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

PRSay

Parke Gibson Pioneer Award is PRSA’s highest individual honor presented to a PR professional who has contributed to increased awareness of public relations within multicultural communities and participated in promoting issues that meet the needs of these diverse communities. Williams, a 2001 recipient of the D. He was 49. “He

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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

So, I thought was interesting to see an experienced marketing and communications leader from the cybersecurity community, categorized the notion of brand under risk. When I got out of school in 2001, for instance, few of my clients cared about mentions in online outlets.

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New Survey Identifies the Hottest Trends in Corp Comm and PR; Announcing the 2018 JOTW Communications Survey

Sword and the Script

The survey was conducted by yours truly and in collaboration with Ned Lundquist, an IABC Fellow , and the community of communicators he’s built over the last 18 years or so. Ned is a retired senior naval officer who launched the “ Job of the Week ” (JOTW) email newsletter in 2001 as a free resource for PR pros looking for work.

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

Sword and the Script

Ned launched “ Job of the Week ” (JOTW) email newsletter in 2001 as a free resource for PR and communications professionals looking for work. You are welcome to use the data or slides, but like Creative Commons, please share and share alike, and including attribution to Ned’s JOTW and Sword and the Script Media.

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Our Industry, Your Answers: Breaking Down the 2018 JOTW Communications Survey

Waxing UnLyrical

Future survey topics to explore include additional probing on communications research and measurement as well as strategy and the effects of technology on corporate communications and PR – especially distinguishing between free tools and those which require additional buy-in or budget approval. Creative Commons CC0.

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

Communications Conversations

Both Kate and I have strong PR backgrounds, but the responsibility falls within her scope as Chief Creative Officer (obviously with a ton of my input and social chatter). But technically, I left my agency job to go back to grad school in 2001 (the week before Sept. What was the last date you worked in the PR field? Five years.

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

Sword and the Script

The legal community, and more specifically the in-house effect on law firms bear insight. Similarly, and though we don’t use the terminology, big businesses hire panels of marketing agencies too – PR, creative, SEO, social, digital, advertising. This year’s survey polled 223 communications and public relations (PR) professionals.

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