What Makes a Corporate Event Newsworthy? The PR–Event Management Connection
Title - What Makes a Corporate Event Newsworthy? The PR–Event Management Connection A corporate event can look impressive in person and still have very little to say once it is over. The guest list may be strong. The venue may look great. There may be photographs, speeches and a packed schedule. But none of these things automatically make an event newsworthy. For the media, there needs to be a reason to cover what happened. Something that has relevance outside the room. That is where event management and PR start working together. It starts before the event itself Newsworthiness should not be an afterthought. If a company is planning a conference, product launch or industry gathering, there should be some thought about what makes this particular event worth talking about. Maybe there is an announcement. Maybe the right people are coming together to discuss an issue that is already being talked about. That matters when an Event Management Company is planning the event too. The job...