Archive: May 2001

iPublish.com, a new launch from AOL Time Warner, gives undiscovered authors a leg up through an online community where aspiring writers can submit their works to be considered for publication. Selected titles will be published… Continued

FOX News channel and Forbes Magazine are teaming up to produce a weekly business-oriented news show, “Forbes on Fox” that will explore breaking news, political, government and market issues from Forbes’ contrarian point of view.… Continued

Salon.com dips into the pennies-per-share range. At press time, its NASDAQ price listed at 34 cents per share. min’s New Media Report this week predicts the site’s demise within three months, faulting the launch of… Continued

You don’t know crisis management until you’ve had to deal with Clinton administration animosity (Janet Reno in particular), a botched investigation of nuclear weapons scientist Wen Ho Lee and the arrest of one of your… Continued

Verizon, Reebok, and IBM.com communications execs reveal best practices at the Conference Board’s 2001 Corporate Communications Conference, May 22-23 at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York.

Getting bearish on your PR budget? The Medialink Group, a San Francisco-based PR agency, is offering a new program designed to teach companies how to lean more heavily on their internal PR resources – and… Continued

PR Newswire is enhancing its eWatch software to allow for more thorough Web monitoring of company mentions and misinformation. eWatch 4.0 gives clients continuous updates along with circulation measurement data. Jupiter Media Metrix is partnering… Continued

Customer service managers sometimes look at Dave Radanovich like he has two heads, but that’s all part of teaching them the importance of effective communications. Columbia Gas’s vice president for communications plays the role of… Continued

Other PR shops may be throwing in the towel, but Boston-based Sterling Hager, technology PR specialist, is forging ahead with the opening of a Washington, D.C. office, the firm’s second new office in eight months.… Continued

CEOs must actively communicate “value plans” to Wall Street and other stakeholders or risk not making it to their second anniversary, according to a recent study from Ketchum’s Reputation Lab. A survey of 1,000 individual… Continued