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Advice From a 94-Year-Old Veteran of the Military and Public Affairs

PRSay

Air Force, where he spent most of his career in public affairs. Then, after his liberation from the Stalag Luft I prisoner of war camp, he spent 41 years in public affairs. Perdue, through speaking engagements, media stories and storytelling on his website, www.b17chief.com. Perdue, is retired from the U.S.

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Insights Into the Role of Communicators at the U.S. Department of Defense

PRSay

Commissioned at the school Commandant’s request, these groups aimed to better understand any potential training gaps between the MCF course and real-world fleet and field expectations and requirements at duty stations worldwide. As with civilian PR, social media has assumed a dominant role in military public affairs.

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Code of PR Ethics: The Gray Area of Communicating a Point of View

Sword and the Script

Alongside a question about PR’s view of media bias , we asked the following: Do communications professionals – including PR, public affairs and spokespeople – present accurate and truthful information? Depends on their training. We dug into this in the 2020 JOTW Communications Survey this year. Like mama always said.

Ethics 101
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Going Beyond Media Relations: Other Services Solo PR Pros Can Offer

Solo PR Pro

Many different services fall under the umbrella of strategic communication — or public relations: media relations, community relations, internal communications, crisis communications, public affairs, content creation and marketing, social media — the list goes on. Social and PR go hand in hand.

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Is AI a threat or benefit to marketers and communicators? 2 PR pros weigh in

Landis PR

Solid storytelling, writing and editing skills are still very much in demand. If you’re more advanced in your career and training a new hire, you would never ask them to draft a release and send it on their own, right?” AI tools can’t handle the nuance that comes with providing sound strategic counsel. Linda explained.

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How to use virtual reality for public relations

Stuart Bruce

One of the potential uses of VR for PR is storytelling to put stakeholders inside a brand or corporate story. You can get an idea of what storytelling for PR might be like by looking at how VR is already being used for journalism such as the New York Times virtual reality app. Amnesty used VR to increase donations.

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#20: Building the bridge between infrastructure and data-driven media intelligence

NewsWhip

Brett: So, I guess is that, when we chatted before, I mean, that’s really the definition of a data-driven public affairs agency, correct? This is where you have an industry that may not be forefront every day, but has a huge public affairs consequence that needs to be evaluated through our geopolitical risk framework.

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