Media Relations

Media relations may be the foundation on which public relations was built, but oh how times have changed. Disintermediation, increased public scrutiny, consumer-generated media, stakeholder empowerment…

If press releases are one of the founding tenets of traditional PR, then multimedia press releases are the wave of current development.

Vice President Dick Cheney’s now-infamous hunting expedition and subsequent fallout has brought the importance of media training spokespeople to the forefront of the PR profession. His communications teams’ laundry list of faux pas – including… Continued

When a crisis erupts, the communications team goes to ground, huddling in the "war room," the "command center." From this hub, PR leadership can call the shots, watching as the story unfolds and adjusting communications… Continued