Archive: February 2001

New Portal All About Headlines. It’s one thing to launch a Web site in these troubled times for dotcoms, it’s another to launch a portal. Internet pundits have declared portals, or collections of links to… Continued

Effective Communication To help Slow The Slowdown. As companies shrink in size in anticipation of a waning economy, communications employees should work to boost morale – and preserve a company’s positive brand identity, according to… Continued

Ernst & Young national director of external communications James D. Speros has been named “Communicator of the Year” by the Business Marketing Association of New York. The Chicago-based association of business-to-business marketers gives the annual… Continued

I know, it seems frivolous, but it really does matter what you wear when you do a television interview. You can nail that interview, give the reporter amazingly erudite answers and appear confident and in… Continued

If chipper M&A news constituted the refrain in every business success set to music in 1999, layoffs are the recurring theme in the more somber Greek tragedies now playing out in early 2001. And we’re… Continued

CosmoGIRL! Magazine 224 West 57th Street 3rd Floor New York, NY 10019 212/841-8473 http://www.cosmogirl.com Move over, diamonds. Cosmo wants to be a girl’s best friend. That’s the motto behind Cosmopolitan’s little sister spinoff, CosmoGIRL! Magazine,… Continued

Back when we were sitting in on Journalism 101, we learned that if you come across news that’s dripping with irony, write about it. Well, here’s some: J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series… Continued

Mercedes M. Cardona was promoted from reporter to financial editor of Advertising Age. [email protected]… IndustryWeek managing editor George Taninecz has departed, replaced by Tonya Vinas. 216-696-7000…. Former Newsday foreign correspondent Roy Gutman joins Newsweek’s Washington,… Continued

In the February 5th issue of PRN we mistakenly reported that This Old House magazine was being razed in the wake of consolidation in the magazine industry. The Time Inc. title is actually alive and… Continued

If you’ve got a video news reel (or VNR) that’s angling auto-safety, there’s a good chance broadcast news hounds will run it. This is according to stats from New York-based video production company Medialink, which… Continued