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S&T Live Recap: NCAA’s Gail Dent on Her Love of Sports and Lifelong Learning

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Gail Dent’s Sunday afternoons were spent watching sports on television with her family. Her parents were both sports fans, especially her dad. As a child, she saw how much people enjoyed watching sports, live or on television. She started looking at colleges that offered curriculum in sports management and administration.

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

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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. He thought I was a good fit for a position at G.S.

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What PR Pros Should Know about the Next Generation of Journalists

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As a sports reporter at the Chicago Sun-Times wrote, “It took the university’s student newspaper, The Daily Northwestern , to bring to light what the school chose not to.” Later that same month, The Daily Northwestern broke a national story about hazing allegations within the university’s football program.

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Trends and Best Practices for Media Relations

PRSay

When it comes to realizing the value of media relations, Op-Ed columns in newspapers are the gold standard. I cannot stress enough the importance of writing to the correct length as prescribed by the newspaper,” Yost says. With fewer newsrooms and journalists, media placements are more difficult and, therefore, more valuable.

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The widening generation gap–and what it means for communicators

Communications Conversations

They read the newspaper. They go to sporting events. They rarely (if ever) watch the news or read a newspaper. They’re assuming leadership positions and influencing budget decisions. Two generations. Living very different lives. One generation still watches the evening news. They trust and admire the media.

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9 Blogs To Make You PR-Smart

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

The site is always looking for contributors, making it a go-to for thought leadership pieces and guest blogging. The Boing Boing blog is an eclectic compilation of mostly weird and under-the-radar entertainment, political, sports and science stories usually illustrated with video. And, one of the best things about The Muse?

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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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