Archive: October 1999

Move over Smith Barney. The feds are now offering financial planning assistance. This week the Social Security Administration (SSA) launches the largest customized mailing ever undertaken by a federal agency with the distribution of SS… Continued

Seventy-eight percent of U.S. adults believe there is bias in the news media, and that powerful people or organizations can influence a newspaper to "spike or spin" a story, according to the Journalism Credibility Project,… Continued

PR NEWS has just published the Annual Directory of PR Services, one of the industry’s largest directories of companies and agencies offering services ranging from media relations measurement to crisis management. The directory, which was… Continued

Crisis communications guru Al Tortorella has left his post at UST to return to Burson-Marsteller as managing director of the agency’s corporate and financial practice. Tortorella is perhaps best known for his role in the… Continued

We aren’t sure if it was faith in the government or faith in a higher power that prompted a recent Y2K endorsement made by U.S. Senator Robert F. Bennett. Speaking at the National Press Club,… Continued

DENVER – This year, violence catapulted the Denver metro area and its local hospital communicators into the national media spotlight. In April, two troubled teens shot and killed 12 classmates and a teacher before committing… Continued

PR Account Management-Account Representatives through Senior Account Managers We’re Lois Paul & Partners, a leading national high- tech Public Relations agency with offices in Boston, MA, San Francisco, CA and Austin, TX. At Lois Paul… Continued

Your Guide To Upcoming Special Issues & Features ALBERTA LOGGING NEWS Editorial: Manufactured Forest Products. The first issue for the new year will cover world markets for forest products. New plants to be used and… Continued

Even if you’re nauseated every time you hear a cliched reference to the "Information Superhighway," you can’t help but admit it’s the perfect metaphor for Porsche Cars North America’s digital press site, www.press.porsche.com. Two years… Continued

October 6-8 Automotive Public Relations Council Conference, Automotive Public Relations Council, Detroit, MI, 919/549-4800, www.aprc-online.org October 7-8 A New Model for Corporate Activism, Global Public Affairs Institute, The Dorchester, London, England, 212/461-1782, www.gpai.org October 12… Continued