Posted on December 3, 2015, at 6:30 p.m. by Katie Gatti. An email sent to a potential employer varies significantly from a text sent to a close friend. A letter written to a grandparent might be a little more content-appropriate than a tweet fired off to a misbehaving significant other. The takeaway from these mundane […]
Posted on December 1, 2015, at 6:00 p.m. by Taylor Shelnutt. Ever met someone who has truly done it all, managing a full career and a fuller life with apparent effortlessness? Ron Culp, professional director of the public relations and advertising graduate program at DePaul University, is one of those people. And yet, he still […]
Posted on December 1, 2015, at 6:00 p.m. by Caroline Giddis. The scent of honey-baked ham wafts through the living room. Family members you haven’t seen in months gather around a large table. They laugh, scoop up handfuls of sweet potatoes, and enjoy one another’s company. However, the good times will come to an end […]
Posted on November 30, 2015, at 5:45 pm. by Hayley Kilgo. Sometimes making a simple decision of what you should wear, eat for dinner or watch next on Netflix can be a rather difficult choice. But no worries, Twitter has officially released an easy way to get help with making those decisions with the creation […]
Posted on November 30, 2015, at 5:45 p.m. by Luke Thomas. Nursing degrees beget nurses, pharmacology schools create pharmacists and culinary academies pop out chefs. But what does a school of communication produce … communicators? As you can see, the answer isn’t as clear-cut. Public relations degrees, in particular, can take you well outside the […]
Posted on Nov. 18, 2015 at 1 p.m. by Shelby Bonner. Not everyone is Beyoncé. Thankfully, for those who can’t release a successful album overnight with no prior warning to the public, there’s social media. It’s no secret that being active on social media boosts popularity and can help propel you into the public eye. […]
Published on November 17, 2015, at 6:00 p.m. by Madalyn Atherton. The dictionary defines public relations as the “state of the relationship between the public and a company or other organization.” PR is about telling stories. Whether it’s to sell something or promote someone or any of the other countless reasons, a story is at […]
Posted on November 17, 2015, at 2:45 p.m. by Sally Immel. The horrific terrorist attacks in Paris last Friday night left “The City of Light” in the dark, and the rest of the world in a state of despair. While loved ones frantically watched the news, praying that each ambulance wasn’t holding someone they knew, […]
Posted on Nov. 12, 2015 at 1:45 p.m. by Caroline Giddis. A young girl stands in front of students in a lecture hall. They giggle as she walks in, but she stands tall and smiles. She says, “Hello, my name is Gwyneth, and I’ll be your professor today, and I will be talking about the […]
Posted on Nov. 11, 2015 at 6:30 p.m. by Katie Gatti. What’s the first thing most people do upon waking in the morning? While the standard morning wake-up call for hundreds of years had been to use the restroom and bathe, for the past decade, the first thing most people do in the morning is […]
