I do not boast to be knowledgeable about public relations. True, my bachelor’s degree states that I have a couple of PR classes under my belt and that I got academic credit for doing a PR internship. The truth is, I barely understood why I had to do all that stuff, I but managed to make good grades because I like to excel even at things I dislike.
My wish and hope is that by the end of this semester, anyone tracking my progress, and that includes my greatest critic- me, will see some progress in me. I should not only be able to have a grasp of what it is to practice public relations in this century, but my way of thinking should have evolved to a more critical one. I also would love to shape PR to fit my life and career choice; I intend to use whatever skills I have gathered from research and broadcasting which I love, to find my own niche in public relations.
Our facilitator for the class, as our professor calls herself, said something really interesting: reporters have news stories to report because of PR people and money to run their organizations thanks to advertising revenue. Since everything is so interconnected, I see no harm in learning about all these areas of communication. In my way of thinking, it will make me an all-round professor, which I intend to be in a few years.
Maybe it's our lot in life to change the face of how PR is portrayed in the industry. ;0) I look forward to reading more of your entries!
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