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If quarterly earnings report conference calls pose your main point of contact with shareholders you’ll want to make the most of your phone time. Some tips from the experts at Premiere Conferencing: Strive for Clarity.… Continued

Attention suave media relations pros: Now you can put another notch in your journo courting rituals by nominating your favorite hack for accolades in the PRESStige Awards, sponsored by Press Access. Only journalists covering business,… Continued

In our cover story on shareholder reports last week, I/Rexperts defended their continued reliance on paper as a reflection of investor resistance to digital communication. But research conducted by the high-tech marcom firm Rainier Corp.… Continued

Corporate Moves Mary Welch is named VP and PR manager for Bank of America Mid-South (Ga./Tenn.) and for its national small business group. She was staff writer for BioWorld Today, a daily biotechnology newspaper. EarthLink… Continued

Ginger Hardage VP Public Relations and Corporate Communications Southwest Airlines Co. Dallas, Texas 214/792-4000 First Paying Job: Mowing cemeteries. Early PR Jobs: Worked in the marcom department of Life Insurance Co. of the Southwest during… Continued

“Science Daily” Discovery Science Channel 7700 Wisconsin Ave. Bethesda, Md. 20814-3579 301/986-1999 http://www.discovery.com Recent breakthroughs such as the human genome project have whet the American public’s appetite for science news, and Discovery Science Channel is… Continued

The Case When Bob Palmisano left Bausch & Lomb in April 1997 to become CEO of Summit Technologies, Summit was in critical condition. Founded in 1985, the company was an early pioneer of laser vision… Continued

There is confidence, there is hyperbole and then there is fantasy. A headline on a press release caught our eye as an example hailing from the latter category: “DesignFreak, Inc. Launches New Media Web Site… Continued

As PR NEWS went to press this week, Verizon Communications was still plodding through bad press in the midst of its negotiations with more than 85,000 telephone operators, customer service agents and technicians who went… Continued

Becky Bisbee leaves the Austin-American Statesman to join the Seattle Times. Kathy Warbelow replaces her as business editor. Fax: 512/445-3971…Jon Talton, former business editor at the Charlotte Observer, is now a columnist for the business… Continued