PRrag, huh?
Public relations rag is journalistic jargon for something that looks, feels and smells like a newspaper but is actually used to further a marketing agenda and promote certain issues.
I created PRrag.com in 2006 as a blog that found issues that create a buzz and trace that buzz back to its roots. The site now serves as my personal weblog and portal to the world.
My skills are in logo design, page layout, design standards, flyers/promotional materials, news/feature/copy writing, fiction, photo and video editing and website design.
I don’t work in public relations or marketing. Actually, I work as a news reporter, but don’t tell that to anyone I went to college with.
I spent my formative college years as Vice President for Public Relations in the Notheastern University Student Government Association, and Director of Public Relations for the Xi-Beta Chapter of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity, where I quickly became known as “the PR guy,” doing interviews and live shots on Boston’s television networks about college issues. Greek organizations and student governments have it tough, especially in student-run media, and I worked to cultivate a more proper image for my organizations.
Midway through Northeastern, I was approached by one of my professors, a great media instructor named Gladys McKie, about starting a double degree program in Journalism and recently graduated with degrees in Journalism and Criminal Justice.
I began my media career in 1997, at age 14, reviewing software and video games for SharewareJunkies, an old-school type of site. I was also a Geocities community leader, back when the Internet was still something to explore and craft out a home in. Then Yahoo! came in and bought Geocities up. The site is now a pitiful remnant of the Golden Age of the World Wide Web.
I started up my own reviews portal, The Review Center in 1999, at 16. I supervised dozens of writers and saw through to hundreds of news articles detailing the birth of Playstation 2, the death of Dreamcast and the fall of GT Interactive Software. I sold Reviewcenter.com to Reviewcentre.com in 2004.
PRrag sprang up last year when I got the itch to start writing about tech and current issues again. You can blame my yet undetermined state of either ADHD, impatience or ambition on that one.
At midnight on January 1, 2007, Blast Magazine launched. Blast is an online news source. You can read all about it and the people that contribute to it here. The three people I’ll single out are Liz Raftery, Dan Peleschuk and Micah Warren.
I am a suburban news correspondent for The Boston Globe. I also write for the Globe’s City and Region, City/Weekly, Business, Sidekick, Living/Arts and Food sections whenever I can.
I love to try new things. At 24, my jobs have included one-hour photo tech, video store clerk, security guard, web designer, apprentice HVAC technician, (working for my uncle — I made dean’s list the next two semesters after that summer of manual labor) waiter, bartender, caterer, messenger, mutual fund customer service representative and substitute teacher.
Site credits:
Layout and articles: John Guilfoil
Header Image Photography: Aram Boghosian
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