The PR Styleguide: Formats for Public Relations Practice

Barbara Diggs-Brown, Jodi L. G. Glou

Thompson/Wadsworth, 2007 - Business & Economics - 251 pages

A concise handbook, THE PR STYLEGUIDE: FORMATS FOR PUBLIC RELATIONS PRACTICE serves as a complete style guide and reference tool. Learn to present messages that display great form and style with THE PR STYLEGUIDE. The most widely used and accepted practices in developing PR pieces are included, along with many visual examples and a breakdown of the goals for each piece.

Contents

• CHAPTER: 3
• How Should They Look?: 5
• CHAPTER: 8

About the author

Barbara Diggs-Brown is a communication strategist with more than 25 years of communication experience, specializing in strategic planning, social marketing strategies, qualitative research, integrated communication, and media relations. She is a prominent national researcher on the development of effective social marketing and communication campaigns as tools to address social change issues, including education, race, and health. As senior social marketing counsel and strategist, Diggs-Brown has designed, conducted, and reported qualitative research for a number of government, foundation, and nonprofit clients. As a communication counsel, she advises communication directors of large and small organizations on planning, qualitative research, audience segmentation, message development, and management.Diggs-Brown is President and CEO of The Center for Strategic Research and Communication, a 501(c)(3) organization. She frequently lectures and writes on race in the media and is coauthor of a critically acclaimed analysis of race relations in the United States, BY THE COLOR OF OUR SKIN: THE ILLUSION OF INTEGRATION AND THE REALITY OF RACE, published by Dutton. She is the author of STRATEGIC PUBLIC RELATIONS: AN AUDIENCE-FOCUSED APPROACH, recently published by Cengage Learning.Her public affairs career in Washington has included Director of Public Affairs, Director of Government and Nonprofit Liaison, and Press Secretary for a presidential campaign. She is Associate Professor Emerita and the founding Executive Director of the American University School of Communication Institute for Strategic Communication for Nonprofits.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The PR Styleguide: Formats for Public Relations Practice; Wadsworth series in mass communication and journalism
• Authors: Barbara Diggs-Brown, Jodi L. G. Glou
• Edition: 2, illustrated
• Publisher: Thompson/Wadsworth, 2007
• Original from: Pennsylvania State University
• Digitized: Jun 29, 2009
• ISBN: 0495006432, 9780495006435
• Length: 251 pages
• Subjects: Business & Economics / Business Communication / General; Business & Economics / General; Business & Economics / Industries / Media & Communications; Business & Economics / Public Relations; Education / Teaching / General; Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication Studies; Performing Arts / General; Performing Arts / Mass Media; Social Science / Media Studies