Every Wednesday I come into the DSR offices in Leederville and have a long week full list of emails to work through. Straight away my supervisor had a manageable amount of news stories ready for getting ‘meaty’ information and to submit to the DSR website.
After a day full of emails and phone calls to and fro, I had written, tweaked and perfected four lovely news ready for approving and uploading to the website. After a few slight changes to commas, quotation marks and full stops from the supervisor the stories were ready to be revealed to the world, or anyone who visited the DSR website.
Not only do I now know that a quotation mark goes before the full stop, I have a very proud and impressed mother.
Here are the web links to the news items I uploaded all by my lonesome last week
When people ask me what I do at uni, PR needs some explanation. Most people say “Whats that?. They genuinely have no idea. As the unit is somewhat new to university, I get a kick about describing what the profession entails. I usually say, I get all the information , conduct the interviews and type up the story then send it to the journalist who then does what they wish to it, then hopefully it ends up in the papers. People seem pretty impressed by that statement and it makes me really like public relations. I know that it’s not all that it entails but I guess its my favourite part so far.
Until more published stories (hopefully).
Cheers
Emma
