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PR Has Evolved Since First ‘Public Relations Handbook’ in 1967, but Some Values Are Timeless

PRSay

There were newspapers, magazines, wire services, trade publications, TV and radio. Daily newspaper circulation in the United States has fallen from its height of 61.8 About 2,200 local print newspapers have closed since 2005, cutting the number of newspaper journalists by more than half between 2008 and 2020.

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Today, we say goodbye to HARO [PR Tech Sum 52]

Sword and the Script

The founding HARO was founded by Peter Shankman in 2008 as a Facebook group for journalists in need of sources. It was increasingly filled with queries from corporate bloggers with commercial interests rather than journalists with stories to complete on a deadline. The change will take effect on April 2, 2024.

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Behind the Headlines With Ted Meyer

Cision

In times of crisis, are you able to think on your feet? For the largest banks, the reputational damage from the financial crisis could take a generation to repair. Other parts of the industry were less impacted by the crisis, but always play a sensitive role at the hub of economic activity. What drew you to the PR industry?

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In-Housing Trend: What PR Agencies and Marketing Firms can Learn from Law Firms

Sword and the Script

In other words, corporate communications is adding headcount and work that used to go to outside PR firms is being kept inside. You have to keep in mind, big corporations can have hundreds of law firms on what they call a “panel.” I’d like to believe, PR agencies that specialized in crisis communications can identify here.

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PR: Less Elitist Than Ever

Maxim Behar

A tiny portion of PR is designed to serve corporations’ CEOs and senior management. Solving a PR crisis, managing reputation, or building and developing a corporate image, for example, when a merger between companies, especially in the financial sector, is another story.

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Maxim Behar: Better put yourself in others’ shoes and then judge

Maxim Behar

Twenty to twenty-five years ago, you turned on the TV and listened to something or opened the newspaper and read it, but you had no feedback and couldn't say if something wasn't true. Maxim: I'm not very sure this is crisis PR. Something that was done a few years ago and stayed under wraps suddenly can cause a severe political crisis.

Ethics 69
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2016: When PR Turned to the Dark Side

Flatiron Communications

2016 was the year when the currents that have slowly eroded the tenuous relationship between journalists and PR pros coalesced to create an existential crisis that may not be easily remedied. I mean did it even matter that nearly every newspaper in the country published full-throated condemnations of Mr. Trump?