It's Friday! Peruse your Daily PR Brief - May 29, 2020
Read some of today's best PR and Comms industry news clips:
Your Guide to the Perfect Virtual Awards Ceremony ("What's HAppening" Blog - May 28, 2020)
Internal communications in a world without human interaction (PRmoment (UK) - May 28, 2020)
10 top tips for better online meetings (Media First (UK) - May 29, 2020)
Weber Shandwick Named North American Agency Of The Decade (PRovoke - May 29, 2020)
Take 5 with Matthew Della Croce (Cision - May 28, 2020)
5 Tips For A Successful Media Relations Strategy (Crenshaw Communications - May 28, 2020)
Interviewing for a PR job? Be ready to answer these 10 questions (Muck Rack - May 29, 2020)
4 ways OKCupid handles media relations during COVID-19 (PR Daily - May 28, 2020)
Amazon VNR Fiasco: Aiding Reporting or Crossing the Transparency Line? (O'Dwyer's - May 29, 2020)
During the Pandemic, PR Pros Find New Ways to Communicate (PR News - May 28, 2020)
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Your Guide to the Perfect Virtual Awards Ceremony
By Mark Pinsent, Managing Director, Hoffman Europe
"What's HAppening" Blog - May 28, 2020
How does one attend a virtual PR awards ceremonies like the one from PRovoke Media? Glad you asked, Mark Pinsent offers some tips to optimize the experience.
Internal communications in a world without human interaction
By Jonathan Jordan, Founder and Senior Partner at Sermelo
PRmoment (UK) - May 28, 2020
With so many people (all those who are able) working from home, the nature of office-based employment has fundamentally changed.
10 top tips for better online meetings
By James White
Media First (UK) - May 29, 2020
How are you managing with the move to online meetings? Are you finding that they are less focused?
Weber Shandwick Named North American Agency Of The Decade
PRovoke - May 29, 2020
Weber Shandwick was named North American Agency of the Decade ahead of six other firms at the 2020 North American SABRE Awards earlier today.
Take 5 with Matthew Della Croce
By Sarah Parker
Cision - May 28, 2020
It's five quick questions on PR, the state of the industry, and how it interconnects with everything else (like the evolving COVID-19 communications crisis), all with the brightest minds around. This time we're talking to Matthew Della Croce, Global President + Partner at Allison+Partners.
5 Tips For A Successful Media Relations Strategy
By Erica Schain
Crenshaw Communications - May 28, 2020
In a world of nonstop media, how can a PR professional cut through the noise to make a company's brand stand out? It often comes down to the right media strategy.
Interviewing for a PR job? Be ready to answer these 10 questions
By Emma Haddad
Muck Rack - May 29, 2020
If you craft and practice your responses to the following 10 PR questions, you'll be in great shape for your next job interview.
4 ways OKCupid handles media relations during COVID-19
By Beki Winchel
PR Daily - May 28, 2020
Michael Kaye, global communications manager for OKCupid, says the amount of the platform's members reporting that they've gone on a virtual date rose 473% in April, compared with March—and the trend is still growing.
Amazon VNR Fiasco: Aiding Reporting or Crossing the Transparency Line?
By Beth Andrix Monaghan
O'Dwyer's - May 29, 2020
Beth Andrix Monaghan This week, an Amazon VNR is being called propaganda. The segment about Amazon's safety measures around COVID-19 was timed in advance of a shareholder meeting. It ran in almost identical stories across a number of local TV stations where it looked like original reporting because the newscasters ran the b-roll and read from Amazon's script.
During the Pandemic, PR Pros Find New Ways to Communicate
By Seth Arenstein
PR News - May 28, 2020
Last weekend, there was more evidence of communicators' creativity. National Geographic Channel staged a viewing party for media and friends of the network.
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