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Bob Brody, a media consultant and essayist in Italy, is author of the memoir “Playing Catch with Strangers: A Family Guy (Reluctantly) Comes of Age.” His humor has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times and The Guardian, among other publications. He can be reached at [email protected] or on LinkedIn.

Stories by Bob Brody

•	Your Pitch Was Rejected: How To Survive—And Flourish (Career Advice) Fri., Nov. 7, 2025 The reporter said no. You took it hard. But rejection can actually make you stronger. Here's how.

•	Going Out On Your Own: How To Know You’re Ready (Career Advice) Tue., Oct. 14, 2025 Think you're ready to set up your own shop? Think again. Here's how you'll know.

•	What Every PR Client Needs (It Starts with a 'P') (Leadership) Fri., Jul. 11, 2025 Some clients have plenty of it, or at least enough, and that's good. But others run out of it too soon, and that's no good at all.

•	Why I Fail Successfully In PR — And How You Can, Too (Career Advice) Fri., Apr. 11, 2025 Failure, especially if it happens repeatedly, leaves a great deal to be desired. That's just a given.

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Top 14 Lessons About PR That I Plan To Apply In '25 (Career Advice) Mon., Feb. 24, 2025 Come the end of one year, you may be lucky enough to have picked up some valuable insights about how to practice public relations that might inspire you in the next. At least that’s how it usually goes for me, pushing 34 years in the business.

•	Beware: We Now Outnumber Reporters Six To One (Media Relations) Mon., Jun. 10, 2024 Just as the news media business is shrinking, the PR business – often playing the role of its partner—is expanding. Is that good or bad? And for whom?

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Memo To PR Pros: How Bad Is The News Going To Be This Year? (Media Relations) Wed., Jan. 31, 2024 The news in 2024 is going to be worse than anything that happened last year. Just a little heads-up here for all you PR pros out there planning to get crazy opportunistic in your media relations activities.

•	It Was The Worst Day Of My Career, But She Made It Manageable (Career Advice) Tue., Nov. 21, 2023 At about 9 a.m. on April 17, 2008, an executive vice president at Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide asked me to come to her office. I had no idea why, least of all at so early an hour.

•	A Labor Day Lesson Learned (Career Advice) Sat., Sep. 2, 2023 With a looming recession on the doorstep in late 2007, senior managers at my agency met one morning to discuss the inevitable—layoffs at our firm.

•	Why I'm Seeing Double  (Humor) Tue., Mar. 14, 2023 Folklore holds that every person on the planet somewhere has a twin. Some years back I met mine.  Yes, another me. Just what the world needs, right?

•	Why You Should Never 'Fake' Authenticity (Career Advice) Wed., Feb. 8, 2023 Some years back my boss told me what nobody had ever told me before. And it happened to be the truth. Here's what she said, and how it helped define my career.

•	Why I'm Definitely - Or At Least Probably - Going to Quit Pitching The News Media (PR Commentary) Wed., Dec. 14, 2022 ​Come the new year, I plan to stop doing something I've done all but nonstop, week in and week out, since 1991. Pitching the news media.

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David Rosen: White Collar By Day, Blue Collar By Night (PR Commentary) Fri., Dec. 2, 2022 In 2011, David Rosen took a ride in the back of an ambulance speeding toward a hospital, siren wailing. But rather than getting medical attention, he was giving it. The former pharmaceutical industry executive had recently become an emergency medical technician (EMT).

•	Why The Noun 'Content' May Deserve A Quick Death (Professional Development) Fri., Mar. 18, 2022 It used to be whatever came in a box. Now it's a synonym for writing and much else.

•	Let's Stay in Touch in 2022 (PR Commentary) Fri., Jan. 14, 2022 Our relentless attempts at communication threaten to render us incommunicado. The push for planned obsolescence may come for us next.

  

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