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Academics engaging through the media—Insights from creating a monthly column on crisis management

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posted on 2020-10-05, 15:37 authored by Daniel LauferDaniel Laufer
© 2020 Elsevier Inc. Universities increasingly expect academics to engage with external stakeholders. This includes providing media commentary. In this article I describe my experience writing a monthly column on Crisis Management in the New Zealand Herald, the most widely read newspaper in New Zealand with an average daily readership of over 460,000 people (New Zealand Herald, 2019). The article also describes the benefits of writing a newspaper column including educating the public about issues relating to Crisis Management such as managing Covid-19, creating a platform for enhancing collaboration between academics and Public Relations firms, and enhancing the reputation of both the academic and university. This article will benefit academics in the field of Public Relations who are interested in writing a newspaper column to engage through the media.

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Laufer, D. (2020). Academics engaging through the media—Insights from creating a monthly column on crisis management. Public Relations Review, 101932-101932. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pubrev.2020.101932

Journal title

Public Relations Review

Publication date

2020-01-01

Pagination

101932-101932

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Publication status

Published

ISSN

0363-8111

eISSN

1873-4537

Article number

101932

Language

en

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