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Say What?

October 2nd, 2000 by

Believe it or not, we reporters are smarter than we look. Perhaps the president of CS Hyde Co. thought he was going to pull a fast one when he sent this cover letter [sic], along… Continued

Editorial Calendar Alert

October 2nd, 2000 by

Mo’ Money. Watch for a special double issue of Money magazine in December, featuring an online holiday shopping guide. Submissions are due by October 9. Assistant managing editor Sheryl Hilliard Tucker prefers to be contacted… Continued

Resource

October 2nd, 2000 by

Bring Home the Bacon’s. Bacon’s Information introduces MediaCalendars.com, a database of editorial calendars from more than 3,500 magazines and daily papers. Content is updated daily and is searchable by publication name, date, lead-time, magazine market,… Continued

On The Record

October 2nd, 2000 by

TV Peeves. Last week, PR NEWS caught up with Robert Long, VP, News for the DC-based NBC affiliate WRC-TV, and gave him the opportunity to rant about the biggest mistakes media relations pros make in… Continued

Communications On Par With Operations In CEO ‘To Do’ Lists

October 2nd, 2000 by

When a survey reported last week that Canadian CEOs spend half their time on internal and external communications (PRN, Sept. 25), the next question was, what exactly are they doing? Suzie Boland, president of Tampa-based… Continued

Trends

October 2nd, 2000 by

Heard it on the Web. The Internet has become a vital lifeline for radio newsrooms, according to a study by News Generation, Inc. A survey of 100 stations in the top 50 markets (mostly news/talk… Continued

Hotline

October 2nd, 2000 by

Civilization Crumbles. Worth Media, publisher of Worth magazine, is putting an end to Civilization, the award-winning magazine it bought from the Library of Congress in 1997 and promptly ruined by introducing celebrity guest editors whose… Continued

This Just In…

October 2nd, 2000 by

Distribution of the 2000-01 edition of the PRSA’s membership directory, known as the Blue Book, will be delayed until January 2001due to financial constraints. The directory was last published in October 1999. Spokeswoman Catherine Bolton… Continued

In The Race For Budget Dollars, Inhouse PR Agencies Keep The Gold

October 2nd, 2000 by

For many corporate communicators, the annual budgeting marathon is not a happy time – particularly in cases where senior management views the PR department as little more than a tactical cost center that easily could… Continued

Playing To Type: The CEO’s PR Profile

October 2nd, 2000 by

Lois Paul, founder and president of Lois Paul & Partners Inc., a Fleishman-Hillard company, shares her impressions of categories of CEOs – those who understand PR and those who don’t. The executives who do it… Continued