Items tagged with media relations
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Media Meltdown: When Relationships Go Bad
May 16, 2012
Editor’s note: This is a re-post of an article Merritt penned on what happens when professional media relationships go bad. A story broke last weekend in The Washington Post that a military spokesperson has filed a complaint agains...
How To Be An Effective Media Spokesperson
Apr 24, 2012
For most people, being a spokesperson is not a natural skill. It takes practice, preparation and careful consideration. But it has always been my experience that when a culture of communication is part of an organization’s mindset, its memb...
Public Relations Basics: Put Your Best Spokesperson Forward
Apr 19, 2012
When a company is involved in an issue impacting the general public and hopes to generate positive public opinion, who is the best person to respond to the hometown media covering the story? Often, for some inexplicable reason, companies turn to t...
Media Relations: It Shouldn't Come To This
Oct 31, 2011
About the worst thing that can happen between a PR organization and a reporter is bad blood so poisonous it cannot be cleansed. This past month, the ongoing dispute between Jack O’Dwyer and the Public Relations Society of America made the t...