Ask any public relations professional to name the question they get most often and, inevitably, it comes down to “What is PR?”
You can hardly go into any new business meeting or grab coffee with a friend without hearing the question. For a profession in which businesses spend billions of dollars on our services, there is remarkably little understanding of what we do.
Recent discussions, blog posts, tweets and mainstream articles paint the following picture:
- Public relations professionals (and, thus, the audiences we serve) continue to struggle with this question;
- Existing definitions are not sufficient; and
- No one definition is considered the de facto industry definition.
My guess is you can relate to this, based on your own experiences.
PRSA has been listening to and engaging in many of these conversations, and after careful consideration, we have come to the conclusion it’s time to do something.
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