I’ll be speaking at a CPRS panel, Gen Next: Preparing the Future Stars of the PR Industry on May 8 in Toronto. As someone who once hand-delivered news releases to the Parliamentary Press Gallery in Ottawa so as to develop a face-to-face rapport (and dare I say I also FAXed out media releases to a…
by Mohammad Raza It was a frustrating and late night at the end of my second to last year in university, with a double major almost in hand but no exit strategy in sight, when my best friend changed my life with a simple suggestion: “Why don’t you see if college might be the way…
It’s that time of year when we’ve sent out our super-talented students to complete their Field Placement, the final requirement of their post-graduate certificate in public relations here at Centennial College. Every year, I find myself educating employers and students alike on the difference between Field Placement and Internship. To be clear: A Field Placement…
The last two weeks of the semester are always hard. Final assignments, demands of Storyworks’ clients, anxiety about moving on to your field placement and even some sadness that you’re leaving a class of peers that you’ve grown to (mostly) love and admire. At the same time, elation and celebration: you made it! You survived….
Congratulations to student award winners for taking home three silver CPRS ACE awards for Student Communications Plan of the Year and also to Jorielle Nunag for CPRS Student of the Year.
By Donna Lindell, Professor & Coordinator Yesterday I stood in front of my public relations students in my Communications Management II class for the last time….final class is Thursday with a test. At the end of the class, there was a long, noticeable silence. It was the space students were giving me to give them…
As part of Centennial College’s unique Storyworks course, offered in second semester, students get to create and execute a real campaign for a real client. A group of six students working for non-profit CivicAction, worked with survey company Maru/Matchbox to design a survey of millennials asking them what issues they wanted their civic leaders to…
Video produced by CCPR student for their Storyworks client, CivicAction.
Hello everyone. I am Milena and my story with Toronto started 2016 just when I arrived to Canada. I didn’t know much about Toronto and yet here I am. It became the city where I want build my future in. And to me, a city is all about people living in community. So today I…
Presented by: Marguerite Holland It was a snowy night in December and I was waiting to cross the road at the intersection of Carlaw and Danforth, in Toronto’s east end. The walk signal lit up and I started crossing the road, while keeping my eye on the only vehicle that was signaling left – a…
