Posted: March 16, 2015, 10:51 a.m. by Kaitlin Goins. Lady Gaga may have been born this way, but I can’t read her poker face. After her Oscars performance, she’s on the edge of glory with plenty of applause. Props to whoever dreamed up the Lady Gaga rendition of “The Sound of Music” for the 2015 […]
Posted: March 16, 2015, 10:49 a.m. by Annslee Wilson. In today’s public relations industry, some practitioners do not believe that academic research is a valuable resource. Crisis management research, in particular, is often overlooked as a key player in providing practitioners the best practices used for restoring the reputation of brands and individuals. Dr. Kenon […]
Posted: March 16, 2015, 10:49 a.m. by Kaitlin Goins. Sitting in Dr. Meg Lamme’s advertising and public relations management graduate course a few weeks ago, you would have found 10 students staring intently at our professor as she quickly wrote words on the whiteboard during a brainstorm session. Were we interested? Yes. Were we contributing? […]
Posted: March 16, 2015, 10:45 a.m. by Katie Lansford. Buzzfeed. It’s a combination of social media, viral content, quizzes, videos and serious news stories. It’s addictive and entertaining. But most importantly, it’s changing the way we consume content online. Buzzfeed is forward thinking in that it understands what makes millennials tick. In an age where […]
Posted: March 16, 2015, 10:31 a.m. by Sadie Schwarm. Fall of 2014 was filled with widespread fear after the microscopic killer, Ebola, swept the nation. News cycles ran 24/7 to update the public about newly diagnosed Ebola patients and the health status of infected individuals. Now that it has been three to four months after […]
Posted: March 16, 2015, 10:10 a.m. by Mackensie Henderson. After years of plummeting sales numbers, the music industry has taken to its key players to amass more publicity. Between Justin Timberlake’s success in bringing back vinyl records and Beyoncé’s innovative method of releasing an album, the music industry is attempting to increase its sales through groundbreaking […]
Posted: March 16, 2015, 10:05 a.m. by Sarah Parker. Pinterest just got a lot more exclusive. The avid bloggers’ favorite website announced last week that it is banning affiliate links, the embedded links that take Pinterest users to the sites that sell the featured item. For example, if you saw a picture of a great pair […]
Posted: March 16, 2015, 10:13 a.m. by Esther Workman. Public relations is a female-saturated industry dominated by males. But not for long. According to a 2010 Ragan study, the PR industry is 85 percent female, and yet, 80 percent of upper-level management is male. Those numbers are overwhelming. How and why do 15 percent of […]
Posted: March 16, 2015, 10:00 a.m. by Katie Vette. Is Twitter dying amongst our generation? It’s the question every 20-something has been asking themselves for the past few months — maybe even the past couple of years. A blog published by The Washington Post said Twitter isn’t dying; it died in 2009 after the birth […]
Posted: March 9, 2015, 3:23 p.m. by Ethan Wiggins. Ludlow, Colorado, April 20, 1914: 1,200 striking coal miners and their families are attacked by the Colorado National Guard and the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company camp guards. More than two dozen men, women and children are killed. In the eyes of many, there is only […]
