I know, I know. I sensed the proverbial eye roll as soon as the word “millennial” was mentioned. Entitled, inexperienced, obsessed with selfies − millennials seem to be branded with this negative stigma. But, there are many young adults in…
I got eight hours of sleep last night. And I have Arianna Huffington to thank for it. Two nights ago, our entire team attended a World Affairs Council of Philadelphia event at which Arianna Huffington was the featured speaker. A…
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During the Middle Ages, craftsmen routinely employed young people as an inexpensive form of labor in exchange for food, lodging and formal training in a trade. Perhaps today’s interns don’t work for food, but it surely can feel as though we’ve returned to medieval times when it comes to the role of the apprenticeship, now known as the unpaid internship, in preparing new graduates for their futures.
The saying, “There’s no such thing as bad publicity” has been around since the invention of publicity itself (or maybe “time immemorial”?). But, is it a true statement? Can a company do whatever it wants and not suffer the consequences, simply because it garners the publicity the execs wanted in the first place?
For those who still believe in the power and magnificence of journalism, last week was a truly awful week.
It started, of course, with the downward spiral of Brian Williams’ career after it was confirmed that he had been telling an untruth about a news reporting incident in Iraq. The same day that Mr. Williams announced he was taking himself off the air, Jon Stewart announced he was stepping down as host of The Daily Show.
The week was far from over, though, and the losses still to come took the form of tragedy. Veteran reporter Bob Simon was killed in a car accident on Wednesday night. (This, after surviving 40 days of captivity 24 years ago in Iraq.) And then I awoke on Friday to the news that 
The New York Times’ esteemed media critic, David Carr – who only days earlier had written about Brian Williams – had died in the newsroom, after suffering an apparent heart attack. Later on Friday, former NBC foreign correspondent Ned Colt died of a stroke in Boston.
As public relations practitioners, we are masters of communication, regularly consulting our clients on what to say, how to say it and – in some cases – when to retract it. This week, venerable NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams is facing public scrutiny after repeatedly reporting a false story, whereby he claimed to narrowly escape enemy fire during the Iraq war.
Although I’m still a newbie in the world of public relations, there are several things I’ve already realized I will face throughout my career that will cause stress, panic, and probably even make me question my sanity. These are situations that PR professionals deal with on the regular. Allow these dogs to further explain.
I was the stereotypical college student who was quick with a joke or to light up your smoke, (not so much anymore in PA), and yes, you guessed correctly, I bartended my way through college. It was fun, it paid the bills and I learned a few things other than just how to make a dirty martini.
While my experiences bartending made for good life lessons in general, they are also – funnily enough – applicable to the world of PR.
As a recent graduate of Saint Joseph’s University and a newbie to the public relations industry, I often think about my time spent in college and how it prepared me for working in this field. While my classes and extracurricular activities provided a solid foundation, nothing helped prepare me more to work in the “real world” than my time as the features editor of The Hawk, my alma mater’s campus newspaper.