press agent:
(plural: ‘press agents‘; in short ‘P A‘; for the right pronunciation, please click here)
‘press’, in this context = all the newspapers, magazines, TV news channels and other publicity media & also called ‘P R man’, ‘Public Relations Man’, ‘Public Relations Officer‘ & ‘Publicity Man’
a press agent, the last of his kind
a person/employee whose job is to arrange advertising and publicity (making known to everybody) by providing attractive photos, videos and other news items and articles to the Newspapers and TVs so that the person or business firm that employs him/her gets good name in the public,
a team of press agents
e.g.
Though an actress is very talented, she needs an efficient press agent to expose her talent to the public in the right way.
Several companies hire more than one press agent to promote their names.
