Stories by Kaylee Hultgren

An IPR webinar on March 6, featuring communications and business executives from Merck, healthcare agency Real Chemistry and reputation intelligence platform Maha Global, explored how corporate brand and reputation drives business outcomes. The conversation covered the challenges of measuring that reputation, tools, key KPIs and emerging issues in reputation management.

A Museum of PR Event on Feb. 18, titled “Celebrating Black PR History 2024: Where Are All the Black Men in PR,” hosted an intergenerational panel to discuss the issues facing Black men in PR today, strategies to attract more of them to the industry, and share their own experiences.

The Institute for Public Relations’ Measurement Commission held its first meeting of 2024 last week. Afterward, PRNEWS caught up with Commission head Olivia K. Fajardo, M.A., Director of Research at IRP, to identify and discuss the most pressing issues on the minds of the organization’s members.

Lulu Cheng Meservey, former EVP, Corporate Affairs and Chief Communications Officer at Activision Blizzard, shares lessons on internal communications, board governance and building movements through messaging.

Measurement expert Katie Paine discusses three trends to follow in PR measurement; metrics she hopes communicators will soon retire; how to begin creating a measurement framework; and more.

United Airlines’ Executive Vice President of Communications and Advertising, Josh Earnest, shares details about the brand’s integrated communications playbook.

PRNEWS spoke with two CMOs about the convergence of PR and marketing, how their earlier roles in communications benefitted their careers and what PR pros with C-suite aspirations should be focusing on.

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