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6 Simple Rules for Email Pitches

Cision

You probably won’t be surprised to learn that journalists continue to prefer email as the primary means of contact, with more than 90 percent indicating it as the best way to directly pitch a story idea. You also may not be surprised that there is a lot of conflicting advice about how to make your email pitches resonate.

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

Sword and the Script

90% of comms pros surveyed say their work has changed some, and of those, 50% say communications work has changed significantly. Most communicators say the volume of work has grown, but so too has the variety of work. Those who said communications work has “changed very significantly,” wrote: 1. Proven business value.

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What You Can Do With a Public Relations Degree

5W PR

Professionals in this field shape and maintain organizational reputations, manage communication strategies, and engage with stakeholders. Public relations specialist PR specialists develop and implement communication strategies to promote and protect client or organizational reputation.

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7 Rules for a New Era of Communications

PRSay

During the pandemic, economic crisis, racial tensions and partisan arguments that have marked 2020, we have started communicating differently. In fact, according to Dr. Vincent Covello of the Center for Risk Communication, stress can decrease people’s ability to process information by up to 80 percent. Our brains on stress. She wasn’t.

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Facebook And The Perils Of Opposition PR

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

But one detail that interested communicators was that it brought on PR agency Definers Public Affairs to run political-style oppo against competitors like Google and Apple. Many PR battles are waged in hotly competitive categories, and the line between aggressive communications and an outright smear campaign can be blurry.

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Jobs in Public Relations

5W PR

Public relations, at its core, is a communications industry that strives to maintain a positive public image for brands and corporations, to create brand awareness, to foster mutually beneficial relationships between clients and their audiences, and more. PR Specialists. PR Account Executives. Crisis Managers.

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Should Public Relations Change Its Name?

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

It implies a kind of “smile-and-dial” media pitch person, or a celebrity’s press agent. And as communicators, we are increasingly asked not just to generate coverage for our clients, but to build the relationships with third parties that actually influence behavior. Long live public relations. PR is dead.

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