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

Sword and the Script

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 So, what does this in-housing trend mean for PR agencies? Big PR agencies do the same thing. The In-House Effects on Law Firms. Sound familiar?

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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. “At that time, there were very, very few African Americans operating their own business in communications.”. Parke Gibson forever changed the face of public relations; not simply its appearance, but its voice and vision.”.

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

Sword and the Script

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. Ned launched “ Job of the Week ” (JOTW) email newsletter in 2001 as a free resource for PR and communications professionals looking for work. 5) planning and strategy (37%).

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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. One publication or blog you read regularly is… (BCB) Wall Street Journal CMO Today. The 24-hour news cycle has changed the PR game and greatly upped the stakes.

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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. But, these three people did.

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Masters in Marketing Interview: Paul Furiga, WordWrite Communications

Mindful Marketing

We caught up with Paul to talk PR, journalism and branding – oh, and to find out what story crafting is. Several of our team members have experience in journalism and so we come at the idea of telling stories from the perspective of having done so in a very public way, thousands and thousands of times.