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

PRSay

Traditional media skills such as radio broadcasting and television production are still vital. The DoD continues to manage its own television and radio service, American Forces Network, to communicate with service members and their families — even as it also rolls out on-demand streaming of video and radio.

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US Navy In Crisis PR Mode: A Textbook Example

The Stalwart Blog

Forgive me if I boast about the US Navy Public Affairs community for a moment. Questions about how these completely avoidable collisions occurred received “A” Block status on national television newscasts. McCain’s Aegis systems caused the ships to crash into merchant vessels. McCain events, and you’ll see.

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Crisis Management Lessons From Boeing’s 737 Max Disasters

PRSay

According to reports, an automated flight-control system had sent the airplanes into nosedives. 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. We were playing catchup.

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The most important ethics priority for healthcare communicators – Kena Lewis

Ethical Voices

She is the Senior Director of Public Affairs and Media Relations at Orlando Health. I started in cable television. I can’t respond to that because according to HIPAA, that person, that name is not in our system and is not in our system.” The ethical challenges of online identity.

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An “Interview” with ChatGPT: What is Public Relations? How Has PR Changed? Will Artificial Intelligence Replace Comms Pros?

Sword and the Script

We interviewed ChatGPT about public relations and while it does well with high-level questions, it becomes repetitive when those questions were more nuanced; the system says it is “unlikely” that it “or any other AI system will fully replace public relations (PR) professionals”.

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Maxim Behar in Kamen Vodenicharov's show "The Evening of." on 7/8 TV

Maxim Behar

I think politics and public affairs should be done by people who can answer any question. Get busy doing public outreach. A few years ago, I was at the Davos Forum, and I was interviewed by an American television station, CNBC, and they asked me a question: 'What do you expect from the Davos Forum?' Host: And why not?

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Lake Forest Chamber of Commerce Livecast talking Crisis PR

The Stalwart Blog

He has a PR security systems business down in San Diego. Steve Smith: Just as an opener, just tell us a little bit about PR security systems and how you got into this line of work. I started actually as a Navy officer, turned Navy public affairs officer. There are systems you can put in place. Dave Oates: Sure.

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