Public relations involves managing communication between an organization and the public to influence perceptions. Early practitioners included those who campaigned for politicians in the late 1700s. During World War I, many PR professionals got their start with the Committee on Public Information, helping stimulate the development of public relations as a profession focused on propaganda and publicity.
2. Public Relation (definition)
Public relations (PR) is the practice of managing the
flow of information between an individual or an
organization and the public. Public relations may include
an organization or individual gaining exposure to their
audiences using topics of public interest and news items
that do not require direct payment.
The aim of public relations by a company often is to
persuade the public, investors, partners, employees, and
other stakeholders to maintain a certain point of view
about it, its leadership, products, or of political decisions.
Common activities include speaking at conferences,
winning industry awards, working with the press, and
employee communication.
3. Public Relation (history)
One early practitioner of public relations is Georgiana Cavendish,
Early Duchess of Devonshire, who conducted press relations, lobbying and
History celebrity campaigning on behalf of Charles James Fox, a British
politician supporting the Whig party in the late 1700s.
Develo The First World War helped stimulate the development of public
pment relations as a profession. Many of the first PR professionals, including
as war- Ivy Lee, Edward Bernays, John W. Hill, and Carl Byoir, got their start
time with the Committee on Public Information (also known as the Creel
propag Committee), which organized publicity on behalf of U.S. objectives
anda
during World War I.
4. Public Relation (negative)
Negative public relations, also called dark public relations
(DPR), is a process of destroying the target's reputation
and/or corporate identity. The objective in DPR is to discredit
someone else, who may pose a threat to the client's business
or be a political rival. DPR may rely on IT security, industrial
espionage, social engineering and competitive intelligence.
Common techniques include using dirty secrets from the
target, producing misleading facts to fool a competitor. Some
claim that negative public relations may be highly moral and
beneficial for the general public since threat of losing the
reputation may be disciplining for companies, organizations
and individuals. Apart from this, negative public relations helps
to expose legitimate claims against one.
5. Public Relation (example)
Edward Bernays
Edward Louis Bernays (November 22, 1891 March 9, 1995) was an Austrian-
American pioneer in the field of public relations and propaganda, referred to in his
obituary as "the father of public relations".
Hairnet he got a labor expert to urge labor commissioners around the country to
insist that women working with or near machines wear hairnets for their own protection.
Much favorable publicity ensued.
cigarettes he was instrumental in making it acceptable for women to smoke in
public, sponsoring, on behalf of the American Tobacco Company's Lucky Strike
cigarettes, demonstrations in which debutantes gathered on street corners to light up.
The cigarettes were even called "torches of freedom."