Archive: March 2001

Regulation full disclosure is giving journalists unprecedented access to company information, but in an ironic twist, it may be making business leaders less accessible. In a panel discussion of finance leaders and journalists hosted last… Continued

When it comes to the dotcom shakeout, the bigger they are has nothing to do with how hard they fall. A new report from San Francisco-based firm Applied Communications investigates the most visible dotcom crashes… Continued

America Online is dealing with a PR backlash this week after it mistakenly deleted hundreds of thousands of emails. The Dulles, VA-based Web company, according to EarthLink Director of Corporate Communications Arley Baker, blocked EarthLink… Continued

Hill and Knowlton Vice Chairman Frank Mankiewicz returned last week from Europe-a hotbed of breaking news. In France and the U.K., health officials are working feverishly to contain hoof-and-mouth disease, an animal virus doing considerable… Continued

By Paul Shinoff One tech reporter calls them “bunnies,” the young PR staffers who bounce from pitch call to pitch call – to the annoyance of journalistic colleagues. Having spent some years in senior positions… Continued

SAN FRANCISCO — Are journalists obligated to write the stories that companies feed them? Do CEOs fall victim to their own delusions? Where do PR pros fit in? Are they messengers to kill or oracles… Continued

Nearly 100 technology industry insiders attended MonsterBuzz 2001 on March 20 at the historic Memorial Marines’ Club & Hotel at Union Square. Freelance writer Colin Berry reports the conference buzz from tech journalists and industry… Continued

PR Campaign Uses Focus Groups and Market Research AARP is not your grandmother’s trade association nor is it any longer that senior citizen group once known as the American Association of Retired Persons. That’s the… Continued

Media relations gurus have been boogying nonstop to update their relationship databases in the wake of Q1 layoffs inside such media empires as AOL Time Warner, Disney/ABC and new economy pubs Industry Standard and Business… Continued

Boston College Center for Corporate Community Relations http://infoeagle.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/csom/cccr Businesses for Social Responsibility http://www.bsr.org Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies http://www.ceres.org Conference Board http://www.conference-board.org Corporate Watch http://www.corpwatch.org Ethics Resource Center http://www.ethics.org Global Witness http://www.globalwitness.org International Labour Org.… Continued