Driven to give back
21 Nov 2005 | by Mark Hand
Today's PR pros understand the importance of grooming tomorrow's players.
Robert French, a professor at Auburn University, has helped inject the subject of blogs into the curriculum of PR students.
Today's PR pros understand the importance of grooming tomorrow's players.
Individuals and employers alike often question how a formal university or graduate education in communications is effective to a PR pro.
Publicists - a term that broadly applies to PR practitioners who work for and promote celebrities - can get a raw deal from the larger profession, which is still somewhat preoccupied with emphasizing all the other things that PR does.
"Innovation" features have appeared in a number of magazines over the past few months, from Business Week to Ad Age to CMO .
NEW YORK: The search has be-gun for PRWeek's 2006 Student of the Year.
WASHINGTON: A long-awaited report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has ruled that the Department of Education's (DoE) contract with Ketchum and Armstrong Williams to promote the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law resulted in covert propaganda.
NEW YORK: John Doorley, the former head of corporate communications at Merck, has joined New York University as academic director of the school's first graduate degree in PR.
As one friend of mine has commented when speaking about efforts to provide relief for victims of Hurricane Katrina, "it's a marathon, not a sprint."
I hate being asked if I "get it."
Welcome to the first incarnation of a new element in Campaign in which we invite experts to burrow beneath the surface of the catch-all that is "digital". Google, Isobar Mobile, JWT London, LBI and MBA share their insights on mobile.