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

Communications Conversations

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. They all knew that I had no interest in returning to a corporate role.

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Selfish Altruism: Ned Lundquist on Origins of the JOTW and an Appeal to Take the Annual Comms Survey

Sword and the Script

. >>> Do you work in communications, PR, public affairs, marcom, or a related field? Ned: I started JOTW when I found myself rather suddenly out of work in January of 2001. When I started my new job in April 2001 the network had grown to about 150 people.

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Putting PR on the Table for Minority Students

PRSay

After a lot of persistence, I was offered a PR internship with the San Francisco 49ers during their 2001 summer training camp. Baker eventually became president at the firm and was later elected president of the Philadelphia chapter of the Public Relations Society of America. This marked my beginning into the PR profession.