On March 23, I had the honor of speaking at a panel hosted at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. Part of a series of panels that sought to bridge the gap between public relations education and practice by bringing together up-and-coming communications students and seasoned practitioners, the panel I participated in featured four … Continue reading Senior Year – A Year of Oppurtunity
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“It’s kind of unexpected that the president of a democracy would use that term to describe the media, which is kind of an essential part of holding leaders accountable.” Said POLITICO’s Daniel Lippman, who referred to his organization being excluded from a recent White House press gaggle as a “badge of honor.”
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Fairfax, VA – After 2016, researchers question whether media can thwart character assassination in future election coverage. George Mason University’s Arlington campus is the host for the Lab for Character Assassination and Reputation Politics’ (CARP) conference on March 3-4. Discussion panels will explore the historical and modern applications of character assassination and reputation management. CARP … Continue reading Character Assassination Gains New Foothold in U.S. Politics After 2016 Presidential Election
Voters living in Fairfax County will have several choices to make on their ballots when they vote Nov. 8. Aside from voting for candidates in the presidential, state and local elections, voters will also be asked to decide on two proposed amendments to the state constitution and a meals tax referendum.
On Nov. 30, CBS News broke an exclusive story, alleging that Peace Corps placed the blame for sexual assault against volunteers on the victims and punished them for reporting it. CBS obtained exclusive access to a Peace Corps survey that found that of the roughly seven thousand volunteers in over 65 countries all over the world, nearly one in five had been sexually assaulted, and only half of these had reported the crime.
*This article was originally created for a course in writing for various forms of media and was published on 30 Nov., 2015. The roughly 29,000 US military personnel stationed in South Korea lost two of their own earlier this week in a helicopter crash on a rural road in Wonju. An Apache AH-64 went down … Continue reading Korean media claim US military helicopter downed by electrical wires
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