Published on April 25, 2017, at 11:00 a.m. by Julia Cione. Public relations and marketing jobs seem to have many overlapping roles in the job market. There are obvious differences between the two industries; however, it is important to recognize the ways in which they are
Published on November 11, 2016, at 12:41 p.m. by Megan Perkins. Doctors save lives. Teachers educate students. Police officers fight crime. Public relations practitioners write press releases? The entirety of the public relations profession cannot be summed up in one simple phrase. It’s a complex
Posted on April 25, 2016, at 4:20 p.m. by Elizabeth Broussard. This past February, Starbucks announced a small, yet meaningful, change to its customer rewards program. Instead of receiving one star for every visit to the coffee chain and a free drink or food for
Posted on November 6, 2015, 7:33 p.m. by Madalyn Atherton. As summer ends and the fall season looms closer, you can sense a shift in the air that’s more than just the changing of the seasons. Candy, costumes and smoke machines are right around the corner,
Posted on Nov. 4, 2015, at 3 p.m. by Caroline Giddis. “Doug is very … lazy in the morning,” said Leslie Mosier. “Some mornings are crazy when we have a video or photo shoot. He’s just like a sack of potatoes so usually I’ll wake
Posted on November 3, 2015, at 9:15 p.m. by Sally Immel. If a picture is worth a thousand words, what is the value of a Snapchat filter? Some marketing pros would say “priceless.” Snapchat has created a whole new meaning to the word “selfie,” and
Posted on November 2, 2015, at 5:40 p.m. by Kristen Ellis. In our society’s long-standing battle against seemingly harmless food groups, gluten is the new enemy. Celebrities such as Gwyneth Paltrow and Miley Cyrus swear by gluten-free dieting, and a walk down the grocery store aisle reveals
Posted on Oct. 30, 2015, at 6 p.m. by Katie Gatti. Taylor Shelnutt covered the changes in Google’s new logo several weeks ago, but two months after its advent seems an appropriate time to reflect on what this change truly means for the world’s biggest
Posted on Oct. 21, 2015 at 1:30 p.m. by Mackenzie Lyng. No one would argue that social media is the most powerful driver of consumer culture since the advent of TV. Today there are one billion Facebook users, 560 million Twitter followers and 150 million
Published on October 5, 2015, at 7:40 p.m. by Madalyn Atherton. It’s no secret that these days, our attention spans are shorter. We live our lives 140 characters at a time and barely have any patience for a five-second ad before a video. Despite that,
