The Public Relations Styleguide: Formats for Public Relations Practice - Softcover

Diggs-Brown, Barbara; Glou, Jody

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0534570364 ISBN 13: 9780534570361

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 1980

Synopsis

Diggs-Brown and Glou (both of American U.) offer style and formatting advice for the various kinds of communications used in public relations, including audio and video news releases, annual reports, brochures, direct mail campaigns, media kits, news letters, opinion-editorials, and speeches. Each c

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"It's really a superior text. 1. The book is very accessible to undergraduates and well written. 2. The book covers all of the basic PR tactics. 3. The example galleries are highly useful visual aids."

"This style guide is a tool that the student should keep with them after college. It should be on their desk at work as a quick reference. I tell my students not to sell it back to the bookstore."

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0534570364
• ISBN 13: 9780534570361
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• Number of pages: 150