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PRSA Introduces Innovative Program to Guide Journalists Transitioning Into PR and Communications

PRSay

Through the years, the PR and comms fields have been attractive landing spots for journalists with their writing and storytelling skills and media prowess. Journalists have excellent communications skills, such as writing and the ability to speak clearly and concisely. Many of the most successful PR executives were former journalists.

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Behind the Headlines With Ted Meyer

Cision

I’ve always been a news junkie and loved to write since I was a little kid. I had a few stories published in high school journals, and starting around junior high I used to write letters to the editor of the local paper. Learn to write well. Read the newspaper – the whole newspaper. Karma is real.

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Increasing Your Media Coverage Through Storytelling

PRSay

Whether you serve a large corporation, small nonprofit, major research university or municipal government, at some point your boss has probably said, “We need more media attention. Which students at your local college or university are already making the world a better place, and how are they doing it? Can you make it happen?”

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What is PR? 141 PR and Comms Pros Explain What They Do for a Living

Sword and the Script

What is for sure is that a solid PR team is versatile and can expertly cover down on a broad number of functions: internal comms, external comms, executive comms, media relations, analyst relations, corporate social responsibility, thought leadership and marcom, and as I’ve long proposed, content marketing, among many others.

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Lin Pophal on the Evolving Role and Field of PR

Flack's Revenge

In smaller markets, like where I live, there has long been a tendency for media professionals to seek corporate roles when they become available. When I was director of corporate communications at a local healthcare organization, I would regularly receive a number of resumes from reporters whenever PR jobs opened up.

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Behind the Headlines With Kim Spear

Cision

For example, a PR program for a multinational corporation (MNC) setting up a new retail chain in China is very different from working with a government department to promote a new destination within a city. Be locally relevant, build trust, be mindful of your tone of voice and don’t underestimate the power of relationships.

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10 things the PR consultants won’t tell you about PR consultants

Communications Conversations

If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you know I’m a big devotee of reading the hard copy print edition of my local newspaper, the Minneapolis Star Tribune. But at the end of the day we write off a fair amount of work. We really do have more fun than you corporate folks. But, it happens. To the media.

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