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Spotlight on a Solo PR Pro: Meet Doug Levy

Solo PR Pro

He was a frequent contributor to All Things Considered and Morning Edition and ended up as an intern in NPR’s Washington Bureau a year later, gaining extensive industry experience and honing his writing skills. After college, Doug was a typical journalism nomad, working in newsrooms in Chicago, New York and Washington, D.C.

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After a Recent Three-Way Tie Up, Onclusive Acquires Critical Mention

Sword and the Script

One of the assignments was a peer-reviewed journal article that made the case against merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions. Of course, b-school being b-school we debated the merits of that journal article in class. million over five venture rounds since 2004. I didn’t think it was unethical, just capitalism.

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10 Tips to Become More Likeable

Cision

. “Talking about ourselves—whether in a personal conversation or through social media sites like Facebook and Twitter—triggers the same sensation of pleasure in the brain as food or money” – Robert Lee Holz, “Science Reveals Why We Brag So Much,” Wall Street Journal, 2012. What do you think of me ?”

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The four Ps of public relations leadership

PR Conversations

It also means that public relations professionals have to operate everywhere within the organisation , looking at structures, processes, physical premises, ways of working—everything—because these are where principles are really lived and this is where the organisation or brand narrative is really written, not by the keyboard of a brand journalist.

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

Communications Conversations

I’m also a consultant to Sprosty Network, and we’ve together worked over two years to build the brand for its RetailXelerator (RX) program (an innovation pipeline program for major corporations). Current role: Full-time faculty member at the University of Minnesota – Hubbard School of Journalism & Mass Communication.

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Research Shows Journalists Want More Multimedia from PR Pros

Beyond PR

In 2004, Jon Forsythe was one of just a handful of Washington Post journalists who were given a video camera and told to go report on the news. I can write three articles in the amount of time I can shoot a video.”. Technology is so advanced that reporters can shoot and edit a short 90-second video in 15 or 30 minutes,” he says.

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Boris Johnson and what brands can learn from him

Mark My Words

I for one am not persuaded by the shambolic, blonde and much-loved “buffoon” with a relentlessly cheerful brand of racism and homophobia. Is he really the best ambassador for ‘Brand Britain’? 2004: Writes The Spectator that Liverpudlian fans were drunk and therefore partially responsible for the Hillsborough disaster.

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