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Meltwater Quietly Goes IPO [PR Tech Sum]

Sword and the Script

Meltwater quietly goes public. Meltwater went public on a Swedish stock exchange last month (Euronext Growth Oslo: MWTR ). Going public gives us access to its historical financials, which I’ve long wondered about. The event for the company’s public debut was held virtually, which was par for the course in 2020.

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2021 Solo PR Pro Premium Member Accomplishments

Solo PR Pro

Jodi Echakowitz of Boulevard Public Relations celebrated 20 years in business in July! When she started her business in the summer of 2001, she was pregnant, had just been laid off following the dot-com crash, and had no idea what the future would hold. Kami Watson Huyse appeared on Good Morning America on Oct.

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Behind the Headlines With Howard Stutz

Cision

In this interview, Howard discusses the challenges facing casino gaming companies, how to deliver an effective message and how to adapt to the immediacy of the media. I oversaw corporate communications for Anchor Gaming – a publicly traded slot machine developer – before the company was sold to International Game Technology in 2001.

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Maxim Behar: Novinite.com is a One-of-a-kind Media Phenomenon

Maxim Behar

What are your memories of March 12, 2001, your launch day? In 1999, I gave an interview for a then startup online edition and said that print media are apparently becoming history and I don’t believe they would last for another twenty years. How has it changed from 2001 onwards? Read the interview at Novinite.com

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Entertainment & Sports Section New Member Spotlight

PRSay

Coming out of college I came across an opportunity as a communications intern at Tennis Canada. I was able to jump in there with the media relations and publication relations teams at a time the country was on fire with Olympic pride and the Olympic movement was more popular than ever. It went from being a spectacle to being a sport.

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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

It gained traction to the extent it wound up capturing the attention of very publication that had ignored my pitch in the first place…and earned coverage anyway. This is PR at its finest – relations with a public community. The 2019 JOTW Communications Survey polled 223 communications and public relations (PR) professionals.

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Conducting historical interviews in a transparent age

PR Conversations

This is a critical aspect of scholarship, but is commonly lacking in practice, particularly within public relations where crowd-sourcing exercises and publicity-oriented surveys may be viewed unproblematically. The historical period in my investigation is 1995-2015, which was a time of notable growth in public relations.