Italian women in PR: challenges and opportunities
Op-Ed by Enrica Orecchia Italian women in PR: challenges and opportunities The gender-balance question in our PR discipline continues to be a topic of interest, as evidenced by a recent…
Career moves in public relations: Climbing ladders, revolving doors and musical chairs
Are you looking for a career move or new opportunity in public relations? Judging by my own observations of the use of hashtag #PRjob on Twitter, there are plenty of…
PRoust Questionnaire: Al Clarke
The PRoust Questionnaire provides a quick insight into a public relations practitioner’s interests and point of view, as well as his or her professional beliefs and values. If you are…
PR use of statistics on trial – where’s your evidence?
Guest post by Nigel Hawkes. Healthcare reform is controversial, as both the US and the UK have found. In Britain, a chorus of protest has been generated by a Bill…
Public relations as a promotional industry
It is hard not to believe the PRSA’S #prdefined initiative has resulted in three proposed definitions supporting public relations as a profession. Any reference to persuasive or promotional aspects of…
PRoust Questionnaire: Léa Werthman
The PRoust Questionnaire provides a quick insight into a public relations practitioner’s interests and point of view, as well as his or her professional beliefs and values. If you are…
Plotting PR narrative in social media
In public relations, narrative offers a way to enable ideas, opinions, values and meaning to be expressed within a broader framework than the concept of “key messages”, which tend to…
Pink Ribbons, Inc. — Rage against the marketing machine’s "shiny, pink success story"
A “conversational” documentary film review by Judy Gombita and Madeline Lunney Question 13 of our PRoust Questionnaire: “Has a novel, film, play or other work of fiction ever influenced you…
Social media engagement: The PR2.0 shift for politics
Guest post by Tyler Orchard Social media engagement: The PR2.0 shift for politics Whether you work in the private or public sector, social media and PR2.0 have evolved into something…
Nurturing Knowledge – a job for PR
‘Imagine a World Without Free Knowledge’ – Wikipedia’s blackout protest statement is a reminder of the value and reliance placed on repositories of online information. How many of us turn…