Not for Attribution: A Treasury of Public Relations/Public Affairs Anecdotes

Jon. L. Allen

Feb 2000 · Xlibris Corporation

About this eBook

The foibles of clients and idiosyncrasies of chief executive officers, told as only their public relations and public affairs staffers can, make for amusing, wry and true stories in Not For Attribution. Annual meetings, annual reports, press conferences, media relations and special events dont always go as planned, sometimes with hilarious results. Not For Attribution is the first ever volume to contain more than two hundred such entertaining anecdotes, contributed by members of their rapidly-growing profession with "real world" experience.

About the author

Jon L. Allen was employed as a corporate public relations executive for twenty-seven years in the airline, petroleum and mining industries. Prior to that he was a reporter and feature writer for two New England daily newspapers.

Educated in California and Canada, he graduated from Yale University with a degree in European history. He then served for five years as a navigator, instructor navigator and public affairs officer in the United States Air Force. He continued as an active reservist for twenty-seven years, during the last eight years assigned to the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs.

He is the author of three books on travel, aviation and Texas, as well as numerous magazine articles. He and his wife have been residents of Texas since l982. They have two children and five grandchildren.