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Behind the Headlines With Ashley Simmons

Cision

Ashley Simmons, director of communications at the Telecommunications Industry Association, says you must first develop a plan for how you will achieve your goals. It made sense that I should be in the nation’s capital to study public affairs and obtain more real-world experience, so I moved to D.C. I’ve never looked back.

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Behind the Headlines With Matt Sutton

Cision

Given my background and our legislative successes, I feel like we are in a unique position to expand our public affairs practice. . You’ve worked with a number of public affairs organizations. My daily newspaper of choice is…The New York Times. What has been the proudest moment of your career? Be fearless.

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Back to the future of PR at FutureComm15

Stuart Bruce

The reality (as I see it and experience it) is that PR has always been more in the truth business than advertising has. Paul Holmes says that “public relations finds real stories and shares them. Advertising makes stories up and shares them.” It was just PR.

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Ethical Issues with Coalitions and Front Groups – Greg Bailey

Ethical Voices

I’m a former journalist turned public relations practitioner. I spent the first third of my career working for newspapers. In the newspaper business, I did have one, and I really thought I’d lose my job over it. The publisher of the newspaper wanted me to do one story that just crossed a line for me.

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#20: Building the bridge between infrastructure and data-driven media intelligence

NewsWhip

Brett: So, I guess is that, when we chatted before, I mean, that’s really the definition of a data-driven public affairs agency, correct? It’s something that’s pushing the industry forward and then boom, you went out and created it. Talking Points. Agency of the future | Jump to text. It’s an idea.

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Behind the Headlines With Kathy Jeavons

Cision

Kathy Jeavons, senior vice president of public affairs at Story Partners, a Washington, D.C. strategic public affairs firm, is no stranger to the constant change in PR. What do you hope to accomplish in your new role as senior vice president of public affairs at Story Partners?

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PR Rock Stars (of the future): 19 new college grads ready to take over the world

Communications Conversations

She is editor-in-chief of The Winonan , WSU’s campus newspaper; she is president of the WSU Public Relations Student Society of America chapter; and she is executive director of the WSU St. She has a strong background in advertising, public relations and marketing and is skilled at primary research (surveys and focus groups).

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