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The Call was Perfect! The PR pitch, Even Better!!

Flack's Revenge

We’ve all done things we thought were great but were not well received, or where reality crashed the perfection party: The golf putt that almost went in The drunken wedding toast that seemed funny at the time The baseball pitch that was for sure a strike, until the ump ruled “ball!” And what about PR pitches?

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Join #PRStudChat on March 22nd for a Chat on How to Build Relationships Through Content

Deirdre Breakenridge

Content is also the starting point in building relationships with your different publics, whether they are your customers, influencers, journalists, analysts, or other stakeholders. She continues to cheer on her “new team” at NRPR and is a graduate of San Jose State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Public Relations.

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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

It seemed like any ordinary day in August of 2002. I was filled with job opportunities every week and would occasionally feature a job seeker in a section of the newsletter called the One Paragraph Pitch (OPP). I didn’t know Ned, but I pitched an OPP and he ran it. I rode the WMATA bus down Wisconsin Avenue. I was elated.

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Meeting CIPR President candidate Mandy Pearse

Stephen Waddington

I valued Mandy’s counsel on CIPR Governance issues and engagement with public sector communications communities during my time as President in 2014. She sits on the CIPR Board, has been a Council member for five years and volunteered for ten, most recently as Chair of the Local Public Service and Policy committees.

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Ivy Le’s Good Pitch Lands Ink in The Atlanta Journal Constitution

Bad Pitch Blog

We asked for good pitches and you listened. Since 2002, GRA has evaluated the commercial potential of more than 250 inventions or discoveries at universities and awarded grants to the most promising to further develop the invention or discovery. We’ll then hold a round of voting so you can decide which pitch is best.

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Adapting Strategies for Effective Storytelling in the Social Media Era

PRSay

With the tremendous growth of social media in recent years, the PR landscape is continuously evolving and causing public relations professionals to adapt to the 24/7/365 news cycle we now work in as well as the instant, viral nature in which news breaks and spreads.

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Entertainment & Sports Section New Member Spotlight

PRSay

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. That’s probably our biggest thing in certainly public relations, and corporate communications as well. Whether it’s to tweak your pitch.

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