Public relation (PR) is active managing of communication of an organization or business to create and maintain a positive image. Public relation involves popularizing successes‚ downplaying failures‚ announcing changes‚ and many other activities. The term Public Relations was first used by the US President Thomas Jefferson during his address to Congress in 1807. Today “Public Relation is a set of management‚ supervisory‚ and technical functions that foster an organization’s ability to strategically
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Professor Wolfe Comm 201 22 April 2012 Does public relations in sports do more harm than good? Professional and collegiate athletics have been becoming more and more popular every year. The problem is‚ it is not just the athletic aspect of the games that audiences are interested anymore. Every day people look for new gossip and/or scandals in the sports world‚ and unfortunately other people are giving them exactly what they want. The Public Relations industry was originally supposed to be used
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Licensing and The Public Relations Professional: (Will They Ever Be Card Carrying Members?) PR’s Pioneers The public relations field has the opportunity to connect its past and present to garner a powerful future‚ by making the PR profession a licensed one. Since the time of such PR pioneers like Edward Bernays (1891 - 1995)‚ argued to be the "father of public relations" and Ivy Lee (1877 1934) also argued to be the "father of public relations‚ PR practitioners have desperately
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PR 350: International Public Relations Academic Essay Table of Contents  Question 3 1. Introduction 4 2. Definition of Ethics 5 3. Should ethical behaviour differ from country to country? 8 4. How can public relations practitioners an international company ’s ethical behaviour? 11 5. Conclusion 13 6. References 14 Question Ethics and public relations some might say it is an oxymoron. What is your definition of ethics
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Anderson Reflection Paper 2 Comm 100 November 11‚ 2012 Since the development of public relations in the 1920s‚ its popularity and significance in the world has grown immensely. Public relations opened up a new way of creating an understanding for a companies‚ people and products‚ much different than had been known through advertising. While advertising is a one-way form of communication that costs money‚ public relations is a two-way communication system that is free and cannot control what people
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fundamental to the public relations process? Give examples of different research techniques which may be applied to obtain a variety of information in public relations planning. Research is a fundamental part of the public relations process‚ and can be undertaken at any or all stages of the public relations process depending on the questions asked and the answers to be obtained (Johnston and Zawawi‚ 2004). It has been indicated by James Grunig in Macnamara’s Research in Public Relations: A review of
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positive corporate image and reputation‚ and delivering promised corporate behaviour and standards; how identity crisis can lead to adverse consequences; the importance and cruciality of businesses to react and respond strategically to the right publics at the right time and so on and so forth- it is even evident‚ in real situations whereby failure to manage crisis would affect businesses detrimentally in terms of sales volume‚ consumer loyalty and trust‚ revamp of the management and even to the
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Financial Public Relations What is Financial PR? Simply put‚ communicating with the financial public is known as financial public relations. But‚ then‚ if all publics are equal in the eyes of PR‚ how do some publics come to gain special importance with the same PR? In fact‚ these special publics are quite sizeable in number and form dominant groups in the domain of financial public relations. They matter more to the organization although no PR and management can ignore any public‚ and effective
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PR99 – Contemporary Public Relations Study Guide 1. All of the following are to be considered when making ethical decisions in public relations EXCEPT: * Ethical decisions are based on: the public interest‚ employer or client‚ * professional organization code of ethics and personal values. 2. Which demographic group is the largest consumer of television‚ magazines‚ books‚ and newspapers? * Baby Boomers 3. “Respecting all opinions and supporting the right of
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Week 1: Chapter 3- Role of the public relations practitioner Key roles for PR: Managerial Operational Reflective (role of analysing changing social values to adjust to organisations‚ standards and values of social responsibility and is aimed at influencing the dominant coalition). Educational (aims to increase communication competence of employees). • Systems theory works on a basis that everything in the social world is part of a system that interacts with other systems on that
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