The PR Styleguide

1. Annual Reports.
2. Audio News Releases.
3. Brochures.
4. Communication Audits.
5. Direct Mail Campaigns.
6. Media Kits.
7. Media Lists.
8. Media Tours.
9. New Media.
10. Newsletters.
11. News Releases.
12. Opinion-Editorials.
13. Public Service Advertisements and Announcements.
14. Speeches.
15. Video News Releases and Electronic Press Kits.
16. Web Sites.
Appendix A. PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS TOOLBOX.
Appendix B. ORGANIZATION PROFILES.
Tests.
Pretest.Post Test.
Usage Quiz.
AP Style Quizzes.
Glossary.
Sources.

Diggs-Brown, Barbara
Barbara Diggs-Brown is a communication strategist with more than 25 years of communication experience, specializing in strategic planning, social marketing strategies, qualitative research, integrated communication, and media relations. She is a prominent national researcher on the development of effective social marketing and communication campaigns as tools to address social change issues, including education, race, and health. As senior social marketing counsel and strategist, Diggs-Brown has designed, conducted, and reported qualitative research for a number of government, foundation, and nonprofit clients. As a communication counsel, she advises communication directors of large and small organizations on planning, qualitative research, audience segmentation, message development, and management.
Diggs-Brown is President and CEO of The Center for Strategic Research and Communication, a 501(c)(3) organization. She frequently lectures and writes on race in the media and is coauthor of a critically acclaimed analysis of race relations in the United States, BY THE COLOR OF OUR SKIN: THE ILLUSION OF INTEGRATION AND THE REALITY OF RACE, published by Dutton. She is the author of STRATEGIC PUBLIC RELATIONS: AN AUDIENCE-FOCUSED APPROACH, recently published by Cengage Learning.
Her public affairs career in Washington has included Director of Public Affairs, Director of Government and Nonprofit Liaison, and Press Secretary for a presidential campaign. She is Associate Professor Emerita and the founding Executive Director of the American University School of Communication Institute for Strategic Communication for Nonprofits.