Archive: January 2001

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This Just In…

January 15th, 2001 by

American Airlines announces plans to invest $200 million in debt financing to acquire Trans World Airlines and will offer jobs to most of TWA’s 20,000 employees (notably all of its 18,000+ union members). Spokeswomen from… Continued

Talent Wars Still Top of Mind in Corporate Communications Landscape

January 15th, 2001 by

Recruitment and retention nightmares were the subject of many a grisly watercooler chat and the cause of many a sleepless night for PR hiring managers last year. As we enter 2001, the war for talent… Continued

Mark Your Calendars!

January 15th, 2001 by

PR NEWS Seminars & PRSA present… Communications Strategies for Nonprofits & Association A Full-Day Information-Packed Seminar on April 17, 2001 Renaissance Hotel Washington, DC http://WWW.PRandMarketing.com/seminars 888/707-5814

Job Tracker

January 15th, 2001 by

PR – Senior Account Representative Boston, San Francisco, Austin Have you ever had a job you just loved? Where you get to do great things with great people and come to work jazzed and ready… Continued

IABC Offers Elite Membership

January 15th, 2001 by

Following last month’s resignation of IABC president and CEO Elizabeth Allen, the organization has established a new class of membership in an effort to solve its financial woes. (Many blame the group’s cash-guzzling Web venture,… Continued

Tchotchkes in Heaven

January 15th, 2001 by

PR agencies may collectively represent a $4 billion industry (and growing) but they don’t hold a candle to the promotional products business when it comes to bowling for client dollars. According to the Advertising Specialty… Continued

The CEO Must Die…Long Live Hillary

January 15th, 2001 by

We’ll leave the question of what women want to Mel Gibson. But we can tell you what women communicators want: An end to the glass ceiling in the PR industry. According to an annual survey… Continued

Solid PR Construction Averts Road Rage

January 15th, 2001 by

Hell hath no fury like a bunch of drivers stranded. In February of 1999, the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) disrupted the weekly travel of more than 2.25 million motorists when it began to rebuild… Continued

What, No More Parties? Agencies Sober Up, Revert to Survival Mode

January 15th, 2001 by

With predictions of a possible downturn in the economy, budget belts are tightening and Darwinian metaphors of “reinvention” have quickly returned to the lexicon of agency rhetoric. On the client side, GM is the latest… Continued

Media Insight: FamilyPC

January 8th, 2001 by

28 East 28th Street New York, NY 10016-7930 212/503-3500 Families are among the fastest-growing markets for all things digital, and FamilyPC magazine is leading the trend. Launched by Ziff-Davis in 1994, FamilyPC guides busy parents… Continued