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State of the Media: Lean, Mean And No Press Releases, Please

March 26th, 2001 by

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

Media Moves

March 26th, 2001 by

Suzan Revah shifts from online deputy news editor to news editor of the Industry Standard.srevah@thestandard.com…Michael Fitzgerald, Red Herring Magazineexecutive news editor, now writes a bi-weekly column called In the Shadow of the Valley, which provides… Continued

Media Trends

March 26th, 2001 by

Beer-guzzling couch potatoes aren’t the only ones obsessed with sports these days. Newspapers carry more news about sports than any other topic, according to a recent study from the Readership Institute at Northwestern University in… Continued

Media Hotsheet

March 26th, 2001 by

ESPN Radio Broadcasts Online. It’s a no-brainer for radio stations–expand to the Web and you can potentially claim the entire world as your audience. ESPN Radio, provider of sports news, interviews and commentary to more… Continued

This Just In…

March 26th, 2001 by

In response to immiment layoffs, Procter & Gamble has created a job status hotline to handle staff concerns. Inside sources say 40% of the workforce might be laid off. Torie Clarke may be leaving her… Continued

Journalists Sound Off About PR

March 26th, 2001 by

What’s a media-relations issue of PRN without a little insight from the media? We asked our editorial colleagues at PBI and elsewhere to reveal their PR pet peeves, as well as some of the smart… Continued

Media Hotsheet

March 19th, 2001 by

Jump Jumps to YM One of America’s largest magazine publishers has announced plans to acquire Jump magazine. G+J USA will buy the publication’s subscriber list and trademark from Weider Publications and roll them into YM,… Continued

Loose Lips Sink Ships … and PR Campaigns

March 19th, 2001 by

Most PR professionals are smart enough to realize that spreading sensitive client material can mean, at best, the end of a career and at worst, a federal indictment. Juanita Yvette Lozano, formerly an employee of… Continued

Advocacy With A Conscience: Just Do It!

March 19th, 2001 by

Second of two parts Global corporations are wising up to the fact that their reputations rest largely in the palms of influential activists’ hands – like grenades. And the savvier companies are taking monumental precautions… Continued

Open Mike

March 19th, 2001 by

A recent issue of PR NEWS mentioned New York-based production company Medialink’s top-performing video news releases for 2000. Below, L.P. Phillips, a manager at VNR-1 Communications in Dallas, takes issue with how the company measures… Continued