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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

That particular company grew a reputation for manufacturing controversy. In the long run, people will see through it and PR will have failed at its mandate as keeper of the organizational reputation. Frank Strong is the founder and president of Sword and the Script Media , LLC, a veteran-owned PR and marketing agency based in Atlanta.

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How the APR Changed My Future

PRSay

I needed the framework of a third-party endorsement from a known commodity — with infinite reach, a solid reputation and a well-articulated Code of Ethics. Working for a national telecommunications firm in Atlanta, I lost a seismic bump up the corporate ladder. She earned her credential in 2001. A setback at work.

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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

Those can count the loss of trust among customers, a hit for the brand, company reputation, and potentially, revenue. 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. This also brings indirect costs.

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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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A critical review of Excellence Theory in an era of digital communication

Stephen Waddington

The first phase of study that led to the Excellence Theory consisted of quantitative, survey-based research of more than 300 organisations in Canada, UK and US, including a cross section of corporations, non-profit organisations and government agencies. Figure 1: How messages travel in networks regardless of traditional boundaries.