Free Public Relations Course
Public Relations and Strategic Communication
Learn how audience needs shape a message in this free public relations course. Join the lessons to connect media outreach, crisis planning, and measurement with communication choices that inform readers instead of just promoting.
About this course
The free public relations course shows you how audience needs influence a message, a media pitch, and a wider communication plan. You learn the difference between earned coverage and other communication channels before studying press releases and journalist outreach. This helps you connect the story you want to tell with the information a reader or reporter actually needs.
Strategic communication training online also covers reputation, stakeholder relationships, and crisis response. You link goals and measures with a campaign instead of judging results only by the amount of coverage. FTC disclosure lessons introduce US disclosure requirements for influencer relationships, helping you understand why commercial connections need to be transparent. You gain a beginner framework for planning and evaluating PR activity, while recognizing that a course cannot guarantee media coverage or replace legal review of a sensitive public statement.
Course outline
Introduction to Public Relations: Concepts, Models, and Process
The module will introduce you to the definitions of PR, PR history models, the RACE model, audience identification, and PR ethics in the US industry.
Building Effective Media Relationships and Press Strategies
The module will introduce you to writing press releases, media pitching, journalist management, media kits creation, and earned coverage monitoring.
Crafting Strategic Messages and PR Content
The module will introduce you to PR message templates, audience segmentation, storytelling, thought leadership, and managing your content calendar.
Managing Brand Presence Across Digital and Social Channels
The module will introduce you to social listening, influencer marketing, digital reputation management, PR SEO, and monitoring engagement.
Navigating Crises: Communication Strategies and Reputation Recovery
The module will introduce you to risk assessment, crisis planning, tactics for the first 24 hours of a crisis, spokesperson management, and crisis reputation management.
Engaging Stakeholders: Employees, Investors, and Communities
The module will introduce you to stakeholder mapping, internal communication, basic principles of investor relations, public affairs, and corporate social responsibility programs.
Planning and Executing Integrated PR Campaigns
The module will introduce you to setting SMART objectives, campaign budgeting, PR for product launches, executing events, and integrating PR into the entire marketing strategy.
Measuring PR Impact and Navigating Ethics & Law
The module will introduce you to PR evaluation metrics, share of voice of media, FTC disclosure, copyright, defamation, and ethics.
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