Pitch Perfect: the PR Podcast
Extending from the very successful r/publicrelations group on Reddit, Pitch Perfect talks to top PR professionals from a variety of different roles, focus areas, geographies and approaches to gain insight into how to enter the field, do the work, manage the career, deal with the highs and lows, and everything else involved in being a communications professional. Topics include public affairs, investor relations, tech PR, internal communications and, hopefully, not too much celebrity PR.
Pitch Perfect: the PR Podcast
Latest Episodes
Ep. 16 - Cynthia McCafferty, President, Hawthorne Strategy Group - Politics to PR, nonprofit work, state of journalism, career management
Cynthia McCafferty is President and CEO of Hawthorne Strategy Group, a Chicago-based PR agency with a wide range of clients and a particular focus on non-profit work for public and para-public agencies. Before joining Hawthorne in 2015, Cynthia...
Ep. 15 - Hans Hack, Senior Managing Director, FTI Consulting: Brussels, Public Affairs, Europe
This is the second in a two-parter about public affairs. Hans Hack is a Senior Managing Director and the head of the Brussels office for the public affairs practice at FTI Consulting. Hans' background is in policy making and strategic advocacy ...
Ep. 14 - Stephen Aaron, Perspective Strategies: Washington, the political divide, getting into public affairs, Atticus Finch and Alabama sharecroppers
Stephen Aaron is the Founder and CEO of Perspective Strategies. He is a public affairs strategist and influence expert with almost twenty years of experience in Washington D.C. transforming the way his clients are understood by elected official...
Ep. 13 - Samantha Flynn, Junipr Public Relations - Starting your own agency, differences between agency and in-house, being young in the business, phone pitching...
Samantha Flynn is president of Junipr Public Relations in Chicago, and has been featured in PR Week, Forbes, The Wrap and Authority Magazine, sharing expertise in best practices in public relations, reputation management, crisis communications,...
Ep. 12 - Ron Culp, DePaul University - Ageism, AI, career guidance, academia vs. professionalia, early days of corporate communications, Chicago...
Ron Culp is a Chicago PR legend. Currently the lead of DePaul University's brilliant PR program, he joined DePaul after a long and storied career in politics, corporate communications and agency leadership. Prior to joining DePaul, Ron held sen...
