{"id":24374,"date":"2020-04-27T20:05:11","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T00:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/?p=24374"},"modified":"2020-04-27T20:05:11","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T00:05:11","slug":"com-student-takes-first-in-national-pr-case-study-competition","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/articles\/com-student-takes-first-in-national-pr-case-study-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"COM Student Takes First in National PR Case Study Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Noah Cavicchi, a COM graduate student about to complete his master\u2019s degree in public relations, took home first prize this month in a national competition of original case studies in public relations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/page.org\/study_competitions\">The annual competition<\/a> is sponsored by the Arthur W. Page Society, the world&#8217;s leading professional association for senior public relations and corporate communications executives and educators, in alliance with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instituteforpr.org\/\">Institute for Public Relations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Cavicchi\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/gview?url=https:\/\/page.org\/attachments\/e6b1311db196303f7a06c7e1c9f19579fbc02f19\/store\/3b124f1f42d6433c04d0b226549a5d13ba0d4aacc13ab8dca5112bc5f61f\/_MAJOR_LEAGUE_SOCCER_The_challenge_of_Sports__Presentation.pdf\">paper and presentation<\/a>, \u201cMajor League Soccer: Social Consciousness or Social Contentiousness,\u201d explored the league\u2019s responses to vocal opposition by fans to the presence of far-right activists and subsequent efforts to curtail all political speech at matches.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNoah\u2019s case study is a fascinating read about the fine line that organizations have to walk in our current environment of evolving consumer expectations of corporate behavior, hyper-partisanship, and cancel culture,\u201d said Arunima Krishna, assistant professor of public relations. \u201cIt is a great resource for anyone interested in sports communication, crisis communication, corporate communication, or public relations in general.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>COM students Sarah Dasher and Olivia Zed were awarded the competition\u2019s grand prize last year, for their <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/gview?url=https:\/\/page.org\/attachments\/186ec25755d3ca0b1baa4821b35cb4749e31b692\/store\/5b558cb29c2b06bfe3dea04fbcf5db1fc7e19b6a326d4678db2e15d25a83\/DOVE_-_A_PURPOSE.case.pdf\">case study<\/a>, \u201cDove: A Purpose-Driven Brand in a Crisis of Sincerity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noah Cavicchi, a COM graduate student about to complete his master\u2019s degree in public relations, took home first prize this&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16727,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"bu_prepress_billboard":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term_manual":""},"categories":[2,17],"tags":[1397,1398,1399,1396],"bu-publication":[],"discipline-type":[],"bu_edition":[],"media_type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/24374"}],"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\/16727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/24374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24376,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/24374\/revisions\/24376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24374"},{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=24374"},{"taxonomy":"discipline-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/discipline-type?post=24374"},{"taxonomy":"bu_edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu_edition?post=24374"},{"taxonomy":"media_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media_type?post=24374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}