We announced this week the first class of Institute for Public Relations Research Fellows. They will be inducted at the Annual Distinguished Lecture & Awards Dinner, November 5 in New York.
With all the research commissions, conferences and councils supported by
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“I think that PR has always been about relationships, but it has changed fundamentally in that relationships have almost become the primary responsibility of a PR practitioner-and it’s not just with the Wall Street Journal or New York Times-it’s relationships with everyone who has a significant influence on the reputation of your company. I think it’s great for the function, for t
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This new book by Tom Martin – Executive in Residence, Department of Communication, College of Charleston – offers just what the subtitle says: what corporate communicators need to know about sharing their life experience with tomorrow’s leaders. Tom’s passion for his long career in corporate communications as well as his new career in the classroom illuminate this readable, informative, and per
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Sir Martin Sorrell, Group Chief Executive of WPP 
, and Steven J. Harris, Vice President of Global Communications for General Motors, will headline the Institute for Public Relations’ Annual Distinguished Lecture & Awards Dinner. The November 5 event will be at The Yale Club in New York City.
Sir Martin Sorrell’s speech will be titled, “Public Relations: The Story Behind a Remarkable Renaissance.”
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We’re back with the third edition of The Evolution of Public Relations: Case Studies from Countries in Transition. It has been our privilege to again serve as editors of this online book, published by the Institute for Public Relations and funded by Philips and Schering-Plough. <
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This column appeared in PRWeek, July 21, 2008, and is reproduced with permission.
Anyone who has spent time lately in college classrooms speaking to students in public relations and communication disciplines has seen first-hand an unmistakable trend. The field is finding it increasingly difficult to attract male s
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(The following provides insights on USC Annenberg’s fifth Gap Study, available free through a link below.)
In 2002 the head of global communications at a Fortune 50 company lamented to us, “I have no real idea of what my budget should be because there are no real benchmarks. That’s true of many other aspects of managing the communications function.”
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Now available, the report of the third annual Academic Symposium hosted by the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. The event was sponsored by the Institute for Public Relations and the Arthur W. Page Society. The 30 attendees included thought leaders from the academic community as well as corporate and agency leadership.
The 2008 symposium featured academic, corporat
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(The following is excerpted from a longer version published on Harold Burson’s Blog. It was written in response to a commentary by a legal commentator on CBS “Sunday Morning” who equated public relations to lying.)
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Page Turner, the blog of the Arthur W. Page Society, has published my posting regarding the three kinds of research in our field, and how that relates to the Institute for Public Relations’ Essential Knowledge Proj
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