This blogger’s anonymous tip box is something like the “leave a penny, take a penny” jar in that it can be both used and abused. Now, I have received a couple of good story ideas via “the box.” But more than anything I’ll miss opening my email account each morning to find little nuggets of wisdom like the following list of my favorite anonymous PRNewser tips, reprinted verbatim for your amusement:

“good”

Glad you think so!

“stupid, stupid, ignorant, sophomoric, get a pizza pie in the face you”

Say hi to your mother for me!

“for dry skin ini winter, add 4 to 5 drops of lemon juice in 4 table spoon of cream mix it well and apply it on your face. now rub it gently and after 10 mins wash your face with warm water. your skin will become soft.”

Thanks! Now my skin is super soft!

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Dear Readers,

It is with a somewhat heavy heart that I revert to the first person this afternoon to let you know that Friday will be my last day editing PRNewser. I’ve accepted a position at a digital agency (think Peggy Olson circa season 4), and while I didn’t expect this career shift to arrive quite so soon, you know what they say: when it rains it pours, and when raindrops keep falling on your head you make lemonade. Or something like that.

I know, I know: It hasn’t even been nine months since I started, which is why this goodbye feels exciting, bittersweet and even slightly premature at the same time. As a dedicated cynic I would generally refrain from making boring generalizations about how fortunate I’ve been to work here, but in this case it’s all true. This has been a dream job for me, but even as I’ve developed a much greater appreciation for the topsy-turvy world of public relations, I’ve also come to realize that I’m not quite cut out to be a flack. I’m really more of a Milford Man…

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Today in Shameless Self-Promotion, we have a few key questions for ambitious, experienced public relations professionals:

• Are you a well-schooled PR veteran?
• Do you have a history of working for major firms and serving big-name clients?
• Do you closely follow current developments within the industry?
• Are  your own experiences entering the field and working your way up the career ladder relevant to today’s graduates and other professionals who wish to enter the crazy, colorful world of PR?
• Are you ready to teach students how to get their feet in the door and how to master the basics of the business?
• Are you comfortable developing a syllabus/lesson plan, hosting interactive discussions and reviewing students’ work?

If you answered yes to all of these questions, you may be just the person that Mediabistro needs to teach its upcoming 6-week “Introduction to Public Relations” class!

UPDATE: The instructor position has been filled, but Mediabistro will continue to hold courses relating to PR and other disciplines. To enter our pool of potential instructors, please submit a resume to learn.info@mediabistro.com.

We’re happy to announce that our longtime PRNewser freelance editor Joe Ciarallo will be joining the mediabistro.com team full time, effective today. Joe will be expanding on current PRNewser content as well as producing other PR related events, classes and Webcasts for Mediabistro. He has been with us from the start, working to grow PRNewser from its inception to one of the most widely read PR industry news sites.

He comes to us from the Horn Group, a digital communications agency in Manhattan, where he worked with a number of technology and digital media companies.

“It’s been amazing to see how PRNewser has grown and changed over the last two years. From our humble beginnings as a WordPress blog (hopefully the long time readers will remember those days) to being considered a key industry source of news, I think we’re just getting started,” said Ciarallo. “I can imagine one question people may ask will be about my awesome co-editor Jason Chupick. Jason is of course continuing to lend his well chosen words and insight to PRNewser and will remain on as co-editor.”

Expect to see a lot more activity on PRNewser and more PR industry resources overall from mediabistro.com.

[Photo credit: Kelly Samardak]