A publicist is a person whose job is to generate and manage publicity for a public figure, especially a celebrity, or for a work such as a book or movie. Publicists usually work at large companies handling multiple clients. See more at Publicity. Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... Publicity is the deliberate attempt to manage the publics perception of a subject. ... Celebrities often have a symbiotic relationship with photographers. ... Look up book in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed. ... Consumers are individuals or households that consume goods and services generated within the economy. ... Publicity is the deliberate attempt to manage the publics perception of a subject. ...

An older meaning of the term is closer to pamphleteer: someone who circulates ideas by publishing them, perhaps in ephemeral forms. A pamphleteer is a historical term for someone who creates or distributes pamphlets in order to get people to vote for their favourite politician or to articulate a particular political ideology. ...

Publicist is also a free web server software, created for web papers, that allows groups of people to write and publish together on the web (i.e. schools or single classes, clubs, or other groups who wish to express themselves). Now translated into both Swedish and English.

Compare to

• Agency (agent)
• Management (manager)
• Promotion (promoter)

Agency is an area of law dealing with a contractual or quasi-contractual relationship between at least two parties in which one, the principal, authorizes the other, the agent, to represent her or his legal interests and to perform legal acts that sometimes bind the principal. ... Management (from Old French ménagement the directing, from Latin manu agere to lead by the hand) characterises the process of leading and directing all or part of an organisation, often a business, through the deployment and manipulation of resources (human, financial, material, intellectual or intangible). ... Promotion is one of the four aspects of marketing. ...

See also

• Unit publicist

External links

• Cellphones at sixty paces: Can anyone stop the publicist plague?