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I can’t believe it’s already Labor Day weekend. Where did the summer go? Labor Day conjures up mixed emotions with me, and I would guess, many others. On the one hand it’s a time to pause and reflect on the achievements of the America…

Yes, an organization can withstand a PR hit when a crisis happens. Just ask the people at LiveStrong. Since 1997, LiveStrong has been working to improve the lives of those affected by cancer and has become the largest athlete charity in the world. In t…

On Wednesday, August 22, Dr. Graham Spanier, former president of Penn State University, and his lawyers went all attack-dog on former FBI director Louis Freeh and his report that blasted Spanier for failing to stop Jerry Sandusky’s child abuse on cam…

One of my favorite childhood memories is of the annual shopping excursion for school supplies, with the coveted “list” in hand and my finagling extra items to buy, such as scented Magic Markers or a locker mirror (Mom: “Are they on your list?” …

We’ve all said some pretty outrageous things that have no basis in fact or in any kind of reasoned analysis. Most of what college sophomores say, if I remember correctly, falls into that category. And when you think about it, the rhetoric during …

Now that the London Olympics are just a memory, I never thought I’d write this: I’m going to miss them. Not just the athletes and their performances that often gave me goosebumps—like “Blade Runner” Oscar Pistorius, British he…

Just went you thought there weren’t enough social media platforms for communicators to pitch stories to, here comes yet another option. On Monday, August 13, The Huffington Post unveiled HuffPostLive, a video streaming network with expectations o…

With Chick-fil-A’s same-sex marriage controversy nearly played out, the one thing about that crisis that made PR pros pause was the tragic death by heart attack of the restaurant chain’s longtime head of PR, Don Perry. While we don’t know if the …

By Jamar Hudson, PR News Writing about the Olympics has been pretty much unavoidable the last two weeks. It’s been one of those events in which every day there seems to be an opportunity to take a look at the London games and find some sort of PR ang…

So here goes: I personally despise, at the end of the day, when people drop the ball, because, at this moment in time, it is what it is. Just sayin. In that paragraph above I include what I and countless others find to be among the most annoying saying…