PRSA Media Breakfast: Local News Radio, Feb. 17

By on February 8th, 2011 In Media, Pitching

The Phoenix chapter of PRSA is kicking off the 2011 Media Breakfast season off right – at the Arizona Biltmore. Our friends at the resort have been good enough to host our special event, which will cover all things RADIO. The interactive panel will feature members of the KFYI, KTAR, NPR and Arizona NewsRadio Networks [...]

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Pitch Me: Geri Koeppel

By on January 5th, 2011 In Pitching

Name: Geri Koeppel Title: Freelance writer Outlet: Phoenix Magazine, The Arizona Republic Phone: 480-897-0033 home office & 480-298-0958 mobile Email 1. What are your main daily duties? Writing food and drink articles and small business profiles. 2. What kinds of stories are you looking for? My two ever-present needs are suggestions for my Back of [...]

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Wikileaks and your content policy

By on December 27th, 2010 In Pitching, Social Media

Is ‘leaky’ information just a reality that organizations need to get used to in a web 2.0 world they operate in? How would you have handled a Wikileaks type situation in your organization?

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Keep me in the loop!

By on December 17th, 2010 In Pitching

Do you ever get frustrated when you find out about something your client is doing/selling or a fantastic human interest story and they never gave you the heads up? As PR professionals, it is obviously our job to be aware of what our clients do. But rarely are we sitting in their offices or storefront [...]

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Pitch Me: Nina Simmons

By on November 10th, 2010 In Pitching

Name: Nina Simmons Title: Community Manager Outlet: CenPho.com, IntheDale.net, and EastPHX.com all projects of Villageous LLC Phone: n/a Email 1. What are your main daily duties? In addition to managing social media campaigns for several clients, I also do the day to day postings for our community focused sites CenPho.com, IntheDale.net and EastPHX.com. We take [...]

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PR Nix

By on November 8th, 2010 In Pitching

I follow @MarkRaganCEO on Twitter and usually read many of the articles and blogs he tweets about. When I clicked on this  ”5 things PR should eliminate immediately. http://bit.ly/bHrPhg” I started to wonder if I agreed with the post and was interested in what our readers think should be eliminated from PR? The post states [...]

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