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

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By Roddy Rasti, Karl Feld, Victoria Leoni and Lee Hill for the Defense Information School, a component of the Defense Media Activity. Traditional media skills such as radio broadcasting and television production are still vital. As with civilian PR, social media has assumed a dominant role in military public affairs.

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Leading With Ethics During COVID-19

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As a nationwide health care system, OEM was able to pull assets from across the country to develop a plan, and they worked with the VHA Office of Communications on both internal and external PR efforts. We provided weekly training sessions to ensure that public affairs officers could hone their skills.

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Thoughts on Balancing Your Professional Work and Your Activism

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On July 20, the Strike for Black Lives saw thousands of essential workers walk off their jobs to demand that corporations raise wages as well as provide health care and paid sick leave as part of a larger effort to pressure businesses to confront systemic racism. In this new model, organizations become part of a larger social system.

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Controlled Chaos: 86 Comms Pros Explain How Communications Work Has Changed

Sword and the Script

“Now need to produce videos and podcasts in-house – something that used to be a once-in-a-while activity and was outsourced – in addition to providing content for every social media platform and continuing all other ‘old school’ communication duties.”. Digital is no longer an afterthought, social media has gained prominence.”.

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Hidden PR Tools In Top Movies

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Almost Famous (2000) — Media Relations. The iconic publication sends a 15 year-old reporter to travel with the band on tour in order to write an in-depth piece. Both the inexperienced reporter and the naïve band members make the media relations mistake of getting too close to be objective.

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Crisis Management Lessons From Boeing’s 737 Max Disasters

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According to reports, an automated flight-control system had sent the airplanes into nosedives. Gordon Johndroe , vice president of global media relations and public affairs for the Chicago-based aircraft manufacturer, spoke to members of PRSA’s Corporate Communications Section in the Nov.

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Corbyn- PR Revenant?

Mark My Words

A year in to the experiment, and two successful leadership contests later, we know any attempt to school the ragged trousered socialist in the ways of media handling and spin would be to defy a force of nature. Although the FPTP voting system is unlikely to change anytime soon the future of parliamentary parties is still in doubt.