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Ranger Scott Gediman on the Ferguson Fire and 22 Years as Yosemite Park’s Public Affairs Officer

PRSay

Over his 22 years as public affairs officer at Yosemite National Park , Scott Gediman has experienced a myriad of crises on the job, from floods and rock falls to hantavirus outbreaks. “It Here in the public affairs office there are just two of us — there used to be five, and then there were four, and then three.

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Ethics & doing the right thing in PR

The Resolution Blog

In this episode I interview Anthony Hayes, founder of the Hayes Initiative, based in NYC. We discuss his experience of upholding ethics in public affairs PR, where responsibility lies in mis-information in the media and why following your heart in communications is so important.

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Insights Into the Role of Communicators at the U.S. Department of Defense

PRSay

We recently completed 21 focus groups and in-depth interviews with graduates of the Defense Information School’s Mass Communication Foundations (MCF) course. When conducting interviews, capturing raw footage in the field, lighting a shot or running a soundboard for Facebook Live, proper techniques remain important, the service members agreed.

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Meet PRSA Board of Directors Nominee Jacqueline ‘Jackie’ Clark, APR, Fellow PRSA

PRSay

Each week, PRsay will interview one of the nominees for the 2022 PRSA Board of Directors. Region, Government Relations & Public Affairs. Alma mater: Undergrad: University of Missouri; Graduate: Hauptmann School of Public Affairs, Park University. Name: Jacqueline “Jackie” Clark, APR, Fellow PRSA.

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What You Can Do With a Public Relations Degree

5W PR

Public relations specialist PR specialists develop and implement communication strategies to promote and protect client or organizational reputation. They create press releases , media pitches, and coordinate interviews to generate positive media coverage.

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The “data-led approach” of MHP + Mischief: Q&A with Digital Director, Darika Ahrens

NewsWhip

This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Sector specialists, early on in their career, volunteer to take on additional training and use tools on behalf of their teams – so they can work out specifically how a tool supports their area of consultancy be it public affairs, pharmaceutical, financial services or so on.

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An “Interview” with ChatGPT: What is Public Relations? How Has PR Changed? Will Artificial Intelligence Replace Comms Pros?

Sword and the Script

We interviewed ChatGPT about public relations and while it does well with high-level questions, it becomes repetitive when those questions were more nuanced; the system says it is “unlikely” that it “or any other AI system will fully replace public relations (PR) professionals”. How Has PR Changed?