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

PRSay

So far in 2024, the Los Angeles Times , The Wall Street Journal , Time magazine, Sports Illustrated and National Geographi c, among other outlets, have all conducted layoffs, while journalists at several Condé Nast publications staged walkouts over proposed job cuts. How was your transition into public relations?

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PRSA’s Kansas City Chapter Starts Scholarship Fund to Carry On Legacy of Trailblazer, Dr. Inez Y. Kaiser

PRSay

Her columns “Hints for Homemakers” and “Fashion and Otherwise” were published in Black newspapers across the country, and she was a guest contributor for The Kansas City Star ’s opinion column “As I See It.”. Encouraged by a newspaper editor, she decided to pursue a career in public relations. school district for 20 years.

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Traditional Media: From Endangered To Extinct

Maxim Behar

In 1999, in an interview with Bulgarian online media expert Justin Toms, I declared that print newspapers would be gone by 2025. Max, you’re going against your livelihood — you started in the press, with the printing press and newspaper ink! First, “newspaper” doesn’t exist anymore because the first part, “news,” is gone.

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Flawed Dot Connecting from Washington Post Correlates Rise of PR to the Fall of Journalism

Ishmael's Corner

Since Craigslist eviscerated the classified ads business in newspapers, journalists have been writing the “poor me” story. At some point, it became fashionable for these “poor me” stories to blame the PR industry for journalism’s shrinking job pool. Will the world of journalism be like the “good ole days” ever again?

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The Human Touch

Prakkypedia

Don’t overlook the people that work in your organisation: they could be the key to your next magazine piece, newspaper profile or 30-minute radio conversation. They’re the longer-form radio chat shows, the magazines containing feature articles, the Sunday newspapers with double-page spreads.

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Hola Felipe, Hola European Bulgaria.

Maxim Behar

First - my cousin, the legend in Bulgarian international journalism, Joseph Davidov, the man who made me passionate about this wonderful profession - to write, to enjoy every word or punctuation mark and to do my best to combine them into a clear and useful message - lived and worked there, and still does successfully.

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What PR Professionals Can Learn from Being Reporters First

Barokas

Before I discovered PR, I was dead set on becoming a fashion journalist. In my introductory journalism classes, my professors made it sound like PR professionals were magical fixtures at every event who could answer all of my questions. In college, I filled my time with journalism classes.

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