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PR in Court: How to Protect your Firm During Client Lawsuits

You may want to think twice before sending that email to your crisis client. Recently, the Pennsylvania Superior Court ruled that a company’s correspondence with its public relations firm with regard to legal advice is not protected under attorney-client privilege,…

From a Past Intern…

Katie Dillon, a rising-senior at The George Washington University, was a member of the Buchanan internship program last summer. Katie is pursuing a double major in Women’s Studies and Journalism. We recently received this nice letter from her, which mentions…

Career Study at Buchanan PR: How It Impacted Me

– Gabby Guarnaccia High school is one of the most important times in a person’s life. It is full of learning new things, discovering yourself and experiencing new opportunities. As a senior this year, I have been pushed to try…

Three Reasons Your PR Firm Should Make Friends

It’s easy to see business as a zero-sum game, dominated by competition between firms to secure limited resources and the best clients. However, one of the most beneficial things you can do to inject new ideas and a fresh perspective…

PR Pros, It’s Time to Pay Up: #SubscribeToTruth

For those of us in the profession of public relations, the rise of fake news and the attacks on legitimate media outlets have been deeply disturbing. The Code of Ethics developed by our industry’s leading professional association, PRSA, calls out…

PR Lessons to Learn from United Airlines Crisis

As most of you already know, United Airlines recently suffered a self-made disaster that left us PR pros with nightmares. What started as damning footage surfacing of a man being violently dragged off a flight, snowballed into a highly-publicized crisis…

The Story of Buchanan Public Relations

Buchanan Public Relations works with well-known clients, top tier publications, and has over a dozen employees (plus two dogs!). But it wasn’t always this way, and the road was not always an easy one. President Anne Buchanan tells the story…

So You Got An Interview

I handle the internship and co-op programs here, and, especially for summer, I get hundreds of resumes for only two open positions. A few weeks ago, AC Lesley wrote a blog post about some major resume mistakes we see: Why…

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