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
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It’s a Wonder We Get Any Work Done
May 17th, 2004 by PRNEWSIt 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 PRNEWSOprah 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 PRNEWSWhile 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 PRNEWSThe 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 PRNEWSWhat 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
Maybe Celebrity is the Opiate of the Masses, After all…
May 17th, 2004 by PRNEWSBauer Publishing is making another entry into the already-crammed precincts for pop culture magazines. The Englewood Cliffs, NJ-based publisher, which made a big splash in the celebrity magazine market with its 2002 launch of In… Continued
A PR Agenda For The Frightened
May 17th, 2004 by PRNEWSBy Richard Laermer People seem scared to move too rapidly. Is it the war? The fear of the unknown in a mercurial economic environment? Or does the dot-com bust still affect our brains, what with… Continued
Finding the ROI in CSR
May 17th, 2004 by PRNEWSObservers say a well-crafted report on corporate social responsibility can benefit a corporation in a number of ways, including perceived investor confidence and, perhaps most significantly, positive brand recognition. PriceWaterhouseCoopers analysts have said that such… Continued
CSR PR Awards Winner/CSR Report: Fergus/Peters Group-Potash Corp.: Pitching PR for the Environment
May 17th, 2004 by PRNEWSWhen you’re the world’s largest producer of fertilizer and feed nutrients – things like nitrogen, phosphate and potash – the world wants to know what you are up to. Plundering the land? Dumping toxins? If… Continued