Anne Gregory on relationships between public relations and journalism

I don’t know how to do this properly, but I would like to recoup the discussion which has been going on in this blog about this evergreen issue because it seems to me that every comment raises new issues. So I will profit from this very welcome contribution from professor Anne Gregory to Judy Gombita’s excellent report on Ira Basen’s recent remarks at the cprs annual general meeting with a warm invitation to all visitors...

Two great stories from the Cape Town Festival

By far the most interesting presentation of the Fourth World Public Relations Festival arrived when Ms. Mindi P. Kasiga, Senior Communication Officer from the Office of the President of Tanzania, brilliantly took us through a fascinating five year process of total rehaul of that Government’s communication in its transition from an information to a dialogue based model of public relations practice.

How can public relations improve the quality of decisions and accelerate their implementation?

If I had ten savvy CEO’s from the private, public and social sectors of the economy around a table and, at a certain point of our conversation, I asked them: ‘amongst the following three challenges you face today, which -in your opinion-is the one which deserves your priority attention?’ ……and the three challenges were: °identify, attract, retain and capitalize talent; °improve the quality of management decisions and accelerate their time of implementation; °effectively integrate the...

“Digital tusks” enhance “quality writing” reach to thought leaders on politics, economy, arts and tech coverage

My Media in Canada subscription hit the in-box this a.m., with a lead article cleverly called “The Walrus adds digital tusks.” Having taken out a (print) subscription to The Walrus this past fall during the Word on the Street festival in Toronto—and being very pleased indeed with the quality and breadth of the publication and writers, I’m equally happy to hear the publisher is raising the social media bar and general reach, by introducing new...