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

PRSay

Williams, a 2001 recipient of the D. For the November 1967 issue of the PR Journal , Gibson wrote an article titled “Race Relations: A Plan to Avoid Social Disasters” that outlined how senior management could better communicate with the African American community and, more important, why it was necessary. Counsel to senior management.

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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

When I got out of school in 2001, for instance, few of my clients cared about mentions in online outlets. While communicators require creativity and freedom, they also need to be managed and measured against specific objectives. One publication or blog you read regularly is… (BCB) Wall Street Journal CMO Today.

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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. Respondents cited reporter turnover, veteran reporters being replaced with junior ones, and “in-your-face-journalism” as contributing causes.

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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. Fifteen years later, as Davis has noted, promotional practice has become ubiquitous. Money can’t buy respect.

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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). Current role: Full-time faculty member at the University of Minnesota – Hubbard School of Journalism & Mass Communication. What was your last PR job?

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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 Similarly, and though we don’t use the terminology, big businesses hire panels of marketing agencies too – PR, creative, SEO, social, digital, advertising.

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The Essential Guide to Mass Communication: History, Methods, Ethics, and the Future

Masters in Communications

Today, printed media includes not only newspapers but magazines, professional publications, academic journals, comic books, and graphic novels (photographic and illustrated communication is also printed media), even local newsletters put through doors about upcoming events is printed media. Op-eds have passed investigative journalism.

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