If you’ve never told a story while TV cameras roll or spoken with reporters face-to-face, you might find it intimidating to conduct an interview with the press. It’s easy to become tongue-tied, lose your focus or forget the key points you wanted to convey. Lack...
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Public relations is a wide-ranging field that involves many different practice areas. From promoting an event, to mitigating public scandals, to securing key opportunities and facilitating relationships – PR covers a lot of ground. Today, we would like to discuss one of the practice fields...
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently sat in front of Congress for a Senate Judiciary and Commerce Committee hearing, following the company’s recent privacy scandal. Perhaps affected by the intense interrogation, somehow Zuckerberg left a cheat sheet of the talking points he had prepared for the hearing...
Read moreFamous fashion designer Donna Karan and her fashion house DKNY have been under fire in recent weeks after the designer defended Harvey Weinstein amid allegations of his sexual misconduct. “It’s not Harvey Weinstein,” Karan said in an interview to The Daily Mail. “You look at everything...
Read moreThe short answer to this question is yes. The success of many modern businesses depends on how well they are able to communicate with the media and the public. Whether you are launching a new product, commenting on a newsworthy development or dealing with an exploding PR crisis,...
Read moreProfessional soccer player Emmanuel Adebayor raised a lot of eyebrows this Tuesday, when after signing his job contract with Crystal Palace, he admitted that he knew nothing about his new club and would be googling it to get more information. “I don’t know much about...
Read moreA week ago the San Francisco 49ers hired new head coach Jim Tomsula. Yahoo Sports Talk Live hosted an interview with the relatively unknown coach that served to introduce the new coach to the public. The interview, to say the least, was awkward. Tomsula answered the majority...
Read moreAge really is only a number when you know your stuff. Young anti-GMO (genetically modified organisms) activist Rachel Parent proved that when she gave a stellar interview performance on The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s show The Lang & O’Leary Exchange. Parent founded The Kids Right To...
Read moreIt is has been said (and written) that all publicity is good publicity. Not true. If you don’t agree, then just ask the next time you have the opportunity to talk with a disgraced political leader forced to resign for tweeting lewd pictures of himself. ...
Read moreRed Banyan Group Founder Evan Nierman recently delivered a speech on “The Media Revolution” to a 100-person crowd at the Tamarac Theatre of Performing Arts. The talk focused upon the ways that the media has evolved, the state of journalism today and in the future,...
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