Archive: July 2002

National News: Maria Menounos, former international correspondent for Channel One news, joins “Entertainment Tonight” as a correspondent. Menounos will report on film, television, music and fashion. For more information, call Brad Bessey, producer, at the… Continued

With vacation season upon us, we’re spending more time talking to voice mailboxes than to PR practitioners, a phenomenon which unhappily reminds us of a key media relations mantra: In a 24/7 news environment, there… Continued

Yahoo will shut down its financial news program, Yahoo FinanceVision, and Yahoo Radio, which broadcasts material from traditional radio stations over the Internet. The company says its gamble on Web broadcasting has been unprofitable. (Yahoo:… Continued

Got a great local angle for your pitch? Go straight to the online editors. Online newspapers are the top source of local news and information online for Web surfers who read newspapers online. Those users… Continued

ePregnancy.com will launched a monthly print publication in June with a 466,000-copy first run. The Web site is wildly popular, with 500,000 unique users per month and more than 5 million page views, according to… Continued

Upside magazine relaunched its daily news site, Upside.com, last week after eliminating its daily Web coverage due to adverse economic conditions last fall. The site will be managed by the editorial team that produces the… Continued

The latest crisis of corporate trust unfolds at WorldCom as yet another major corporation reveals improper accounting practices. The word from John Sidgmore, CEO, in a statement released to the media: He and fellow members… Continued

Corridors of power? Ashleigh Adams has been there and done that. Adams graduated from the University of Southern California and went on to serve as press deputy to Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan. In a… Continued

Leave it to Microsoft to brand its online press center. The e-newsroom, dubbed PressPass, features such a wealth of information it boggles the mind. Obviously, the software behemoth has more messaging, more white papers, more… Continued