An international conversation with CIPR candidates

Result announced:  The UK’s Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) has announced the results of its 2014 President election – with Stephen Waddington the successful candidate [polling 68% of votes; turnout 8.8% of membership]. PR Conversations offers congratulations to Stephen and Commisserations to Jon, the two candidates. During the election campaign, we invited them to participate in a PR Conversations post, and asked our public relations colleague and good friend, Dan Tisch, chair of the...

BLEDing-edge public relations research in 2012

Bled Symposium 2012 summary by Toni Muzi Falconi Ten years ago, in July 2002, some 100 scholars and professionals from many European countries met in Bled, Slovenia, to discuss and launch the Bled Manifesto, possibly the single most important document concerning our profession to date; this document has had a huge impact on developments in Europe and around the world. Bled is a cozy little lakeside village in Slovenia where, since 1993, Dejan Verčič and...