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10 Networking Events for PR Professionals

5W PR

Health Academy Conference: This event addresses PR and communication professionals in the healthcare industry, offering networking event opportunities and targeted programming. International Journalism Festival The International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy, is Europe’s largest annual media event.

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Spotlight on a Solo PR Pro: Meet Doug Levy

Solo PR Pro

After college, Doug was a typical journalism nomad, working in newsrooms in Chicago, New York and Washington, D.C. After spending most of the 1990s covering healthcare for USA Today, the newspaper transferred him to San Francisco to cover technology. From journalist to PR pro. In 1997, when USA Today moved him from D.C.

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Spotlight on a Solo PR Pro: Meet Stu Opperman, APR

Solo PR Pro

He developed a love of sports and print media at a young age, and set off to the University of Florida to pursue a degree in journalism. They didn’t have a lot of PR experience, but knew it could be a revenue center for the agency, and they entrusted me to handle that,” he says. In fact, he hadn’t even intended on working in PR.

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How Can Old School Strategies Counter Disinformation? – Ellen Crane

Ethical Voices

She provides strategic public relations planning and execution to both companies and marketing and PR agencies. She specializes in a wide variety of industries, including healthcare, legal, real estate, education and nonprofits. And then after that, I really did a variety for the first part of my career of corporate and agency.

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Future of PR and social media for International Air Transport Association crisis communications conference

Stuart Bruce

Stuart Bruce speaking at the IATA Crisis Communications in the Social Media Age conference. (c) This morning I gave a keynote at the global ‘Crisis Communications in the Social Media Age’ conference in Istanbul. And thank you Aaron for that fascinating insight into how social media has changed journalism.

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Assessing Ottawa Public Health’s ongoing response to the endoscopies infection scare

PR Conversations

Keeping in mind that risk is about both uncertainty and possibility, the scenario of an overwhelmed healthcare system surely played out in the health department’s decision making. It proceeded with its own investigation and a strategy of public disclosure only when it became evident that the other agencies involved would not do so.