This Is Pr: The Realities of Public Relations - Hardcover

Newsom, Doug; Scott, Alan; Turk, Judy VanSlyke

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0534172628 ISBN 13: 9780534172626

Publisher: Wadsworth Pub Co, 1993

Synopsis

In addition to current information drawn from public relations campaigns, public relations agencies and the news, this new edition features coverage of public relations research, theory, ethics, law, tactics and channels. The text also contains examples of successful public relations campaigns and cases and illustrations depicting public relations in action.

About this title

About the Author:

Doug Newsom, Ph.D., APR and Fellow Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) is a Texas Christian University professor emerita of The Schieffer School of Journalism and the senior co-author of THIS IS PR AND PUBLIC RELATIONS WRITING. She also is the co-author of three other books and the author of another two, as well as the author of four current book chapters. She is former member of the Commission on Public Relations Education, former chair of PRSA's College of Fellows and is a past chair of the Accrediting Committee for the Accrediting Council on Education for Journalism and Mass Communications. She has been president of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Southwest Education Council for Journalism and Mass Communication, Texas Public Relations Association, and both the Dallas and Fort Worth chapters of PRSA. Dr. Newsom has been national faculty advisor to PRSSA. She has been head of the PR Division of AEJMC and served as chair of its former division heads. Awards include the Institute for Public Relations' Pathfinder, PRSA Outstanding Educator, Public Relations Foundation of Texas's Educator of the Year Award, Texas Public Relations Association's Golden Spur, the Association for Women in Communications Headliner, and in 2010 she was named to the Hall of Excellence of TCU's Schieffer School of Journalism. She has served Fulbright teaching appointments in India and Singapore; given workshops in South Africa, Hungary, Bulgaria, Poland and Vanuatu; and taught in Latvia and England. She has been chair of the Fulbright discipline committee, served 18 years on a gas research institute's advisory council and was one of the first women elected to the board of a publicly held company, she was the first woman elected to the board of ONEOK where she served 24 years until reaching mandatory retirement age. Currently, her volunteer public relations work is for Rotary International.

Review:

"I respect this book a great deal. There is a lot of good information and integration of good concepts and theory that I find appealing. The international focus woven throughout the book is an appealing concept as well, and the language usage is very appropriate for the level of my students."

"Overall, 'This is PR' is a thoroughly researched and well-written text on public relations. It is apparent that the experience and the expertise of the three authors have resulted in the success of the book."

"I adopted 'This is PR' because it treats public relations as the important, sophisticated industry that it is. It relies a great deal on the logic and strategy behind PR principles and has very little fluff. The book serves as an excellent reference for my students for years after completing the course. The majority of the boxed items are terrific and give a practical tone to the text."

"Overall, I like the approach of the text. I think it is solid and very contemporary. ..The emphasis on public relations is particularly laudable."

About this edition

• Publisher: Wadsworth Pub Co
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0534172628
• ISBN 13: 9780534172626
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 650