Keys for Media Relations for Every Public Relations Professional
This book will help prepare PR practitioners for survival and success in working with journalists and the news media. This book is an essential part of a PR practitioner's basic training manual for addressing the challenges of news media coverage (or lack thereof).
Included in the book are contributions and interviews with seasoned Public Relations subject matter experts who share their experience-based insights into how to enact effective media relations. This book also includes contributions from some of the leading Public Relations scholars in the world today. Finally, this book also includes contributions from several journalists and prominent professors of journalism to offer a rare insight from "the other perspective" that far too many PR students and PR practitioners have not taken the time to contemplate. Readers may also want to seek out additional training for media relations and working with the media including professionally overseen simulation activities where the PR practitioner is asked sample questions in front of rolling cameras and pressed by persistent queries of reporters followed by skillful debriefing to improve their performance.

This book provides an executive overview of the field of public relations with a focus on what managers need to know to master the function quickly and effectively. The authors bring to bear on the topic of public relations management our research and academic knowledge in the areas of business management and strategy, mass communication, marketing, public relations, organizational communication, journalism, ethics, and public opinion along with years of professional experience in managing public relations. Throughout the text, we integrate the academic with the professional by asking: How can an executive use this knowledge to make the most of the public relations function, department, and initiatives in order to help their whole organization be successful?

Winner of the 2011 National Communication Association PRIDE Best Textbook Award, given by the PR Division.Contemporary public relations practice has developed over the last several decades from the weak third sister in marketing, advertising, and public relations mix to a full player. Part of that development can be traced to a change in the way that public relations is researched, measured, and evaluated. Both Drs. Stacks and Michaelson are members of that Commission and have been in the forefront of taking public relations research, measurement, and evaluation to the next level. This book will provide the business reader with the necessary understanding of the problems and promises of public relations research, measurement, and evaluation and the public relations practitioner as guide to effective use of methods, measures, and evaluation in providing grounded evidence of the success (or failure) of public relations campaigns.

Successful Spokesperson Are Made, Not Born is an expanded edition of the original book published in 2000, adding instructor teaching guides, sample speech openings and new anecdotes to the basic techniques from the first edition. The expanded edition has also been published in Chinese by Peking University Press, Beijing. ISBN: 978-1-4259-8648-3 Order, paperback, from: AuthorHouse, Amazon, Google or major book store chains. Blog Posting - Media Interview Check List ("Successful Spokespersons." Appendix)

Media strategist and award-winning journalist David E. Henderson reveals how to navigate today s complex and evolving traditional and online media environments. As new and not-so-new ways of communication collide, it is imperative to maximize an organization s voice and awareness, all with the intent to better connect with audiences.

The online democratization of mass communications is redefining how people connect, businesses work, and governments run. It s a new world business matrix and model. Organizations of all sizes can simply bypass mainstream media to communicate their news, in the way they choose directly to their audience. In the Internet era, the status quo is no longer in the scramble for competitive leadership. It is an ever-changing landscape that can adapt to the needs of the marketplace and the audience instantaneously.

For top executives, leaders, communications professionals and managers, "Making News in the Digital Era" makes sense of the merging old and new media, and delivers practical ways to communicate in our competitive world.

Praise for David E. Henderson:

David Henderson gets it. He knows the online media world and has interesting things to say. Besides, he's the dude who got me on Twitter. Rainn Wilson, actor and creator of SoulPancake.com.

Among the attributes of leadership, the ability to communicate clearly has never been more important than it is today. If you want to become a more effective communicator, David Henderson has the experience and the skills to help. Dan Rather, renowned news anchor and journalist.

The ideal team to improve an organization s communications would have a seasoned network newsman, a successful PR executive, someone with experience in the mainstream media and someone else with expertise in the digital revolution. That team is David Henderson. No one can help you make news in the digital era like he can. Greg Dobbs, veteran ABC News and HDNet television news correspondent.

I m a huge David Henderson fan because he is a success both as an award-winning journalist and as a media-relations pro responsible for stunning successes in generating massive media attention. Making News in the Digital Era is important because you ll learn from someone who knows both sides. Forget the self-proclaimed gurus and pretenders, Henderson is the real deal. David Meerman Scott, bestselling author of The New Rules of Marketing & PR and World Wide Rave.

Next to the AP Style Guide, the "Media Relations Handbook" is arguably the most valuable reference available for any public affairs officer, press secretary or Beltway PR professional.

The "Media Relations Handbook" is required reading for Capitol Hill press secretaries, federal agency public affairs officers, political campaign spin doctors, nonprofit PR professionals, lobbyists or anyone involved in garnering media coverage. In this Handbook, Bradford Fitch explores theory and practice, discussing general principles and illustrating each point with real-life examples.

This book is for those who are seeking the most effective means to communicate on behalf of a government agency, a national association or nonprofit, or an elected official. It will help you channel your hot passion with the cool guidance that has been gleaned through others' experience.

The author professes no unique insight into media relations in public affairs. Rather, this book is an amalgamation of the collective wisdom of hundreds of public relations professionals in the worlds of government and politics. It is an overview of the ideas that have become the accepted rules of communications in Washington, presented in one volume.

" T]his book will be of value to students and professionals of political communications and public relations. Summing up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduate through professional collections."
-- CHOICE

"Although targeted for new media relations staff or ones starting a new press office, even the most experienced public information officer can learn from this book."
-- Gene Rose, Director of Public Affairs, NCSL, in State Legislatures magazine

"Offers a wealth of practical advice on public relations that will be of benefit to governmental and non-governmental organizations alike."
-- Municipal World

A rich 'how-to' lesson for pros and for novices who must negotiate the competitive landscape of America's new media."
-- Ann Compton, White House Correspondent, ABC News

Summary Table of Contents
Introduction
Foreword
Ch. 1 First Steps
Ch. 2 Tools of the Craft
Ch. 3 Developing a Message and Communications Plan
Ch. 4 Interacting with Reporters
Ch. 5 Overview of the Media: Print, Radio, and TV
Ch. 6 Web-Based and Online Communications
Ch. 7 Dealing With the Principal
Ch. 8 Interview Preparation
Ch. 9 Internal Issues: Experts, Policy, Numbers, Leaks, Lawyers and Language
Ch. 10 How to Interact with Congressional Campaign Operations
Ch. 11 Communications in a Federal Agency
Ch. 12 Crisis Communications in Public Affairs
Ch. 13 Ethics in Public Affairs
Appendices
Glossary
Epilogue
Index

Complete Table of Contents online at www.MediaRelationsHandbook.com

With the media's increasing weight on public opinion, a positive public image has become an integral part of management and a vital factor in business success-especially in the fashion industry. This textbook will deliver a practical approach to the world of public relations and image management, with in-depth case studies featuring prominent apparel and textile companies. Concentrating on the pragmatic aspects of public relations and the fundamentals of fashion public relations, principles and concepts are placed in context of what the student will actually do in the business world. Students will be equipped with the real-world approaches and techniques for a successful career in fashion public relations. Features: -- Case studies featuring elements of a public relations campaign for well-known companies -- Interviews with successful public relations managers discussing how s/he applied the principles of the chapter discussed and the results -- Real-life simulations of problems which managers interviewed for the case studies have encountered, and approaches on how they solved them -- In-class exercises, where students can pair up and practice the public relations principles discussed in the chapter -- Instructor's Guide provides suggestions for planning the course and using the text in the classroom -- PowerPoint(r) Presentation provides outlines and ideas for lectures; compatible with PC and Mac platforms

Throughout the pages of Celebrity Leverage, you'll discover creative strategies for getting your products in celebrities' hands, getting low-cost and free celebrity endorsements, linking your business, product or service to celebrities in other ways, and even making yourself into a celebrity in your field. All of these strategies are what I collectively call "Celebrity Leverage." This book is divided into two parts. The first, "Making Your Business Famous," shows you how to get other celebrities to promote your business, your products, and your services. The second section of Celebrity Leverage, "Making Yourself Famous," reveals how to turn yourself into a celebrity in your area, your niche and your field. Along with insider secrets from myself, you'll also hear advice from some of today's top marketing and publicity experts like Susan Berkley, Alex Carroll, Jeff Crilley, Donna Cutting, Mike Esterman, Brian Patrick Flynn, Rick Frishman, Drew Gerber, Jake Halpern, Bill & Steve Harrison, Susan Harrow, Paul Hartunian, Craig Hirschfeld, Dan Janal, Gavin Keilly, Dan Kennedy, John Kremer, Rebecca Lightsey, Ann McIndoo, Brian Reich, Rhonda Rees, Nick Romer, Penny Sansevieri, Yanik Silver, Robyn Spizman, Joan Stewart, Amy Stumpf, Joe Vitale and more.

KEY BENEFIT "Marketing Public Relations" breaks from the norm by presenting public relations using a marketing, rather than a communications studies or journalism, approach. This text recognizes the similarities between PR, word-of-mouth, and social networking media and creates a framework for constructing marketing strategies that incorporate these highly credible and cost-effective tools.
KEY TOPICS An Introduction to Marketing Public Relations; Marketing Public Relations and the Marketing Communications Mix; Marketing Public Relations and the Organization it Serves; The MPR Framework - Objectives, Target, Connectors, Message & Measure; About the Media; Non-Media Connectors and Word-of-Mouth; Building a Connectors List; The Press Kit and Press Release; Selling the Story; Social Media; Events; Experts and Interviews; Crisis Management; Planning and Measuring
MARKET For readers interested in learning the theory and then how to apply it, in order to "do Marketing Public Relations" in the real world.

"PR Strategy and Application" is a comprehensive and accessible text that situates Public Relations in a 21st century context; as a set of tools not just for corporations but for the activist, the diplomat, the crisis manager, the homeland security officer, as well as the advertising executive and the reputation manager. Winner of the 2010 PRIDE award given by the PR Division of the National Communication Association

Gives detailed treatment of how activists have used public relations including a consideration of how activists have been important to the historical develop of PR

Argues for a move away from a corporate-centric view of public relations and for public relations to be seen as the management of mutually-influential relationships

Emphasizes the importance of stakeholder expectations in shaping organizational actions and being a foundation for discussions between organizations and stakeholders

Emphasizes the perspective that stakeholders and organizations are linked together in a complex networks rather that a series of separate relationshipsAccompanying website includes chapter outlines, a test bank, PowerPoint slides, and useful links for students and teachers

Visit the further resources website for student and instructor materials at www.wiley.com/go/coombs

Great leaders are made, not born. Just as effective C.E.O.s and politicians can learn the nuts and bolts of their positions by learning from others, so too can effective leaders apply a proven set of skills to the task of learning effective leadership techniques from the pages of history. Filled with examples and analysis from the canons of science, philosophy, literature, and religion, with application in military, political, and issue management campaigns, THE MAXIMS OF POLITICS identifies the 10 rules-to-lead-by that every leader should know. Developed and proven through a career in issue management that has spanned more than 20 years, Tom Mullikin's THE MAXIMS OF POLITICS can help a leader navigate the treacherous and as yet unchartered landscape of the emerging global marketplace. Much is expected from today's leaders. The issues are of great consequence: international trade, energy solutions, and global climate change. The THE MAXIMS OF POLITICS will enable tomorrow's leaders to rise to these new challenges.

Move business forward and drag Top Management along with you Al Ries' best selling book, The Fall of Advertising and the Rise of PR, shook the advertising industry to the bone. The advertising world was outraged. When Ries argued that advertising just wasn't working any more, he had struck a nerve. Advertising was simply not changing with the times. Half a decade later, things have come full circle. PR is now finding its credibility in the intensive care unit. Stefan Engeseth gives the PR business the same treatment. The Fall of PR & the Rise of Advertising, with a foreword by Al Ries, analyses the enormous changes in the media landscape in PR, advertising and everything in between. Stefan Engeseth's books, Detective Marketing and ONE, have firmly established him as one of today's most refreshing business thinkers. In his latest book, The Fall of PR & the Rise of Advertising, he shows how advertising has redefined itself and re-emerged as a force to be reckoned with. Written in his trade mark, funny, original and provocative style, the book adds whole new dimensions to the business world.

The world's most widely used and seminal introduction to public relations--now fully revised and updated for the 21st century with online strategies that work

Every Fortune 500 corporation, movie star, and scandal queen knows that a good publicist is essential to building success and maintaining public support. But if you're a small business owner, an entrepreneur, or an undercapitalized beginner seeking an edge in a highly competitive arena, it's unlikely that you have your own high-powered publicist.

"Guerrilla P.R. 2.0" offers all the resources necessary to mount your own campaign and get the media exposure you need. In clear and concise language, Michael Levine, one of the top public relations counselors in the country, reveals the same procedures he uses every day to get press on major stars--and how those strategies can be utilized on little or no budget. You'll learn how to think like a publicist and map out the perfect strategy for success.

Expanding on the theoretical framework for studying and practicing public relations around the world, The Global Public Relations Handbook, Revised and Expanded Edition extends the discussion in the first volume on the history, development, and current status of the public relations industry from a global perspective. This revised edition offers twenty new chapters in addition to the original contents. It includes fourteen additional country- or regionally-focused chapters exploring public relations practice in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Contributors use a theoretical framework to present information on the public relations industry in their countries and regions. They also focus on such factors as the status of public relations education in their respective countries and professionalism and ethics. Each country-specific chapter includes a case study typifying public relations practice in that country. Additional new chapters discuss political economy, activism, international public relations, and United Nations public affairs.

Great leaders are made, not born. Just as effective C.E.O.s and politicians can learn the nuts and bolts of their positions by learning from others, so too can effective leaders apply a proven set of skills to the task of learning effective leadership techniques from the pages of history. Filled with examples and analysis from the canons of science, philosophy, literature, and religion, with application in military, political, and issue management campaigns, THE MAXIMS OF POLITICS identifies the 10 rules-to-lead-by that every leader should know. Developed and proven through a career in issue management that has spanned more than 20 years, Tom Mullikin's THE MAXIMS OF POLITICS can help a leader navigate the treacherous and as yet unchartered landscape of the emerging global marketplace. Much is expected from today's leaders. The issues are of great consequence: international trade, energy solutions, and global climate change. The THE MAXIMS OF POLITICS will enable tomorrow's leaders to rise to these new challenges.

What critics say about ..". Geese vs. Swans..." ..". corporate America is being denied the potential benefits of public relations, of which they may be unaware, because of the travesties committed in its name by communicators who euphemistically see themselves as counselors, arousing the ire of a wise and experienced John Budd who challenges CEOs to raise the bar on advisors, introducing the role of corporate public diplomacy." Chester Burger, founder/chairman, PRSA's College of Fellows*; Founder/chairman, Chester Burger Co. "In crisp and forceful and pungent language John Budd contrasts the proper goals of the craft of PR with the realities of current performance... and urges communication consigliores to change their ways and avoid even the appearance of spin... but he's not sanguine this is either feasible or possible." Robert Hogan, former chairman, psychology department, University of Tulsa; author of Personality and the Fate of Organizations "This brief book is bold, iconoclastic, and on the mark. Budd chronicles and critiques the devolution of forward-looking public relations counseling to its present response-to-daily polls marketing and post-factum spin doctoring. He does so with verve and with wisdom gained from his life-long practice in the trenches." Robert Jackall, sociologist, Williams College; author of Moral Mazes, The World of Corporate Managers and Image Makers "As always from John Budd, sensible, smart advice, crisply presented. Thoughtful but easy to read - and enjoyable." Dr. Charles Elson, director, Corporate Governance, University of Delaware "Our corporate Socrates is back... this time encouraging communicators to abandon the folly of being PR counselors and focus on promoting and marketing which they do extremely well... simultaneously charging CEOs to find the intellectual advisors needed to better cope with the myriad threats to their credibility by a host of so-called soft factors." John D. Bergen, senior vice president, Siemens; ex-founded/CEO, The Council of Public Relations Firms *Public Relations Society of America

This fun and friendly book looks at real-life PR stunts that will blow your mind and inspire you to develop innovative and creative ways to get your company noticed. PR guru Peter Shankman chronicles the most ridiculous, outrageous, and possibly crazy PR stunts of all time--explaining why some work and others don't. This is a funny, insightful guide to winning the PR game.

At a time when more and more people are becoming activists, this thoroughly revised and updated edition of "Making the News" explains how to generate news coverage of any important issue or nonprofit cause - and to do so within a reasonable budget. Based on interviews with professional journalists and media-savvy activists, this easy-to-use handbook describes how to stage media events, write distinctive news releases, contact reporters, deliver soundbites, and much more. Now including the latest information about online media coverage - including news Web sites, viral e-mail, and more - this new edition will also insure a media edge in the Internet age. The handbook's expanded sections on aggressive tactics, including extensive tips on how to create newsworthy visual imagery, provides everything needed to transform standard media events into spectacles that reporters won't ignore.

Making News: A Straight-Shooting Guide to Media Relations is an insider's look at today's changing news media with essential tips for: How to ensure your story will be chosen as today's news How to gain credibility and achieve effective coverage How to better communicate with reporters, editors and producers How to use media coverage to build a distinctive brand image Making News reveals the latest techniques on how to make news and control your message through the news media - whether for your organization, your client or yourself - in today's highly competitive world. Veteran public relations executive, Emmy Award-winning former CBS News correspondent and author David Henderson delivers valuable inside tips, stories and perspective from his own experience and the exclusive perspective from over 100 leading journalists in the United States and Britain. Making News provides a deeper understanding of how the news business functions, how journalists judge the value of a legitimate story and how you can communicate with the media to achieve outstanding results. PRAISE FOR DAVID HENDERSON "Public relations is never as easy as it looks. So you are lucky to be reading this book, for few know PR as well as David Henderson. A skilled correspondent and a gifted man, David knows both sides of the process of delivering a message." -Harry Smith CBS News "Great advice and a much-needed reality check for anyone who works with the media. Follow David's guidelines and save yourself a lot of time and energy" -Jean Cochran National Public Radio "David Henderson has worked both sides of the street-as a reporter and an advocate. He has that double advantage of knowing a story and knowing how to sell it." -Richard Serrano Los Angeles Times There are so many mediocre books on media relations, that it's a true pleasure to come across one that lives up to the claim on its cover. David Henderson's publisher bills Making News a "straight-shooting guide to media relations" and the book delivers. -Paul Holmes, The Holmes Report

NEW IN PAPERBACK! 'This handbook provides a comprehensive examination and review of the theory, academic research, and professional practices of the public relations discipline. Ninety leading scholars and practitioners from around the world provide insights into the historical and changing role of public relations in building relationships with "organizations, markets, audiences and publics"...The extensive bibliography includes more than 2000 references, some multidisciplinary, which serve to enhance understanding of public relations. The detailed index is user-friendly.A must for academic collections serving scholars, practitioners and students, upper-level undergraduate and graduate' - Choice The Handbook of Public Relations is a comprehensive and detailed examination of the field, it synthesizes current literature and is divided into five sections: Part One defines the field, explaining the role of public relations in society; Part Two examines the state of the practice by looking at cutting-edge issues in management, ethics, gender, evaluation, public relations, education and media; Part Three challenges academics and practitioners to identify best practices; Part Four looks at the challenges raised by new communication technologies; Part Five takes a global view, examining theories in international public relations and the trends in practice that will shape the field in the coming years.

About the Book Public relations is an art based on a science: psychology. PR can powerfully influence buying behavior and impact the bottom line of any company-even those with limited budgets. But many PR professionals and their clients fail to mine PR's full potential. Now they can-with MINDS BEFORE MARKET SHARE: THE ART OF PUBLIC RELATIONS.With frank talk and indisputable logic, Wayne E. Pollard explains: Why many pros go about the PR process backwards Why less is often more when it comes to media outreach How PR can serve as the ultimate sales force multiplier (SFM) How PR acts as "the great equalizer" Why public relations is a secret weapon, equivalent to military PSYOP Why PR should never focus on boasting or client ego-building but rather on eating away at a competitor's market How a PR campaign's success should be judged MINDS BEFORE MARKET SHARE: THE ART OF PUBLIC RELATIONS will give readers a new appreciation for the PR process, and map a bold new approach for anyone determining public relations strategy.