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Catastrophe Creates Fodder for the Press Release Mill. Nothing screams “opportunity” for PR people than a high-profile natural disaster. Case in point: the day after the 6.8-magnitude earthquake rocked Seattle last week, we searched keyword… Continued

First of Two Parts Last month, energy company Con Edison became the latest to join the conga line of corporate powerhouses – American Airlines, Coca-Cola, GM, Sunoco and Nike among them – to publicly endorse… Continued

Bloomberg News Jeff Bliss, reporter, shifts from covering taxes and banking policies to congressional education issues. jbliss@bloomberg.net…Robert Friedman was promoted from senior editor to international editor overseeing international coverage of Fortune. Contact through the publication… Continued

Broadcast Web Sites Trump Dailies. The digital revolution has reached a crossroads of sorts: some local newspapers are losing ground online to their competitors in the broadcast media. The Media Audit, a survey of viewers… Continued

New Features for Health Site. Dot-coms may be dying daily, but the business of health information online is still as serious as a heart attack. Consumer Health Interactive, a health-related Webzine, unveiled two new “Self-Care”… Continued

When Kathryn Collins, director of communications research for General Motors, needed to improve her company’s internal communications program in 1998, she called some atypical sources: Her counterparts from 13 internationally-known companies. Using professional acquaintances as… Continued

Retail superchain Borders Books axed 300 community relations employees. In a release last week Vice President of Corporate Affairs Anne Rodman said the layoffs were part of the company’s plan to more effectively allocate resources.… Continued

DIRECTOR OF MARKETING AND PUBLIC RELATIONS We are Sigma Theta Tau International, Honor Society of Nursing. Since 1922 our purpose has been the dissemination of knowledge to our 125,000-nurse member organization. Located in Indianapolis, IN.… Continued

This week something fun landed in our mailbox: a copy of Bronner’s newly-issued rhyming phrases dictionary. We realized that this could be a helpful resource for speechwriters to jazz up their discourses with some fun… Continued

Speaking of Web stats, we’ve stumbled across a portal that could be a Web statistician’s dream (not to mention a helpful resource for communicators looking to keep abreast of Internet trends.) Internetstats.com links to virtually… Continued