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“Used to shop at TJ Maxx back in ’83. I don’t even know it was open then. I didn’t know Oprah then.” Who would have thought that a simple line from a rap lyric would turn a corporate brand into the talk of the Internet? When Jay-Z was reminis… | MORE »

It wasn’t long after the Colorado shooting during a midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises on July 20 that questions arose as to whether the movie would be pulled from theaters nationwide. The Wrap reported that Warner Brothers, the studio beh… | MORE »

While it’s true that the Internet and all it has to offer has propelled marketing and communications creativity to new heights, Greenpeace and Shell’s digital dust-up this summer might beg the questions: Just how high does this creativity need to g… | MORE »

We pay a price when we close our eyes to what’s going on in the world beyond our daily routines. We also pay a price when we do pay attention to that larger world. In this morning’s New York Times is a picture of a wounded child in Qusayr, … | MORE »

Given the continuing, intense media coverage of the report on the Penn State scandal by former FBI director Louis Freeh, there’s no doubt that what was in that report has hit the public like a sledgehammer. Freeh called the behavior of key figures in… | MORE »

Sometimes it’s good to go back to basics in the School of Media Relations. I am reminded of this after receiving a dozen emails this week and a few phone calls from PR professionals that were (to put it nicely) off target.  Having been on both sides… | MORE »

Like many in the U.S., I’ve been doing my best to stay cool in the midst of record-breaking heat the last couple of weeks. Living in the Washington, D.C. area, temperatures in the mid-to-upper 90s have become the norm of late. In a word, it’s been … | MORE »

Author Bill Zehme once asked Frank Sinatra, “What should a man never do in the presence of a woman?” Sinatra’s reply: “Yawn.” It doesn’t matter if you’re a man or a woman, actually. Having someone yawn in your … | MORE »

Interesting, wasn’t it, that news of the TomKat divorce hit on a Friday? Maybe not: There are two often used sayings that fit nicely into this celebrity “shocker” news: Any publicity is good publicity. And: Release bad news on a Friday afternoon…. | MORE »

A lesson we learn early in our careers is that what you write to your colleagues or verbally declare to them is rarely confidential.  Just because you stamp a “Confidential” note on the top of the memo does not make it confidential no matter how m… | MORE »