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Podcast: Public Relations Review Podcast
Episode: How working in a presidential campaign can boost your public relations career.
Description: THE AUDIO FOR THIS PROGRAM IS BELOW OUR NORMAL STANDARDS BECAUSE IT WAS RECORDED VIA TELEPHONE CONFERENCE CALL.
Being involved in managing media, events planning, meetings with senior officials, etc for a presidential campaign can do wonders for boosting public relations careers. You gain actual "hands-on" PR experience not offered in graduate school. You may often communicate with governors, mayors, other elected officials, university presidents and more. You learn how to multi-task with media, "roll outs," the importance of details for events planning in coordinations with advance teams and--perhaps--the Secret Service,, messaging and much more. Listen as three pu...