What is Public Relations? - Answers A process that involves the unannounced insertion of products or
ideas into media materials
People sometimes talk about PR narrowly, equating it with publicity. What is Publicity? - Answers The
process of getting people or products mentioned in the news and entertainment media in order to get
members of the public interested in them
What are the 2 major ways in which PR differs from advertising? - Answers - Advertisers *pay for the
space or time* that they receive, whereas public relations practitioners typically do not.
- Advertising clearly states its presence. When you see an ad, you know what it is for, and you often
know quite easily who is sponsoring it. A public relations activity, by contrast, typically *hides its
presence and its sponsor*.
What are three examples that suggest the *wide territory* of the PR world? - Answers - To help devise a
strategy for dealing with things that are harmful to your company
- To help change the perception that your company's stock is undervalued
- You get your PR team to write a negative response about your logo
In all these scenarios, what does PR involve? - Answers Information, activities, and policies by which
corporations and other organizations seek to create attitudes favorable to themselves and their work,
and to counter adverse attitudes
These scenarios also suggest that public relations need not involved the _________________ of mass
communications - Answers Technology
- may involve one-on-one lobbying, which is a form of interpersonal communication.
But for many aspects of their work, public relations practitioners do turn to the ___________
__________ - Answers Mass media
What advertising and PR have in common is that they deal in .....? Whereas advertising activities supply
money directly to support particular _______ _________, public relations activities supply ideas to
media for _________. - Answers - Billions of dollars and play profound roles in American mass media.
- Media outlets
- Stories
PR is helping the media personnel get their work done more ____________ and _____________ than
would have been the case if the PR firms hadn't helped out. - Answers Quickly and efficiently
, Public relations practitioners that are found in corporations, government bodies, health care
institutions, military branches, professional services firms, associations, nonprofit organizations, and
other public and private entities often carry out 3 types of work. What are they? - Answers - Media
relations
- Internal relations
- External relations
What are Media Relations? - Answers All dealings with reporters and other members of media
organizations who might tell a story about a client
- work most closely related to media
What do Media Relations employees do? - Answers - Handle *calls and emails* from journalists looking
for information or wanting to speak to particular executives.
- *Provide answers* and *coordinate interviews*
- *Teach executives* the best way to act on camera
What is Internal Relations? - Answers Presenting the views of the company to company workers and
owners—employees, union groups, and shareholders
(inside the company)
What are External Relations? - Answers Presenting the views of the company to people and
organizations *outside the firm*. Many of the outside and inside activities involve interpersonal
activities: face-to-face meetings with congressional staff, for example, or speeches to union members
At the same time, a fair amount of the work in both areas may well involve a variety of _________
________ - Answers Media outlets
Just as the work of PR departments in companies often involves fueling media content of one sort or
another, so public relations agencies often aim to "___________" media firms with content that benefits
their clients. - Answers Subsidize
Sometimes clients make "____________" deals with an agency, under which the company agrees to
carry out a PR program at an agreed-upon rate per month. - Answers Retainer
What do large public relation firms do? What do small ones do? - Answers - Large firms help clients with
any area of communication
- Smaller firms specialize in a particular part of their industry's work
What are the biggest public relations firms? - Answers - Fleishman-Hillard
- Weber Shandwick