Ethics in the field of Public Relations Public Relations (PR) is a growing field today. Many people view the profession as unethical‚ because its goal is to influence public opinion. Just a few unethical people can tarnish an image of a whole field. One of the first people to use PR techniques was P. T. Barnum. For example‚ he created a birth certificate for a woman who was claiming to have been George Washington ’s personal nurse. This would have made the woman over 160 years old. People like P
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Anderson Reflection Paper 2 Comm 100 November 11‚ 2012 Since the development of public relations in the 1920s‚ its popularity and significance in the world has grown immensely. Public relations opened up a new way of creating an understanding for a companies‚ people and products‚ much different than had been known through advertising. While advertising is a one-way form of communication that costs money‚ public relations is a two-way communication system that is free and cannot control what people
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fundamental to the public relations process? Give examples of different research techniques which may be applied to obtain a variety of information in public relations planning. Research is a fundamental part of the public relations process‚ and can be undertaken at any or all stages of the public relations process depending on the questions asked and the answers to be obtained (Johnston and Zawawi‚ 2004). It has been indicated by James Grunig in Macnamara’s Research in Public Relations: A review of
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The functions of Public Relations (PR) can be grouped into two loose categories: organizational and societal. Many viewpoints of the functions fall into both categories and are not mutually limited. The scope of organizational functions of PR involves actions concerning the company‚ and societal functions of PR interests ’ activities regarding society. Organizational functions of PR are activities that interact with or affect organizations while societal functions of PR have to do with actions that
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Public Relations Paper Public relations means many different things to many different individuals‚ businesses‚ and marketing firms. The true definition of public relations will be determined based on the nature of the work being done and the targeted group for a company to provide its goods and services to. In this paper‚ a personal definition of public relations will be given. In addition‚ three extra definitions of public relations will be presented. A thorough comparison of those definitions
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with sports has forced public relations into this area of interest. Sports are stimulated by sports public relations‚ sports marketing‚ sports information and sports promotion. Sports marketing’s primary goal is to ensure that sports are profitable while sports public relation’s objective is to establish and maintain long term relationships with sports teams‚ sport professionals and sport organizations‚ with their publics (Hopwood‚ Kitchin‚ Skinner‚ 2010). Sports public relations is also used to maintain
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Introduction Public relations is all around us. Most people can hardly make it through a day without encountering it in some shape or form. There are billboards‚ the Internet‚ e-mails‚ and news agencies‚ which are used by companies and organizations to convey their messages to the public. Before progressing any further‚ just what is public relations? How is public relations defined? This paper will discuss public relations and its definitions from three different sources. Personal Definition
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following paper is about defining public relations. My personal definition and three other definitions of public relations will be compared and contrasted. There are many different definitions of public relations and the reason will be addressed in the following as well. Public relation is important in the marketing world and important for a company to be successful in providing positive public relations. Personal Definition My personal definition of public relations is that while marketing a company
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There is a plethora of definitions when it comes to describing public relations. According to www.prsa.org‚ “Public relations is a strategic communication process that builds mutually beneficial relationships between organizations and their publics.” Public relations deals with planning. Planning for the promotion of goods‚ services and the images of organizations in the eyes of the public. Public relations professionals work to build long-term relationships among individuals and institutions.
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Functions of Public Relations MKT 438 Michael Raasch Functions of Public Relations An organizations image and reputation are dependent on the publics’ opinion. The goal of public relations is to be the communicator between an organization and its public. Public relations is a‚ “planned process to influence public opinion‚ through sound character and proper performance‚ bases on mutually satisfactory two way communication” (Seitel‚ p. 4). The role of public relations serves as a communicator
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