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11 unusual facts about public relations


Alexandra Slate

Stylus stated the record achieved poor sales in the absence of a concentrated PR push, and added that had it been released a year later it may have been more successful, as by that time Hollywood Records were promoting most of their new artists on Radio Disney.

Aliona Doletskaya

In the early 90s changed the field of activity in the educational sphere, the sphere of media and PR.

Christmas Cupid

Sloane Spencer is a publicist in Los Angeles, California planning the Snow Angel movie premiere on Christmas day for her client Caitlin Quinn.

Chuck Allie

Chuck Allie Gepaya (born at June 2, 1988 in Making, Parang, Maguindanao) is a Filipino actor and current PR Specialist of TV5.

Eschel Rhoodie

Eschel Mostert Rhoodie (1933 – 17 July 1993) was a South African civil servant, public relations man and spin doctor most famous as being one of the key players in the 1978-79 Information Scandal, also known as "Infogate" or "Muldergate".

Giorgi Arveladze

He was put in charge of President Saakashvili's PR campaign of January 5 Georgian presidential election.

Homosexuality in English football

Public relations mogul Max Clifford claimed that two major clubs had approached him wishing to portray a "straight" image.

Public image

Public relations, maintaining a desirable public image for high-profile people and organizations

Public relations

Still, Edelman's 2003 semi-annual trust survey found that only 20 percent of survey respondents from the public believed paid communicators within a company were credible.

Some of the modern era's larger international agencies like Edelman, Hill & Knowlton and Burson-Marsteller were founded and began competing internationally.

Wheel Squad

Some of these plans include purchasing low-quality paint and secretly re-selling it when Mr. Rotter tells him to throw it away, thinking nobody wants to buy it however the plan meets an obstacle when Emilie, knowing Johnny needs some paint for a school display, suggest Mr. Rotter to donate it in order to improve his public image.


1906 Atlantic City train wreck

The accident resulted in what is regarded as the first press release when public relations expert Ivy Lee, working with the Pennsylvania Railroad, parent company of the West Jersey and Seashore Railroad, convinced the company to present a statement to journalists at the scene of the accident.

1984 Summer Olympics torch relay

The Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee (LAOOC) tasked Burson-Marsteller, the public relations agency of AT&T, with the organisation of the relay.

Balcombe

Cuadrilla Resources, the company that proposes to drill the well, engaged in public relations efforts attempting to convince villagers that the project was both useful and safe.

Charles Eade

Outside his editorial roles, Eade was an early radio sports commentator from 1932 to 1938, while during World War II he was public relations advisor to Louis Mountbatten.

Covert listening device

In 2003, Alastair Campbell (who was Director of Communications and Strategy from 1997-2003 for the UK PM) in his memoirs The Blair Years: The Alastair Campbell Diaries alleged that two bugs were discovered in the hotel room meant for visiting British PM Tony Blair planted by Indian intelligence agencies.

Errol Cockfield, Jr.

In 2013, Cockfield was working as Vice President of crisis and issues at public relations firm Edelman New York when he was reported to be representing Peter Lanza, father of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting perpetrator Adam Lanza.

Fenton Communications

Fenton Communications is a public relations firm that was founded by David Fenton in 1982.

Gordon C. James

Gordon C. James is a Phoenix, Arizona-based public relations professional, government affairs consultant and independent presidential advance contractor with links to the Republican Party and Bush family.

Graham Goodkind

He took up the offer of work experience at Lynne Franks PR in December 1989 and instantly fell in love with the world of public relations.

Guto Harri

After leaving the BBC at the end of 2007, he was approached to work for Conservative Party leader David Cameron, but joined London public relations agency Fleishman-Hillard as a Senior Policy Advisor, spending four weeks as an adviser to Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai.

Hammerkit

Hammerkit now specialises in the creation of web formats for the global public relations industry serving clients such as Edelman and Hill+Knowlton Strategies.

Institutional economics

In The New Industrial State Galbraith argues that economic decisions are planned by a private bureaucracy, a technostructure of experts who manipulate is marketing and public relations channels.

Invasion of the Bane

Wormwood subdues her by revealing her true form, and having discovered Kelsey and Sarah Jane live on the same street, uses her PR representative Davey (Jamie Davis) to escort her home.

James C. Oberwetter

Prior to his diplomatic service Oberwetter served as Senior Vice President of Hunt Oil Company, of Dallas, Texas where he directed the company's public affairs and government relations functions.

Kaleidoscope Festival, Sophia College

Some of the teams include Public Relations, Performing Arts, Informals, Pre-K, Fundamentals, Marketing, Photography, Literary Arts, etc. and are managed by a small group of students called the Executive Community Coordinators - usually a group of three to four Third Year students.

KWHT

Ron Arp, now the general manager of the Portland, Oregon office of a public relations company known as Fleishman-Hillard, was a news broadcaster at KWHT in the mid-1980s.

Millbank

In British politics, the term 'Millbank Machine' or 'Millbank tendency' (a play on 'Militant tendency') has been linked with the activities of spin doctors.

Mohamed Toihiri

Outside of his academic career, he has worked for Sony and TDK as Director for Public Relations, in Paris.

Perrin Kaplan

Before leaving Nintendo, Perrin Kaplan oversaw public relations, government affairs, investor relations and internal communications for the Western Hemisphere and played a key role in global coordination inside the Nintendo corporation.

PowerMark Group

PowerMark is a privately owned, technology marketing and public relations company headquartered in San Juan Capistrano, California.

Ras Mubarak

He holds a diploma in Public Relations and a postgraduate diploma in International Development Studies from the University of Oslo Summer School.

Robin Dixon, 3rd Baron Glentoran

Dixon retired from the army in 1966 with the rank of Major and went on to work for Kodak in their public relations department and in 1971 joined the Northern Irish business, Redland Tile and Brick Ltd, which he built up into a multi-million pound subsidiary of Redland plc and became Managing Director.

Ronald Bassett

In 1956, Bassett went to work for Smith, Kline & French Laboratories Ltd. as a public relations officer, and remained with them until 1966.

Rosie Cooper

Cooper originally worked for a company called W. Cooper Ltd 1973-1980 before joining Littlewoods initially as a buyer, when in 1994 she became the public relations manager and then, in 1995, the group corporate communications manager.

Scott Cutlip

Scott Munson Cutlip (July 15, 1915 in Buckhannon, West Virginia - August 18, 2000 in Madison, Wisconsin) was a pioneer in public relations education.

Shared Values Initiative

The Shared Values Initiative was a public relations campaign created by the U.S. State Department and directed by Charlotte Beers, a former Madison Avenue advertising executive, to persuade viewers to be more aware, open and accepting of America by dispelling myths about the treatment of Muslims.

Stan Marks

Back in Australia, Stan Marks became Public Relations and Publicity Supervisor for the Australian Broadcasting Commission, looking after television, radio and concerts, including publicity for Isaac Stern, Yehudi Menuhin, Igor Stravinsky, Daniel Barenboim, Maureen Forrester and international orchestras for Radio Australia and the magazine TVTimes.

The Fall of Kelvin Walker: A Fable of the Sixties

Kelvin, freed from his strict Calvinist upbringing through discovering Nietzsche and 'the divine Ingersoll' in the library of his home town of Glaik, travels to swinging-sixties London to succeed as a television interviewer and newspaper columnist through nothing more than his aptitude for spin and a diabolical will to power, only to return, chastened, to Scotland and to God.

Thomas G. Osenton

Osenton was press chief for ice hockey at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, and directed the press operations for the tournament that resulted in the 1980 U.S. Hockey team's Gold medal Miracle on Ice.

Tom Cruise Purple

American lawyer Lisa Bloom commented that it would not be prudent for Cruise to sue over the product, and public relations writer Howard Bragman stated it was not a good idea from a legal standpoint to utilize Cruise's image in such a fashion.

University of International and Public Relations Prague

The University of International and Public Relations Prague (in Czech: Vysoká škola mezinárodních a veřejných vztahů Praha) is a private university in Prague, specializing in bachelors and masters degrees in international and public relations.

USFI

Initially specializing in the design and production of printed items, USFI has grown to become a provider of marketing, advertising and public relations services, and is responsible for strategic planning, messaging and media selection to execution and delivery of ad campaigns, brochures, product design and packaging, catalogs, social media campaigns and SEO and SEM services.

What to Do in Case of Fire?

A rift within the police department makes their plan possible: Manowsky (Klaus Löwitsch), an old-school Berlin cop, wants to use aggressive tactics and avoid press coverage, while Henkel (Devid Striesow), a technocrat from Bonn, prefers more modern, less intrusive methods and is eager to earn good public relations for the department.

World Business

World Business was cancelled after it was revealed that the show's production company was doubling as a public relations firm for Malaysian politicians, including Sarawak Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud.