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Public Relations In Theory | |
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Introducing the Theory | |
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The Origins of PR | |
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Public relations: one or many definitions? | |
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Where PR comes from and why history matters | |
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The early years: Ivy Lee, Edward Bernays | |
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Ivy Lee | |
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Box: Extracts from Ivy Lee's 'Declaration of Principles' | |
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Edward Bernays | |
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International growth | |
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The history of public relations in the UK | |
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Theory: why some campaigns work and some don't | |
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Communication theory | |
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Laswell's communication model | |
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Linear model | |
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Two-step communication model | |
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Public relations theory | |
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Mass audience and audience | |
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Target audience | |
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Publics | |
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The four models of Grunig and Hunt | |
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The press agentry/publicity model | |
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Box: Propaganda, Publicity and Public Relations | |
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The public information model | |
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The two-way asymmetric model | |
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The two-way symmetric model | |
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The excellence project | |
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Marketing, Advertising and Public Relations | |
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Why marketing matters | |
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Market-led companies | |
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Product-led companies | |
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Box: Advertising and the Rebirth of Marks & Spencer | |
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The marketing mix | |
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Social marketing | |
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New forms of marketing | |
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Box: Cadbury's Drumming Gorilla | |
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Advertising: good or evil? | |
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How is PR different to advertising? | |
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Advertising agents and PR consultants | |
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Marketing public relations | |
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Reputation Management | |
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What is a good reputation? | |
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Box: Reputation and Finance | |
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Box: British Airways and the Reputation Nightmare | |
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The relationship between PR and reputation | |
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Box: Cadbury and the Disclosure Problem | |
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Advocating reputation management | |
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Acquiring a good reputation | |
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Box: Measures of Corporate Reputation | |
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Box: Shell and the Attempt to Change a Reputation | |
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Factors involved in developing good reputation | |
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Online reputation management | |
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Against reputation management | |
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Box: What Can Reputation Affect? | |
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'Wrong' industry: how an industry's reputation affects businesses | |
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Brands and reputation: corporate identity | |
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Crisis Management: Public Relations Centre Stage | |
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What is a crisis? | |
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The crisis communication plan | |
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The plan | |
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The management team | |
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The communication process | |
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Box: Crisis Rules | |
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The post-crisis evaluation | |
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Box: New Technology and Controlling the News Agenda | |
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Handling a crisis | |
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The 2005 London bombings | |
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The Buncefield fire | |
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Issues management: stopping crises before they happen | |
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Ethics | |
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Why ethics is becoming more important to PR | |
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Advocacy and the adviser-client relationship | |
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Does PR corrupt the media? | |
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The ethics of individuals | |
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Codes and conducts | |
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The ethics of businesses | |
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Four traditions | |
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Moral evaluations | |
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Ethics and the multinational company | |
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Business is business: is CSR welcome at all? | |
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Business is business: is it worth the hype? | |
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Social corporate responsibility | |
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Environmental corporate responsibility | |
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Sustainable objectives | |
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Is corporate social responsibility just PR in disguise? | |
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Delivering CSR | |
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Public Relations In Practice | |
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Introducing the Practice | |
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Public relations practice in the UK | |
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The business of PR | |
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The people in PR | |
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Recruiting and keeping staff | |
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Public Relations In-house | |
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Who does what | |
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Box: Strategic Adviser or PR Manager | |
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The PR practitioner as gatekeeper | |
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Box: Views on the Job | |
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Comparing in-house and external consultants | |
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Internal communications | |
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Box: Getting the Structure Right | |
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Organisational culture: who are 'the company'? | |
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Channels of communication | |
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Measuring the effect of communications | |
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Public Relations Consultancies | |
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Types of consultancy | |
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Categories of consultancy | |
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Box: Sole Practice in PR: Should You Follow This Route? | |
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'Agency' or 'consultancy': does it matter? | |
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Professionalisation of the industry | |
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Box: UK PR Consultancies | |
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Services offered by consultancies | |
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Diary: The PR Account Manager | |
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Starting a new PR business | |
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Box: Consultancies and the Public Sector | |
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The brief | |
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The pitch | |
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Case Study: The Board Director | |
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Working the account | |
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Box: Working in a PR Consultancy | |
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Client satisfaction | |
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Over-servicing | |
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Charging | |
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Box: Main Charging Methods | |
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Strategy, Research, Measurement and Evaluation | |
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Structuring a PR programme | |
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Research | |
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Defining public relations problems and issues | |
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SWOT and PEST analyses | |
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Strategy | |
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Box: Levels of Strategy | |
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Measurement and evaluation | |
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Box: Evaluation Models | |
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Pseudo-measurement | |
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Opportunities to see (OTS) | |
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Advertising value equivalence (AVE) | |
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Payment by results (PBR) | |
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Electronic evaluation | |
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Putting Effective PR Campaigns into Practice | |
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Tactics: the building blocks of PR campaigns | |
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Journalists and public relations: hacks and flacks | |
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Case Study: The Business Journalist | |
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Box: The Jo Moore incident | |
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Media relations in the PR campaign | |
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Writing the news release | |
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Distributing the news release | |
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Targeting the right people | |
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Managing the data | |
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Ensuring media coverage | |
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Box: Media Roles and Responsibilities | |
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Dealing with the media | |
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The features list | |
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Media training | |
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Press conferences | |
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Electronic channels of communication | |
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Online media | |
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Blogs: are they the future of PR? | |
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Box: Viral Language | |
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Diary: The Account Executive | |
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Corporate Communications and Financial PR | |
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What is corporate communication? | |
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The history of financial PR | |
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Financial PR consultancies | |
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Box: the Three Main Activities of Financial PR | |
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Financial calendar work | |
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Profit warnings and the unexpected | |
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Diary: The Vice-President | |
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Investor relations | |
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Box: FTSE 100 and 250 Companies | |
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Initial public offerings | |
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Financial audiences | |
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Analysts | |
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The financial media | |
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Government and the Public Sector | |
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Social marketing | |
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Government communications | |
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Box: Defining the Public Sector | |
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Local government | |
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Box: Restricting or Helping? Public Sector PR as Gatekeeper | |
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Box: Working in the Public Sector | |
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Case Study: The Head of Corporate Communications for a Local Borough | |
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Central government communication | |
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Spin | |
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How political parties are changing political communication | |
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Political lobbying | |
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Diary: The Director of a Political Consultancy | |
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The origins of lobbying | |
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Lobbying companies | |
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Is lobbying effective? | |
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Is lobbying ethical? | |
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From Charities to Celebrities: the Variety and Diversity of PR Practice | |
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Charities and campaigning organisations | |
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Diary: The Press Officer | |
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How charities campaign | |
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Diary: The Press Officer | |
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Celebrities | |
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Case Study: Max Clifford, publicist | |
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Case Study: Sam Delaney, editor of Heat magazine | |
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Sports | |
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Sponsorship | |
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Media relations in sport | |
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Channels of communication | |
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Community relations in sport | |
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Where PR (and You) Can Go Next | |
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The changing PR landscape | |
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Industry challenges and opportunities | |
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Getting started in PR | |
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Box: What Employers Want from New Recruits | |