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

PRSay

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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Osaka Episode puts Media, Sports and Celebrity on Trial

Flack's Revenge

What is an athlete’s obligation to the sport that helped make her a star (she’s the world’s highest paid female in sports)? Do the media have an inalienable right to put athletes up against the wall at the pleasure of sports fans? I think it’s very important in developing our sport, in promoting our sport.”

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Not all fun & games: Sports tie-ins can cause uneasy moments for clients—agencies beware!

Agility PR Solutions

Many years ago before jumping the fence to the PR side, I was a sports reporter for several New York City newspapers and a wire service. In those days, sports news was considered unimportant, compared to business, political and world news. (It It still is, in my opinion.)

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How Sports #PR has Changed for the Better (Mostly)

Deirdre Breakenridge

This is even more evident in the sports world. Sports organizations would conduct their PR through traditional forms of media; newspapers, television, billboards, things like that. When your favorite team signed a big player, you could read about it in the newspaper and there might be a television campaign highlighting him/her.

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

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#MediaMonday – Craig Harris

HMA Public Relations

Today’s #MediaMonday profile comes to us from Craig Harris, editor-in-chief of The Coronado News, a direct mail weekly newspaper, newsletter and daily website with local and national news, sports and financial coverage. Meet Craig and learn more about this publication launching on Jan. in this post!

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The top websites in Germany, Spain, and Italy on Facebook in 2023

NewsWhip

Spain’s top websites on Facebook A common theme we’ve seen in Spain over the years is an attachment to websites centered around sports. Dedicated to all Spanish sports, but specifically soccer, these websites are consistently popular on Facebook because of their commitment to recapping games and keeping tabs on soccer’s brightest stars.