What is PR? 141 PR and Comms Pros Explain What They Do for a Living
If you ask 10 different public relations (PR) professionals what they do for a living, you’d get 10 different answers. For example, the 2019 JOTW Communications Survey posed this question to 223 PR and communications pros…and we received a wide... Read More
The Top 10 PR Tech Vendors by Familiarity and Favorability
Press releases are the PR industry’s favorite punching bag. PR pros and reporters alike will criticize the excessive use of adverbs, adjectives and quotes that have little substance. The exercise of getting a release through reviews and approvals can take... Read More
In-Housing Trend: What PR Agencies and Marketing Firms can Learn from Law Firms
Nearly half of respondents (47%) in a recent survey of public relations pros found many are observing more PR work being taken in-house. In other words, corporate communications is adding headcount and work that used to go to outside PR... Read More
PR Measurement: A Pulse Check on How Communicators Show Value
Tying outcomes to communications have been a challenge for a long time. For example, in a traditional media relations setting, how do you know if a media mention is moving the needle on reputation? On leads? On sales? On votes?... Read More
Corporate Communications is Taking More PR Work In-House, finds Survey; Media Relations Gets Even Harder
Corporate communications departments are taking more work in-house. It’s a trend that mirrors similar patterns seen broadly in the marketing for the last several years, where CMOs have slashed agencies in favor of in-house teams. Some 47% of respondents said... Read More
Dispelling 6 Myths PR Sometimes has about Content Marketing
Some time ago I pitched a reporter, who was looking for sources, on social media for a client. The pitch was about a study they had done. The reporter responded she hadn’t seen the study yet and would review it.... Read More
This is How the Sorry State of Media Relations Ends
A while back a reporter I had been pitching threw me what I thought was an unexpected softball. How about some commentary on X topic from X executive he asked? Of course, I jumped to make it happen. I’m an... Read More
38 Things PR Professionals Wish they Could Get Senior Management to Understand about Corporate Communications
Open-ended questions can sometimes be the most insightful part of a good survey. Often the answers to such questions provide nuance, context and even lead to new questions. More than once I’ve analyzed survey results for a client and wound... Read More
Press Releases aren’t Dead but Maybe Press Release Distribution Is
A couple weeks ago a client was locked out of their press release service. We couldn’t get in to post and distribute an announcement. So, we kept going without it. The release was published on the company’s online newsroom without... Read More
Is Media Relations Getting Harder?
Do you feel like media relations getting harder? Chances are you do, but you should know you are probably not alone. In fact, most PR professionals feel the same way. That’s according to a recent survey of communication professionals, which... Read More
