Click on the arrow above to watch the Zoom recording of Otis Taylor’s talk. Otis R. Taylor Jr. is a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. He writes about issues affecting the East Bay, but the impact of his words has no limits. Most of his columns deal with issues related to racism and culture. […]
Read MoreDecember 9, 2020 Holiday Program & Scholarship Fundraiser Join the San Francisco Public Relations Round Table for a Virtual Lockdown Comedy Break With Comedians Lisa Geduldig and Greg Proops Get Your Ticket Now! Wednesday, December 9, 2020 12 noon – 1 p.m., with networking from 11:50 a.m.-noon We are thrilled to present two stars […]
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Two veteran Bay Area journalists spoke about investigative reporting at the October 7 meeting of the San Francisco Public Relations Round Table. Lance Williams and Katharine Mieszkowski, both senior reporters with Reveal News (part of The Center for Investigative Reporting nonprofit), discussed what makes a good investigative report, and then provided a case history for […]
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Two longtime Round Table members have been named Life Members by the Round Table Board of Trustees. Beverly Butler Rose, APR, ABC, retired in early August as senior vice president and department head of Customer Experience Communications, Treasury Management, at Wells Fargo, and Blodwen Tarter, PhD, retired in late August as chair of the Marketing and […]
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“2020 was to have been a banner year for San Francisco and the cruise business. Instead, we got coronavirus.” That’s how Randy Quezada put it when looking back over the past few months of his job as communications director at the Port of San Francisco. Quezada was a panelist at a discussion about managing communications […]
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A Statement by the Board of Trustees of the Public Relations Round Table of San Francisco It is hard to find the right words to say to people who are feeling great pain, and this, most unfortunately, is that time. We are all disturbed about our world in the aftermath of the tragic deaths of […]
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“Knowledge is our most precious resource,” says journalist Priya Clemens. She learned that during her stint as editor-in-chief of her elementary school newspaper. It’s still the foundation for all she does. And what she’s done! Washington, DC, New York, California – she’s been a TV producer and reporter for network and local news stations all […]
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It’s early May 2020. We’ve all read the stories about how people are coping with the current pandemic. While some of us have it easier than others, it’s no party for anyone. We asked five PR Round Table members to share with us what life has been like since the onset of COVID-19. We also […]
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Go to the end of the story for videos of our scholarship winners, or view on YouTube. At a time when the Covid-19 crisis is disrupting colleges across the land, and putting many students and their families in a financial bind, the PR Round Table’s long-running Philip N. McCombs Scholarship Program will bring welcome relief […]
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JOIN THE SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC RELATIONS ROUND TABLE FOR THIS FREE ONLINE EVENT PR Round Table Virtual Scholarship Lunch with “KQED Newroom” host Priya Clemens will focus on what it’s like to work in news during COVID-19. New KQED Newsroom Host Priya Clemens generously said “yes” when asked to join PR Round Table at our annual Scholarship […]
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