Public Relations Cases
5th Edition
Description:
The Fifth Edition continues
to study examples of public relations by following the author's philosophy that great PR
comes from interactive participation among sources and receivers of information. The text
walks students through the evaluation of excellent case studies and helps students to
understand why select public relations cases had the effect they did.
Benefits:
The text presents cases
by following the ROPE Process of Public Relations as devised by the author: Research of
initial topics, Establishment of Objectives, Programming, and Evaluation of the publics'
success.
This edition is
enriched by 24, carefully selected new cases such as "WaMoola Madness: America Meets
the New $20 Bill;" "Titanic Video Launch;" "Creating Confidence in a
Corporate Turnaround;" and "Visa's 'Read Me a Story. Twenty-four of 28 cases are
new to this edition.
The 1998 and 1999
Silver Anvil Award winners are included as cases in the text. These award winning public
relations campaigns represent the best of the best in the field of Public Relations. Cases
featuring Silver Anvil Award winners are marked by an anvil icon.
New technologies like
email and the World Wide Web and how they are affecting the way PR is done are now
integrated throughout every chapter. Implications of good and bad uses of technology are
illustrated, including topics like the use of the video news releases and Web press
releases.
The latest news
and research articles onlineupdated daily and spanning four years! Choose to package
InfoTrac College Edition with this text and you and your students will have 4-month's free
access to an easy-to-use online database of reliable, full-length articles (not abstracts)
from hundreds of top academic journals and popular sources. Contact your Wadsworth/Thomson
Learning representative for more information. Available to North American college and
university students only. Journals subject to change.
An end-of-chapter Web
exercise, marked by an icon, guides students online to current, topic-related articles in
InfoTrac College Edition.
Cases include award
winners as well as PR efforts that failed, providing students with ample opportunity for
analysis.
Available to qualified
adopters, the Video for Public Relation Cases includes great examples of public relations
in action.
Chapter 1, "Public
Relations in Action," offers in-depth coverage of the ethics involved with practicing
PR.
Appendix II: PRSA Code
of Ethics offers students the latest guidelines established by the Public Relations
Society of America.
Praised for thorough
inception to evaluation coverage, the author systematically presents the entire execution
of each case, from initial research efforts to finished results or evaluation.
To motivate class
interaction, Questions for Class Discussion are provided in the appendix.
Case Problems and
Exercises, formerly Appendix II, are now found in the Instructor's Manual as well as at
the faculty download area on the online Communication Café
(http://communication.wadsworth.com).
In response to reviewer
feedback, a new Chapter 12, "Integrated Marketing Communications," has been
added. This chapter demonstrates how both public relations and advertising can be combined
into a seamless whole to accomplish essential marketing goals.
486 pages