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What Marketers Can Learn from the 2016 PRSA Health Academy Conference

MaccaPR

According to the 2016 Trust Barometer published by agency Edelman Health, the general public’s trust in healthcare in the U.S. Leveraging publishers (bloggers, freelance medical writers) to write or disseminate content can help companies introduce public health campaigns and engage target audiences with your messages.

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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. Deploy rabid, media-trained surrogates, armed with unwavering narratives, to live TV and like-minded media outlets.

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Speed Matters in a Crisis Situation: Shark Week Case Study, Part 3

Shift Communications

The first step is to determine which client representative is prepared and available to address inquiring media – this will inform the reactive messaging direction and which media to target. Also, some reporters may only be on the hook (sorry) to write one Shark Week story. So whom should G.W.