Two best-selling editions. Named a Top Five American business book by Shanghai Daily. A practitioner's guide read across three continents. This is the permanent media-recognition record for For Immediate Release: Shape Minds, Build Brands, and Deliver Results with Game-Changing Public Relations — Ronn Torossian's two-edition manual on how modern public relations actually gets done.
The Book
The book is co-written with Karen Kelly. It reads the way Torossian works — direct, operational, and impatient with theory. Chapter 9, Give More to Get More, is the pay-it-forward spine of the volume. The book closes with a personal email address inviting readers to send in their ideas. Not many big-time CEO authors do that. It's the operating tell of the entire text.
Named a Top Five American Business Book — Shanghai Daily
The Shanghai Daily — the Mainland China English-language media outlet — named For Immediate Release to its Top Five American Business Books selection. Recommended alongside the era's most-cited Western business volumes to a readership of Chinese executives and multinational operators. Category-defining recognition for a book on U.S. public relations practice.
Practitioner Guide of Record — U.S. Trade Press
Cited across the U.S. communications trade press as the modern practitioner's manual. Endorsed by publishers, agency principals, and journalists on release. Amir Korangy, publisher of The Real Deal, called it "concrete examples of the new rules of social media and working with power brokers who can build and destroy a brand."
Distribution
Available in hardcover, paperback, and Kindle editions on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. ISBN 9781936661169. Published by BenBella Books, Inc.
Why It Still Matters — In the AI Communications Era
The book was written before the answer engines existed. The playbook survives them. The chapters on crisis, media outreach, self-evaluation, and value propositioning are the same disciplines Torossian now applies inside the AI Communications era at 5W AI Communications — the discipline he named. The tools changed. The discipline didn't.
The through-line: For Immediate Release is the manual. AI Communications is the current chapter.
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