Public Relations Managers Job DescriptionPublic Relations…or PR…is an important part of any business, government agency or non-profit organization. It’s the job of Public Relations Managers to help protect the organization’s reputation and image.
Often they act as the liaison between the organization and the public and news media.
PR managers write press releases and set-up events that the press is invited to attend. In times of crisis, these managers are called upon to explain the company’s side of the issue
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Public Relations Specialists Job DescriptionTelling the world about a business, product, cause, candidate, organization or institution is the work of Public Relations Specialists and Publicity Writers.
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A public relations specialist can provide strategic advice about how to get the word out, and about how policies might impact consumers, voters, shareholders, fundraisers, and other people the client needs to reach.
To do that job effectively, the specialist maintains contacts with the news media, and organizations that are important in a particular field
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Reporters and Correspondents Job Description A reporter's job can feel different every day. Breaking news sets reporters at the scene of a fresh drama on every assignment.
Publications, news programs and even the Internet rely on information gathered by reporters and correspondents. Some cover a specific beat or specialty… others pursue different stories every day as general assignment reporters. All go to the spot where the news is happening and assemble the facts for the news story
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Writers and Authors Job DescriptionThe number of words produced by writers and editors each day is staggering. Newspapers, magazines, and books are only the most obvious examples.
There are also the catalogs that arrive in your mailbox, the words that appear on everything from aspirin bottles to cereal boxes, and the words found in instruction booklets and on printed forms—to say nothing of those on Internet Web pages.
Regardless of where the writing appears, however, an “editor” probably decided what was needed, assigned the job to a writer, and later fine-tuned the writer’s text
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