November 30, 2020

By Katie Place, associate professor of strategic communication at Quinnipiac University

Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and social unrest this year, organizations have renewed their commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), as well as ethical values. This includes the Page Principles of remaining patient, telling the truth, managing for tomorrow, proving it with action and listening to stakeholders.

A forgotten public

Yet again, as organizations engage diverse publics, low-income individuals remain “the forgotten vulnerable” (Patel et… More

November 19, 2020 • Fuyuan Shen

Does adding visuals to stories make them more effective in communicating issues and changing individuals’ attitudes? This is the research question that I; Michail Vafeiadis, Auburn University; and Jiangxue Han, Appalachian State University, examined in our recent publication in the International Journal of Communication.

As part of our research project, “News storytelling through images: Examining the effects of narratives and visuals in news coverage of issues,” we conducted an experiment in which participants read narrative or nonnarrative… More

November 11, 2020 • Frank Dardis

Nonprofit organizations have always done their best to try to convince stakeholders of the importance of an issue as a “problem” that can and should be solved. They seek to explain how their cause(s) or mission is an effective way to combat the problem and to advocate or promote specific actions that can improve the situation.

Much research in the realm of public relations and strategic communications can inform the communication efforts of a non-profit regarding the attempt… More

November 5, 2020 • Lee Ahern

As a researcher and educator, I seldom get to share my views.

Just kidding.

As a researcher and educator, I share my views all the time. That is what we do. We publish research regularly (or try to) that reflects how we believe “the world works” (based on evidence and sound reasoning, we hope).

We stand up in front of students to explain concepts and theories and how we think “the world works.” More recently we… More

October 21, 2020 • Jonathan McVerry

Dick Martin is the former executive vice president of public relations at AT&T. In 2017, he was part of the inaugural class of Larry Foster Award honorees. In 2019, he returned to the Page Center Awards to posthumously honor his colleague, friend and predecessor at AT&T Marilyn Laurie. Laurie was a public relations pioneer who has been a role model in the industry for decades. She passed away in 2010.

Martin researched and wrote a book… More

October 6, 2020

By Daniela Dimitrova, Iowa State University and Emel Ozdora Aksak, Bilkent University

Our research examined how non-profit organizations operate working with refugees in two different cultural contexts — Turkey and Bulgaria. By focusing on Turkey, which has the largest Syrian refugee population in the world, and Bulgaria, an EU border nation with a minimal number of migrants, the research findings help us better understand the ways in which the different geopolitical and economic environment affect the non-profit sector… More