ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JUNE 10, 2020

Traditionally at Crenshaw Communications , our offices would be filled with recent PR grads eager to learn about life at an agency and the ins and outs of the public relations business. But just because a new graduate isn’t working in an agency doesn’t mean they can’t learn about PR and start to plan a career.

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Cision

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Kevin Turpin, president at the National Journal, details his vision for the company with a focus on innovation and creativity. In this interview, Kevin discusses his career with National Journal. National Journal was the perfect fit for that criteria. So how do you ensure that you stand out?

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

APRIL 13, 2023

Public relations is about building relationships between an organization and its audience. When I was interviewing with Crenshaw, one of the first things I noticed was that the leader interviewing me was a man of color – someone who looked like me. It can also lead to more innovative solutions and better problem-solving.

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Employee Community Groups Interviews 156

Wadds Inc.

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Young consumers start their news journeys on social platforms and have less loyalty to publications. These are the headlines of a new study - What does news media mean to Gen Z - by Rebecca Roberts, founder of Thread & Fable, an agency that specialises in youth audiences. The work was funded and published by the CIPR Research Fund.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 2, 2024

This AI is ‘Taylor’ Made for Media Relations; PRophet Adds Generative AI to PR Software Former PR agency leader is a building software product focused on improving PR pitches with two different types of artificial intelligence. An “Interview” with ChatGPT: What is Public Relations? How has PR Changed?

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MAY 13, 2021

Crenshaw Communications, a New York-based public relations agency specializing in B2B technology PR, is seeking an Assistant Account Executive (AAE) to join our dynamic B2B technology team. Attend and facilitate media interviews; network with reporters and editors. Previous experience working in a PR agency.

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B2B Policies Case Study Enterprise 203

The Hoffman Agency

APRIL 24, 2024

I have known that I wanted to work in public relations since I was 10 years old. I ended up at the University of Oregon (UO) School of Journalism and Communication, and I loved that it had a dedicated PR major. A mutual on LinkedIn shared the job post, and I remembered hearing about the agency during a class at UO.

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The Resolution Blog

JANUARY 31, 2019

I interviewed Jim for the latest episode of the PR Resolution podcast. Jim’s industry insights are golden nuggets of knowledge for anyone in Public Relations, which makes his new role at SWNS media group so interesting. Listen now. Also available on iTunes and Spotify.

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Remote PR Jobs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Originally seen on PR Daily Landing coverage in reputable news outlets is essential in this era of dwindling public trust. Yet the business of public relations is thriving. The public values journalism, and people are moving to media channels they trust. One reason is that PR is more relevant—and valuable—than ever.

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Wadds Inc.

JULY 7, 2022

PRCA report highlights opportunities for the public relations profession to provide professional advisory services on climate crisis related issues. It’s encouraging to see a rise in public relations practitioners helping clients understand the climate crisis. Agencies need to report on Scope 1, 2 and 3 carbon emissions.

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Leadership Publicity Energy Crisis 52

Wadds Inc.

JULY 6, 2022

Public relations practitioners fall short of the expectations of a profession. It’s a limiting factor for public relations to realise its potential as a management discipline. There is no barrier to entry to working in public relations. There’s little to distinguish it from the career path into hairdressing or estate agency.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 1, 2017

B2B reporters today don’t do media interviews like they once did. There’s only so much time in the day which means fewer interviews are conducted. If you are fortunate enough to secure an interview, then you certainly want to make the most of it. Below are ten proven tips for successful media interviews.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Public relations is an intensely competitive industry. Filling PR agency positions is harder than in the past, when press relationships, networking ability, and writing chops were all that mattered. Specialized agencies have specialized needs. Take my agency; we focus on tech PR, with a particular focus in B2B technology.

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B2B Apparel Product Launch Agency 159

The Hoffman Agency

APRIL 19, 2024

The offer to intern at The Hoffman Agency came at the perfect time. I was struggling to land interviews, and the few that I did get ended in rejection or radio silence. Hoffman’s reputation in the Pacific Northwest was very present within the walls of the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication (SOJC).

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Bianchi Biz Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Transport Topics is a business-to-business publication that exists to provide our readers with business intelligence and insights that can help them run their organizations more effectively and better plan for the future. How long have you been in journalism and how did you get started? That works both ways.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JULY 22, 2019

Yet the business of public relations is thriving. The good news is that the public seems to value the role of journalism, and people are moving to media channels they trust. Beyond earned media, typical PR tactics guild relationships, engage influencers, and even help change public perception and behavior. Credibility.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JULY 11, 2018

Seeing a client’s interview in a key publication is still a quintessential public relations win, so PR pros spend a lot of time perfecting media pitching. But once we get a “yes” to a pitch or interview request, it’s no time to sit back and relax. Join the interview. Nail it down, fast.

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Flack's Revenge

MAY 14, 2019

I’ve found that most just want great results, they’re not trying to milk an agency. PR pro and blogger Frank Strong recently wrote about challenges confronting journalism and the PR profession. I list them below, for each kind of opportunity, and shed light on agency and client roles. Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay.

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PRSay

APRIL 2, 2020

But it’s the new reality as the journalism industry is sending reporters, producers, anchors and editors home to report on the COVID-19 pandemic in real-time. Now, more than ever, journalists are relying on every type of video chat technology to get interviews, including Skype, FaceTime, Google Meet, Zoom and more.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 24, 2018

Public relations has many fans, from legendary figures like Steve Jobs, to the current occupant of the White House. As Greg Galant of MuckRack once observed , the advertising business is linked with iconic characters like Don Draper of “Mad Men,” while public relations is more likely to evoke Samantha Jones.

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Solo PR Pro

OCTOBER 5, 2021

After college, Doug was a typical journalism nomad, working in newsrooms in Chicago, New York and Washington, D.C. In 2000, he jumped the fence to take a communications-focused role at global PR agency FleishmanHillard. In 1997, when USA Today moved him from D.C.

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Solo PR Pro

APRIL 8, 2021

She began her career as an aspiring newspaper reporter, securing an internship at the Atlanta Journal Constitution before becoming a daily reporter in Greenville, South Carolina, not far from her hometown. Pivoting from journalism to PR. I knew that journalism was changing,” she said. “I Sure, I can do that. ”.

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Sword and the Script

JULY 26, 2022

In this guest post, Rudi Davis, Head of Agency at Intelligent Relations, argues organizations should focus on earned media during a recession because it has credibility and a low relative cost with high impact. You find a publication and say, “Hey, there’s a pretty wild trend happening in your field. Batten down the hatches.

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Ethical Voices

JANUARY 30, 2023

Joining me on this week’s episode is Scott Brooks , a public relations specialist for the TVA. My background is in radio and television journalism. I spent about the first 15 years of my career doing radio, television and also some print journalism over the years.

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Mindful Marketing

JUNE 15, 2015

Drew McLellan has worked in advertising for 25+ years and started his own agency, McLellan Marketing Group, in 1995 after a five-year stint at Y&R. The agency specializes in B2B financial services industries. Drew also owns and runs Agency Management Institute (AMI), which offers agency management training and consulting.

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Solo PR Pro

DECEMBER 14, 2021

While studying journalism at UW Madison, Bob started out working as a student state reporter and had the opportunity to interview and write about several big-time politicians. “I I remember I was this close to interviewing Barack Obama when he was a state senator,” Bob recalls. “I Lessons learned in the seminary.

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Flack's Revenge

DECEMBER 20, 2018

It is the latest in my series of interviews with industry experts (see this post , which sets the stage). Far too many brands delegate, and relegate social strategy development and implementation to their ad agencies, internal marketing departments, even their PR intern, with a mandate to replicate, share, and spread commercial messages.

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Cision

JULY 25, 2017

For example, if you are in the public relations industry you would be better off having a site like PRWeek to link to you than a small agency blog that’s only been around for a couple of years. Bell holds a degree in journalism from the University of Missouri School of Journalism. Follow him on Twitter @nbell94102.

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Shift Communications

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

When you ask a client what their dream publication/piece of coverage is, nine times out of ten they will name a top tier business publication: Forbes, Fortune, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, etc. That’s a really long time in the world of journalism, where reporters are sometimes cranking out two or three stories a day.

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Flack's Revenge

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

If you are interviewing PR agencies, a good question to ask is: “what business are you in?” The reason is that any agency worth its salt knows that press coverage will happen. The reason is that any agency worth its salt knows that press coverage will happen. What do these trends mean for PR?

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 12, 2022

In an interview on this blog in 2021 , Propel Co-Founder and CEO Zach Cutler said as a former PR agency owner, he couldn’t find software that met his agency’s growth needs. The company says it has “150 business and agency customers, including Real Chemistry, Textron, Insurify and many other unicorns.”

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PRSay

MAY 8, 2020

Attitudes shift about virtual interviews. There was once a time when a journalist would scoff at the idea of an interview over Skype or Google Hangouts. That’s bad news for publications that rely on advertising to make up large portions of their budgets. Now, these are tools that they need to use to do their jobs.

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Skype Media Interviews Advertising 192

PRSay

JANUARY 11, 2020

Harold Burson, APR, Fellow PRSA , the distinguished founder of one of the world’s largest PR agencies, died on Friday in Memphis, Tenn. Under their leadership, the agency became a global powerhouse with 2,500 employees in 50 offices. Under their leadership, the agency became a global powerhouse with 2,500 employees in 50 offices.

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Newspapers Interviews Agency Leadership 128

PRSay

MAY 17, 2021

To look for insights that might improve the outlook for this year, I turned to Muck Rack’s “ The State of Journalism 2021 ” survey from March. But only 34 percent of reporters surveyed by Muck Ruck see agency PR people as credible sources, while more than half (55 percent) said a company’s in-house PR representatives are more credible.

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PR Conversations

JANUARY 20, 2015

As media scandals go, it was a big one for Canada: The revelation that for the past two years one of the nation’s better-known TV news anchors was a part owner of a small public relations firm. For public relations practitioners committed to ethics and professionalism, the natural first instinct was self-righteous shock.

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PR Conversations

JANUARY 20, 2015

As media scandals go, it was a big one for Canada: The revelation that for the past two years one of the nation’s better-known TV news anchors was a part owner of a small public relations firm. For public relations practitioners committed to ethics and professionalism, the natural first instinct was self-righteous shock.

Journalism 40

Journalism Reputation Ethics Corporate 40

Cision

AUGUST 16, 2016

Erik Wheater, account executive at Burns360, details his transition from a five-year career in television news to the PR agency life. In this interview, Erik discusses moving from one media world to the next. How has your background in journalism influenced your abilities in PR? What has been most helpful?

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Television Pitching Journalism Interviews 120