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ICON 2024 Recap: ABC’s Gio Benitez on Setbacks, Storytelling and the Power of ‘Yes’

PRSay

” By 2008, there were massive layoffs in the media industry, but he persevered and became an investigative producer at 22 years old. “I would work full-time for Channel 4 in Miami, and they would match whatever I made. That’s how I would pay for school because I grew up with a single mother who couldn’t afford to help me with college.”

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Book review: The Company and the Activist Going Beyond PR

Wadds Inc.

His career has included academic and senior corporate and leadership roles in the CIPR and PRCA. Through in-depth first-person interviews and case studies, Thomsons book explores the commitment and clear positions one would expect from activism on individual topics. Thomson is one of the UKs foremost public affairs leaders.

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PR Job Coach - Untitled Article

PR Job Coach

In close to four decades in the communications business, Patti has held senior leadership positions in four different areas of the industry: PR, Advertising Corporate and Start-up. From 2008-2014, Scott was the first global head of social media and digital communications at Ford Motor Company, where he helped turn the company around.

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Trends and Best Practices for Media Relations

PRSay

According to a Pew Research Center analysis of data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of newsroom jobs in the United States fell by 26 percent from 2008 to 2020. For his magazine stories, Smith needs three or four sources to interview, “but for our newsletter, one source is enough,” he says.

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Behind the Headlines With Kim Spear

Cision

Kim Spear, director at Newgate Communications, has helped her clients build brands in China and also worked with sponsors during the 2008 Beijing Olympics. In this interview, she discusses what it’s like to work in PR in Asia, what it takes to build a successful brand and how to stay on top of an ever-evolving industry.

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Podcasting 2.0 & Web 3.0 with Jennifer Navarrete on Growing Social Now

wiredPRworks

Produced for both aspiring and recognized digital thought leaders, this show focuses on how social media contributes to creating and sustaining business, Barbara interviews friends in high places. An early social media advocate, Barbara founded Social Media Club Chicago in 2008. About Growing Social Now. About Barbara Rozgonyi.

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Communicating with Creativity not C.R.A.P. with Beth Nyland on Growing Social Now with Barbara Rozgonyi

wiredPRworks

This was an interview I was so looking forward to – after all, Beth and I go way, way, way back to the early days when corporate communications was just making the transition to the first evolution of social media: the intranet. I know you’ll not only enjoy this interview, you’ll change the way you communicate forever.