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		<title>Time for the truth about journalism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Journalism is just ditchwater&#8221;, a quote attributed to Carlyle in 1881, contrasts with the claims of modern journalists who believe they play a critical role in society as the Fourth Estate following in the footsteps of the investigative power evidenced in the Watergate saga.  It is this idea of the power of the media that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PRoust Questionnaire: Anne Gregory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Professor Anne Gregory, PhD, FCIPR, is director of the Centre for Public Relations Studies at Leeds Metropolitan University. Before moving into academic life, Anne spent 12 years in practice, holding senior appointments, both in-house and in consultancy.]]></description>
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		<title>In just one book – Global Public Relations: spanning borders, spanning cultures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Global Public Relations: spanning borders, spanning cultures 
 
Review by Toni Muzi Falconi
I&#8217;ve now been teaching Global Relations and Intercultural Communication at New York University&#8217;s Master&#8217;s in Public Relations for five years, including reviewing my (ever-changing) syllabus involving some 150 students to date.
From the very beginning, as mandatory course books I have opted to use the Vercic and Sriramesh&#8217;a Global [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Public relations should embrace not deny its marketing links</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many people think that PR is a subset of marketing – they are wrong [See this classic: ToughSledding post/comments if you don’t agree].  But so are those working in PR who seek to put great distance between what they do and marketing.  The denial of the close relationship with marketing which is necessary in most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A one-on-one chat with Solo PR’s Kellye Crane</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kellye Crane, a 20-year public relations and communication veteran, has been operating independently as Crane Communications, LLC since 1995. She is a member of the Public Relations Society of America. Kellye teaches others how to be a PR consultant on her blog, Solo PR Pro.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.prconversations.com/index.php/2010/08/a-one-on-one-chat-with-solo-pr%e2%80%99s-kellye-crane/</link>
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		<title>According to Doug Lacombe, taking a dump is not necessarily the news</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Unless publishers are prepared to add human aggregation and curation to the mix, they should shun syndication, lest they further commoditize the news business and strip away all value to readers and advertisers.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.prconversations.com/index.php/2010/07/according-to-doug-lacombe-taking-a-dump-is-not-necessarily-the-news/</link>
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		<title>PRoust Questionnaire: Markus Pirchner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The PRoust Questionnaire provides a quick insight into a public relations practitioner’s interests and point of view, as well as their professional beliefs and values. Answered by: Markus Pirchner]]></description>
		<link>http://www.prconversations.com/index.php/2010/07/proust-questionnaire-markus-pirchner/</link>
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		<title>The big question: What is PR?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In May 2008, Catherine Arrow produced a useful edited publication: What is PR? which brought together a range of posts from PR Conversation touching on the &#8221;big question&#8221; that seems to be of eternal interest to practitioners, academics and of course, students. 

Toni Muzi Falconi commenting on two recent events recommends re-reading this document.  He writes:

The Bled Symposium this year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Never kiss an alligator and other lessons from PR History</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The history of public relations began with PT Barnum parading elephants through small town America in the 1800s - with the famed huckster the cause of the ongoing misunderstanding of the profession.  That's the simplistic narrative found in the majority of PR text-book]]></description>
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		<title>Tim Marshall: Time for radical thinking and real PR leadership</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here's an idea for the public relations and communications management profession to hang its hat on - and to show leadership. Let us be the driving force to set up a Genuine Progress Index (GPI) for the world. ]]></description>
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