{"id":1012,"date":"2008-10-27T16:50:52","date_gmt":"2008-10-27T21:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/?p=1012"},"modified":"2015-12-07T11:45:27","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T16:45:27","slug":"pr-lab-featured-in-prweek","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/articles\/pr-lab-featured-in-prweek\/","title":{"rendered":"PRLab featured in PRWeek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Oct. 27 issue of <em>PRWeek<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Value of real world lessons<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Student-run PR agencies give those preparing for a career in the industry experience they can&#8217;t get in the classroom. <\/p>\n<p>The Beacon Hill Business Association (BHBA) is a 140-member nonprofit that promotes the tony neighborhood in Boston. Since 2007, BHBA has been represented by PR Lab, Boston University&#8217;s student-run PR agency. Last May, a team of four students helped promote the Eighth Annual Taste of Beacon Hill, including crafting a media strategy and executing all media relations. According to BHBA executive director Ellen Rooney, the students helped make the event one of the most successful to date. &ldquo;We sold out ahead of time and were turning people down,&rdquo; Rooney says. &ldquo;It&#8217;s always been a fun event, but we&#8217;ve never had a response like that.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Read the full text of &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.prweekus.com\/Value-of-real-world-lessons\/article\/119923\/\">Value of real world lessons<\/a>.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Oct. 27 issue of PRWeek: Value of real world lessons Student-run PR agencies give those preparing for a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9874,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"bu_prepress_billboard":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term_manual":""},"categories":[34,36,2,17],"tags":[45,439,531],"bu-publication":[],"discipline-type":[],"bu_edition":[],"media_type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/1012"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/bu-article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9874"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/1012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6347,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/1012\/revisions\/6347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012"},{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=1012"},{"taxonomy":"discipline-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/discipline-type?post=1012"},{"taxonomy":"bu_edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu_edition?post=1012"},{"taxonomy":"media_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media_type?post=1012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}