Stories by PRNEWS

Media Metrics

May 24th, 2004 by

Here’s one instance where the term “heading south” doesn’t have a negative connotation. Several newspapers throughout the region — the Orlando Sentinel, Atlanta Journal- Constitution and the Dallas Morning News, for example — share the… Continued

Image Patrol: Gap Inc./Wal-Mart…

May 24th, 2004 by

Gap’s PR Falls Into Place While Wal-Mart’s is a Mess This month we profile two of the world’s best-known brands in a classic face-off between proactive versus reactive public relations. Gap Inc. this week released… Continued

The Table: Making Room for PR/IR Execs

May 24th, 2004 by

By Gene Marbach/Group Vice President, Makovsky & Co. Few PR and IR counselors can think like securities analysts, write like journalists and plan like generals. If you can, stop reading. Most likely, you already have… Continued

CEOs Still Need Convincing that PR is Valuable

May 24th, 2004 by

After the Exxon Valdez spilled almost 11 million gallons of crude oil into Prince William Sound in 1989, Alan Hilburg, who was then running his own reputation management firm, got a call from an Exxon… Continued

Correction

May 17th, 2004 by

In the Media Insight (May 10) profile of Information Security it was incorrectly stated that Chief Information Security Officers (the bulk of the magazine’s readers) report to the CEO. They report to the company’s Chief… Continued

It’s a Wonder We Get Any Work Done

May 17th, 2004 by

It has all the makings of a new reality show: J.Q. Public lumbers out of bed and from the time he wakes up until the time he says good night is followed by researchers tracking… Continued

A Few More Zeroes for the O Franchise…

May 17th, 2004 by

Oprah Winfrey, the queen of the daytime yak shows, and one of the world’s richest entertainers, has a new knockoff from her wildly successful O (2.5 million-circulation). It’s called O at Home, a newsstand-only run… Continued

And Nothing But the Best…

May 17th, 2004 by

While EPIC Media gives men “everything” Rodale Inc. wants to give them the “best.” So the publisher of Men’s Health has launched the bimonthly knockoff Best Life, with the tagline “What Matters to Men.” The… Continued

(Finally), There is EVERYTHING for Men…

May 17th, 2004 by

The so-called laddie-boy magazines, such as FHM, Maxim and Stuff, have proved in the last several years that men (in droves) will read magazines if you give them what they want; in the case of… Continued

A Magazine CMOs Can Finally Call Their Own…

May 17th, 2004 by

What took so long? Chief marketing officers are the shock absorbers in corporate America, coordinating all the various business silos, including PR, into (they hope) a coherent marketing plan that can generate sales and take… Continued