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In-Housing Trend: What PR Agencies and Marketing Firms can Learn from Law Firms

Sword and the Script

In other words, corporate communications is adding headcount and work that used to go to outside PR firms is being kept inside. It found as the Wall Street Journal reported , “Advertisers with in-house agencies increased to 64% of the survey’s respondents from 42% a decade ago, according to the study.” (By

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3 former PR pros who made mid-career shifts and lived to talk about it

Communications Conversations

“I’m done with agency life. You could replace “agency life” with “corporate life” and insert a whole other sub-set of people, too. Kelly Groehler, Tim Westermeyer and Betsy Andersen all traded in their corporate and agency PR careers for work in another field.

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Paying for the destruction of public relations

PR Conversations

In 2001, a British installation artist, Michael Landy, won a commission for his work, Break Down, that involved the destruction of all his possessions as a reaction to the consumerist society. Online Owned media becomes the easy to control option – although who really seeks out a digital magazine or corporate video?

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Corporate Communications is Taking More PR Work In-House, finds Survey; Media Relations Gets Even Harder

Sword and the Script

Corporate communications departments are taking more work in-house. It’s a trend that mirrors similar patterns seen broadly in the marketing for the last several years, where CMOs have slashed agencies in favor of in-house teams. Reasons for Hiring or Firing an Outside Agency. click on images for higher resolution graphic).

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Remembering D. Parke Gibson, a Passionate Advocate for Race Relations and Public Relations

PRSay

Says Terrie Williams, president, the Terrie Williams Agency in New York: “D. Williams, a 2001 recipient of the D. The corporations were in the process of discovering the fact that the purchasing power of African-Americans was just tremendous. Parke was very generous in sharing information through his newsletters.

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A Brand Is a Business Risk to be Understood and Managed; Off Script No. 40: Brianna Carroll Boyle

Sword and the Script

3) You’ve worked both on the agency and the client side in PR. When I got out of school in 2001, for instance, few of my clients cared about mentions in online outlets. Organizations need to carefully craft and manage their brand and reputation and understand the impact of corporate reputation to their bottom line.

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Survey: Most PR Pros Say that Media Relations is Getting Harder – Here’s What You Can Do About It

Deirdre Breakenridge

The days of objectivity are gone and the days of combative, aggressive, argumentative ‘in your face’ journalism has taken its place.”. Ned launched “ Job of the Week ” (JOTW) email newsletter in 2001 as a free resource for PR and communications professionals looking for work. It’s harder to know who is [the] media and who isn’t.

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