hola Felipe, Hola European Bulgaria.

Maxim Behar

First - my cousin, the legend in Bulgarian international journalism, Joseph Davidov, the man who made me passionate about this wonderful profession - to write, to enjoy every word or punctuation mark and to do my best to combine them into a clear and useful message - lived and worked there, and still does successfully.

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Meet the Media: John Irwin, Reporter at Automotive News

Bianchi Biz Blog

The writing had been on the wall for years, but it was still a shock to people in the industry because Oshawa is where the Canadian automotive industry was born. All great stories make clear why whatever you’re writing about matters to the audience. Before rejoining AN in the U.S.,