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If you search ‘Native American PR pioneers,’ you will be hard-pressed to find one name, let alone a list. Not because there haven’t been Native Americans who excelled in PR, but because most never held a traditional PR title. But suppose you are willing to dig a bit deeper and look at PR not as a title but as a role or a mission. In that case, you will find that there are many Native Americans who not only practiced PR, but helped shape the world through the spoken and written word.

It’s hard enough to get media placement for a launch, initiative or campaign. Indeed, obtaining “coverage in the new news cycle” and “finding relevant angles for pitches” are PR pros’ biggest concerns, according to a Muckrack report. Let’s add another hurdle: getting coverage in a crowded media landscape when your organization or product is perceived as dry or unsexy.

With the holidays coming, B2Cs are looking to interact with core audiences on social. A slight surprise: the number of posts year-over-year was down 8 percent, yet a far larger surprise was the considerable fall in actions, or consumer engagement, off 35 percent year-over year (YOY.

Recruitment and retention of top talent was an issue for PR long before the pandemic struck. For years, firms and in-house teams competed for employees using salary, upward mobility, health benefits and other perks, such as paid time off and summer Fridays.Things are different now.

In some ways, this year’s global observance of Communication Measurement Month should be a bigger celebration than normal. After all, considering the nearly two-year-old pandemic, any excuse for celebration is welcome. On the other hand, there are reasons not to celebrate. We surveyed the industry to find out their sentiments.

What’s the next big thing for communications research and evaluation? It’s a good question to ponder as we celebrate Measurement Month.

PRNEWS Live welcomed Carly Schildhaus, Senior Manager of Public Affairs, National Confectioners Association. Schildhaus discussed how the candy industry is approaches Halloween, as well as important candy corn statistics.

Feeling uninspired this Halloween? The PRNEWS team has you covered with scary PR-related costume ideas, or at the very least, tales to tell around the campfire.

The 2022 Agency Elite Top 100 is finally here! And, to celebrate the most innovative PR and communications firms in the business, we’re bringing you Q&A’s from the best and brightest. Next in our spotlight… Continued

In this brief Q&A, we talk to Sarah Brown, Director, Corporate Media Relations at Marriott International., about some opportunities and challenges in training spokespeople at an organization.