Articles on PR for People

PR for People® Announces Judges for Matt Kramer Award

The PR for People® Matt Kramer Award for Excellence in Journalism recognizes a journalist who has told a powerful and compelling news story about a person who is making a difference in the world. Journalists are invited to submit links to their news stories by the deadline of August 31, 2017. The journalist who wrote the winning entry shall receive a monetary stipend of $500 U.S dollars and promotion of the award designation to global media.  

 

The American Elephant: Women’s Continued Segregation and Underpayment

The bulk of my salaries was swallowed up in the cost of the moves and higher living expenses in the regions around the schools. So, for over eight years now, my real source of income has been publishing. The blame might be with the untenured and otherwise unsecure state of academic employment. But being a woman in academia is especially disabling.


The Robots are Here!

Seattle Academy's robotics program supports the development of student skills in the context of building a robot to compete in the FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC). 


Professional Lighting With An iPhone?

I'm not sure what the future iterations of iPhones will be like, but I am sure that manufacturers will try to make the taking of professional grade images ubiquitous worldwide in the next few years!


Sherrod Small, Joe Machi Plus Aida Rodriguez and Jon Laster

Sherrod Small’s Growing Media Enterprise, Joe Machi’s Podcast Plus News From Aida Rodriguez, Jon Laster and More

In Praise of Rube Goldberg

Rube Goldberg was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American cartoonist, author, sculptor, and engineer. He lived from 1883 to 1970, and his wildly inventive cartoons featured contraptions that he had designed to (according to Webster's dictionary): accomplish by complex means what seemingly could be done simply. Talk about being a contrarian!


From Denver | Wage Gapped

After a mental breakdown and a stint in a psychiatric hospital Eric P. was provided with ongoing therapy, community support and medication. He soon found his lawfully prescribed medication was in demand by his friends. This is one man's account how he ended up selling his own drugs to make ends meet. 


From Nebraska | Your Boss....

Your Boss May Have to Pay to Call You on Vacation!


The Good Old Days? I Don’t Think So

What was it about the old days to call them good? From what I’ve read in the history books people had it pretty rough back then.  The Inquisition, scarlet fever, slavery, the Holocaust, life expectancy was a lot shorter, people could smoke cigarettes on planes, and worst of all, rotary phones.