By Erin McGraw
After a wet and windy spring here on the North Side, summer looks like it is finally here to stay. While I’m excited for seasonal sun, I notice every summer my wallet empties in a hurry when I hit the local patio bars and street fests. So in an effort to help myself [...]
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Over the past five years the tea industry has grown an astounding 32 percent. As Americans are becoming more health conscious and concerned about their consumption of caffeine, they are seeking alternatives to coffee. The answer to coffee cravers prayers? Tea. Over the next couple years the tea market is estimated to grow [...]
By Matt Bellendir
“Journalism keeps you planted in the earth” – Ray Bradbury, American fiction writer. For PR pros, the AP Stylebook is the provider of the seeds necessary to grow, be it in your skill set or career as a whole. The book’s yearly publication updates offer new and trending grammar guidelines laid out for [...]
By Matthew Bellendir
Aut viam inveniam aut faciam. This has been a long standing life motto of mine and for those unfamiliar, it is a Latin saying that roughly translates to “I will either find a way or make one.” I am driven by hard work and motivation to succeed in life. What do I mean by [...]
By Alexandra Brown and Caroline Baumgartner
Things have been heating up around the Motion PR office, from our new clients and new intern joining the team to a slew of clients taking advantage of one of Chicago’s favorite summer past times: events.
Nothing beats the Chicago scene during the summer. The city skyline is the perfect backdrop [...]
By Alexandra Brown
You wrote your resume. You edited it. You edited it again. You researched countless public relations agencies, applied, followed up and followed up again. You secured multiple interviews, wrote your thank you notes and finally received the long-waited phone call with the news you had been longing for: You got the job.
Many young [...]
By Courtney Cardenas
In early April, as I shuffled my way out of Union Station for my first day at Motion PR I was excited to gain experience in the industry; yet I had no idea what to expect. My time here at MPR has been a great learning experience on many levels and I not only learned a great deal about [...]
By Courtney Cardenas
Recent changes in the media scene have saddened PR pros from Chicago and beyond as we mourn the loss of a long-time Naperville Sun journalist and the disappearance of one of our go-to food blogs.
Accomplished journalist Tim West, a man who has distinguished the Naperville Sun, passed away last week at age 66 [...]
By Erin McGraw
After only a couple of short weeks at Motion PR I felt as if I had been in the business for months. My first two weeks at Motion PR were jam-packed with a variety of assignments for an array of clients, from pitching for the French school Lycée Français de Chicago and Red Bull [...]
By Alexandra Brown
Like many others, my life was touched by cancer. When I was 11, my grandmother lost her battle to lung cancer and I remember the emotional and physical toll it took on her. While she found ways to make light of it when she could (she once ripped off her itchy wig in [...]
