Recounting our conversation with diverse communicators: How educators, students and professionals are shaping the future of the communications industry Authors: Sarah Heiman, Becca Moe, Daisy Uy and Charmaine Blair The Future of PR Looks Like Us campaign This blog is part of a series called The Future of PR Looks Like Us, a meaningful campaign…
This article is written in response to the critics review of Amazon’s new series, Flack. by Charmaine Blair, Sarah Heiman, Rebecca Moe and Daisy Johanna Uy Our PR class of ‘21 found last Jan. 23’s op ed “Flack: A must-see about PR’s many monsters” misleading. Some of that had to do with the headline —…
By: Rebecca Moe, student 2020/21 How does one rise to the occasion and help people find a new zest for life…or baking? It’s a piece of cake! Or rather, Turkish Pide; a delicious, nutritious and affordable dish. Covid-19 has heightened the impact of poverty across Canada. Food insecurity is a form and symptom of poverty…
By Donna Lindell, Program Coordinator, Professor, Post Grad PR Program My end of the year message to students is a tradition. This year I’ve been struggling with what to say, for obvious reasons. By now, we’re all looking for synonyms for ‘unprecedented’ and have become quite used to either our shadows, our pets, and/or others…
By Sarah El-Bakri, Student, 2019/2020 We know, having a project and event planning course sounds really cool and fancy, but it is definitely a lot more work than it looks – especially when you learn it all in the span of a few weeks. After having barely memorized everyone in the class’s names, we jumped…
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…
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…
We’re so proud of our students, we can hardly stand it! This year, students who began our program in September 2016 won three student awards for excellence in Communications Plans, done, by the way, for REAL clients. Congratulations to the student teams: And a huge congratulations to Student of the Year, CCPR student Priya Khemchandra,…
By Donna Lindell, Program Coordinator I’m pretty sure there is not one #ccpr student who would argue with me when I say that this has been a rough and tumble year. Set to begin Field Placements in the real world come Monday, many students might be saying, ‘can’t wait’ or ‘we made it’ but the…
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