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Pioneer John Harold Johnson (1918–2005)

Institute for Public Relations

While he attended the University of Chicago, Johnson worked part-time at Supreme Life Insurance … Continue reading Pioneer John Harold Johnson (1918–2005) → John Harold Johnson was born on Jan. 19, 1918, in Arkansas City, Arkansas.

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PR Has Evolved Since First ‘Public Relations Handbook’ in 1967, but Some Values Are Timeless

PRSay

About 2,200 local print newspapers have closed since 2005, cutting the number of newspaper journalists by more than half between 2008 and 2020. Daily newspaper circulation in the United States has fallen from its height of 61.8 million in 1974 to 24.3 million in 2020, according to Pew Research Center.

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PR must grow up and appreciate the value of qualifications, learning and research

Stephen Waddington

Exploring PR was originally conceived in 2005 as a collaboration between Ralph Tench and Liz Yeomans at Leeds Beckett University. We made a start at reflecting this by adding new material in the past few months as the book went to print. We’ve published the fifth edition of the book this week.

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Behind the Headlines With Jody Fisher

Cision

I led the PR team that worked on the arrival of the Space Shuttle Enterprise to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York — a huge story, on its own — and the final campaign clip report was spread over several successive PDFs and a single printed report used nearly 10 reams of paper packed into enormous binders.

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The Field of Emergency Management: Why It Is Not A Profession

Melissa Agnes

They refer to emergency management as a profession, yet indicate that following Hurricane Katrina in 2005 “…emergency managers were having a difficult time explaining their roles to policy makers and to the public. 1 (Printed in Wikipedia, “Lorne M. Now we leave it to you. How do you feel about this matter, what is your stance?

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Earned Media vs. Media Relations [PR Tech Sum]

Sword and the Script

Summary of monthly PR tech news: Critical Mention adds a media database; Talkwalker acquires Nielson Social; Watch out for fine print in media monitoring contracts As a term, earned media made a big splash in search trends in late 2004 or early 2005…and then interest waned.

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The Field of Emergency Management: Why It Is Not A Profession

Melissa Agnes

They refer to emergency management as a profession, yet indicate that following Hurricane Katrina in 2005 “…emergency managers were having a difficult time explaining their roles to policy makers and to the public. 1 (Printed in Wikipedia, “Lorne M. Now we leave it to you. How do you feel about this matter, what is your stance?

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