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Leaving Home

January 21st, 2002 by

G+J USA is shuttering HomeStyle, its 10-times yearly pub which was overhauled last October. Total circ had slipped 4.6 percent, and ad pages were down 26.1 percent. Not all publishers are abandoning the home front,… Continued

Barron’s Adds Tech

January 21st, 2002 by

Barron’s introduced a new Technology Week section this month, covering a variety of technology topics. The section will feature a Tech Trader column and Plugged In column. Bill Alpert, senior editor, will write Tech Trader,… Continued

War on Girls

January 21st, 2002 by

Essence launches a year-long series on “The War on Girls,” a look at the difficulties of being young, female and African-American. The series looks at the challenges and attempts to empower young African-American women with… Continued

This Just In…

January 21st, 2002 by

Texas-based Merit Industries steps into a public relations quagmire after delivering a plaque meant to honor James Earl Jones for his contributions to the civil rights movement inscribed instead with the name James Earl Ray,… Continued

Airport PR Helps Wary Travelers Cope

January 21st, 2002 by

Ken Capps serves as vice president of public affairs at Dallas-Ft. Worth International Airport, the third-busiest airport in the world. Sept. 11 was the last day of status quo operations at airports nationwide – and… Continued

Then and Now: The Evolution of Crisis Comms

January 21st, 2002 by

Today, Joseph Diorio is a VP of PR with Boyd Tamney Cross in Wayne, Pa. But 20 years ago, he was working as a communications specialist at IBM on the day a former employee drove… Continued

Enron Crisis Powers Down

January 21st, 2002 by

The Enron debacle is the crisis du jour in business and political circles, a disaster that one crisis expert calls “a lesson in how to do everything wrong.” The company’s reputation has been demolished among… Continued

Editor’s Note

January 14th, 2002 by

The tactics featured in this first installment of “Strategy of The Week” — and more — are featured in the just published PR NEWS Book of 100 Best Case Studies in PR, a compilation of… Continued

Webcasting Takes Flight When Airplanes Are Grounded

January 14th, 2002 by

Within hours of the deadly Sept. 11 attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C., it became painfully clear to managers at Putnam Investments that staff, brokers and stockholders needed, as quickly as possible, comprehensive… Continued

Career

January 14th, 2002 by

The job market may not be looking up, but with the rightresolutions, 2002 could be a year for great professional growth, according to Tracey Turner, executive director of The CreativeGroup, a staffing firm specializing in… Continued