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Answering PR Questions from Your Friends and Relatives

Answering PR Questions from Your Friends and Relatives

Published on December 24, 2021, at 10:05 a.m. by Rachel Summers, Guest Contributor. Does this scenario seem familiar? You travel home for the holidays, excited to see family and friends. You find yourself in a conversation with some obscure uncle, and this classic conversation starts:

Ethics Start with You

Ethics Start with You

Published on September 24, 2019, at 10:32 a.m. by Emma Bannen and Whitney Blalock. Every public relations professional, student and educator is familiar with ethics. But what does this buzzword really mean in action? The Public Relations Society of America’s code of ethics is the

A Black Mirror Reflection of the Digital Future

A Black Mirror Reflection of the Digital Future

Published on February 14, 2018, at 6:53 p.m. by Skylar Spencer. What can be found on every wall, inside every palm and on every desk? A Black Mirror — the frigid and glossy screen of your computer, TV, smartphone and tablet. At least, that’s what

PR for the PR Industry

Published on January 23, 2018, at 10:48 a.m. by Lexi McKenzie. The surplus of young public relations professionals being churned out every graduation season makes our jobs that much more difficult. Not only is there increased competition, but as a result, our worth is decreasing

Lessons from the Emerald City

Lessons from the Emerald City

Published on April 26, 2017, at 1:24 p.m. by Erica Cooke. Seattle, the land of coffee and rain. It took a four-hour car ride from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, to a plane ride from Atlanta to O’Hare airport in Chicago, a five-hour delay, then a four-hour flight

Got Ethics?

Got Ethics?

Posted: November 25, 2013, 2:15 p.m. by Jessica Smith. The core of the public relations field is ethics. Ethics create guidelines for professionals to maintain their own credibility as well as their clients’. The Public Relations Society of America, or PRSA, has a code of ethics

A Price Worth Paying

A Price Worth Paying

Posted At: September 25, 2013 2:24 p.m. by Lexi Holdbrooks The job seeking process becomes more complex each year. Upcoming college graduates are jumping through hoops to stand out from the massive crowd of young professionals entering the job market. According to USnews.com, in 2000, more

Millennial’s Ethical Challenge: Changing the Stereotype

Posted At: April 4, 2012 3:00 PM by Mariah Fairweather For the past few years the millennial generation has been criticized for their lack of work ethic. The first to come of age in the new millennium, this generation encompasses people born between 1980 and

HILEAF at its best

HILEAF at its best

by Emily Diab Throughout my academic career, I’ve been constantly harassed by the phantoms of my own mind in creating the most creative, and sometimes downright stupid acronyms, in hopes that my college mind could cram just one more list for just one more exam.

Lindsay Lohan’s Top 5 PR Lessons

by Amanda Coppock As often as stars like Lindsay Lohan are in the public eye, you would expect them to understand how to use better public relations to their benefit. Lohan, for one, clearly has missed out on how to use PR to save her

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