Archive: July 2003

Make sure PR has a role in your company’s legal strategy. Join PR NEWS on August 19 for our 90-minute Webinar, Managing PR & Legal Concerns in a Post-Enron, Post-Martha Environment.” Featured speakers include Richard… Continued

While they have been around for many years, Weblogs — or blogs — are starting to gain significant traction among Web users, as the Google search engine integrates blogger and blogging tools into its new… Continued

Forbes Inc. 28. W. 23rd St. New York, NY 10010 http://www.forbes.com The Windup The editorial mission at Forbes.com is noble: to make its readers richer and smarter. Notes Paul Maidment, editor of the site: “We… Continued

Jolie Hunt ([email protected]) recently took over as PR director for the North American region of The Financial Times. The salmon-colored daily, which launched in the U.S. in 1997, has struggled against the ad recession stateside… Continued

Broadcaster Jim Hill, the founder and Chairman Emeritus of News Broadcast Network (NBN), died July 4 at the age of 84 in Claremont, Calif., after a brief illness. Hill, whose 65-year career spanned nearly every… Continued

There were a couple of media episodes last week that, taken together, beg several PR questions. The first was the vituperative comments made by MSNBC commentator Michael Savage that cost him his job with the… Continued

The study reinforces the need for companies to listen carefully to Web site visitors’ queries and be prepared to provide accurate information about their operations. Communication executives should also study what certain companies have done… Continued

The Web is starting to serve up more and more dish, and online opinion leaders are eating it up with a spoon. So to make sure they’re getting the right info, corporate communication executives need… Continued

There’s a reason they call it a “hostile” takeover. In early June, mega software player Oracle Corp. offered $5.1 billion for rival PeopleSoft and upped the ante to $6.3 billion on June 18. The board… Continued

The timing was a bit curious. A little more than a week after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to rule on whether the First Amendment protected a Nike publicity campaign to counter charges that Asian… Continued