Speaker on PR; Edwin N, Prugh

I have always found Public Relations to be in my area of interest, but must admit did not comprehend a whole lot on the subject. Monday, June 28th, my second day in the conference, I met Edwin N. Prugh, the President and Chief Strategy Officer of Nevin Communications. Mr. Prugh taught me about the world of public relations, and in doing so opened my mind to all the possibilities this profession might also hold in my future. I realized, with Mr. Prugh's help, that PR and journalism are most similar and that both professions I was looking into as interesting but different can in fact be pursued with the same degree. Prugh himself acquired a degree in Journalism. Again, I was inspired and enormously motivated. Prugh compared advertising to PR with the only difference being that advertisement is payed and PR is not. I have concluded that, PR is kind of the guardian of advertising where PR provides the guidelines for a successful image.