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What You Can Do With a Public Relations Degree

5W PR

PR specialists build relationships with journalists, bloggers, and influencers to secure media placements and handle crisis communication when necessary. Media relations manager Media relations managers focus on cultivating relationships with media outlets to ensure positive coverage for their organization or clients.

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What Clients Really Want From A PR Agency

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

What do clients really want from their PR agency ? Here’s what these top communications execs said they want and expect from an agency relationship. “I want my agency to offer things I didn’t know I needed.” “I want an agency that hates to lose,” is how he puts it. Unanticipated value.

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Where To Find Public Relations Entry-Level Jobs

Doctor Spin

Here’s a list of places where someone might find entry-level jobs in public relations: Public relations agencies. Government agencies. Local, state, and federal government entities often hire entry-level PR professionals to handle public relations and communications tasks. Marketing agencies.

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Five Steps to Manage Client-Agency Relationships

Landis PR

All relationships take effort, and that includes the one between client and communications agency. If both client and agency understand relationships, responsibilities and expectations, it’s usually smooth sailing. The goal is that no one from agency or client side ever has to wonder, “what’s going on this week/month/quarter.”

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Should Public Relations Change Its Name?

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

A few years ago I dropped in on a client’s booth at an industry conference, and the company CEO introduced me – the founder of his company’s public relations agency – as the “publicist.” It implies a kind of “smile-and-dial” media pitch person, or a celebrity’s press agent.

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5 “Founding Fathers” Of PR

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Lee was a leader in media relations. Ivy Ledbetter Lee (1877-1934) is credited with refining the art of media relations, but his most celebrated engagement was a train wreck – literally. He started the PR agency that still bears his name in 1952. Some things never change. Edelman elevates marketing PR.

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Transformational CSR: When a pro-bono client metamorphizes into a cultural change agent within an agency

Waxing UnLyrical

For most companies, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) means giving back to the surrounding community. For creative marketing agencies, CSR often takes the form of pro-bono services. Sometimes, that pro-bono relationship can help transform an agency’s culture. Guest Post by Lisa Holtorf and Dawn Buzynski.

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