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Should PRSA Sanction Public Relations Practitioners?

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As a result, effective public relations involves pushing a company’s or client’s agenda (or products and services) without being a pest, and ideally, by being helpful to reporters who are in a position to reciprocate with media coverage. It will remain a business function, nothing more.

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Page’s Seven Principles of Public Relations Management

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Although Edward Bernays is often characterized (largely through self-promotion) as the “father of public relations,” most serious PR practitioners consider Arthur W. Page to be the first and most influential apostle of modern-day public relations and corporate communications. Corporate relations is a management function.

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Why Public Relations Does Not Sit at the Senior Management Table

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If the Edward Bernays era is considered the profession’s starting point, then public relations has had nearly a century to earn its seat at senior management’s table. But there are two major reasons – involving credentials and values – why PR still does not, and may never, sit there.

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The Herb Schmertz Era: When Public Relations Had Some Balls

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brings to mind what many consider to be a golden age for Public Relations; the period from the mid-60s to mid-80s, when the PR profession had the mandate, the skills and the balls to stand up to criticism leveled against the organizations and people whom they represented. The recent passing of Rawleigh Warner, Jr.,

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Death by Content: How Press Release Abuse Killed Public Relations

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For public companies, dissemination of financial results and material events will be handled by their legal department. Because press releases are now considered sales collateral by their target audiences, “media relations” for all companies will be managed by the marketing department.

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The Harvard Cheating Scandal: Do Administrators Need “Public Relations 101??

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Harvard University announced last week that the school is investigating 125 students for possibly cheating on a take-home final exam for “Government 1310: Introduction to Congress.”

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PR Playbook: Earning Your Seat at the Senior Management Table

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Your public relations skills can be of great value to civic, charitable and cause-related organizations, and regardless of the motivation for contributing your time, these affiliations represent 3 rd party validation of your expertise.

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