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Media Interview Skills: Why Silence Is Not Always Golden

Polaris

And a poorly handled print or broadcast interview could turn a relatively benign issue into a full-blown crisis. Another woman, Andrea Constand, filed a lawsuit against Cosby in 2004. Moving forward, there’s not much he can do except lie low and wait for an opportunity to rebuild his reputation. Her revelations were nothing new.

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Can we press release that? 15 stories about the public relations industry (you won’t believe #10)

Stephen Waddington

The New York Times printed the article in full. Whether that will contribute to the reputation or sales for your organisation is another thing entirely. The print edition went monthly in 2013, and bi-monthly in 2016. Publicists and agencies focused solely on the media exaggerate the issue. The original moniker has stuck.

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8 Ways to Make Your Press Release More Effective

Cision

According to a survey of the releases distributed by (a certain PR firm) on one day: 78% of public relations people spend extra money to dress up their releases with printed letterheads and color…the 78% broke down into 34% on a simple black letterhead, 16% on a one-color letterhead, and 28% on a letterhead with two or more colors.

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

Communications Conversations

Alice Riot is a line of professional women’s garments that serve as the canvases for limited-edition prints of original works by female artists. I miss the issues and reputation management work, especially on corporate responsibility issues. I did go back to work at Fleishman Hillard for a summer while in grad school (2004).

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Exposing PR’s weaknesses

PR Conversations

We see this almost everywhere that PR is discussed online (and often in print too). Criticism by Gawker (among others) led to a ‘pseudo’ apology (as defined by Lazare 2004 ). Bloggers and commentators with opinions – often asserted with no underpinning to justify the position taken.