Media Relations

It’s one thing for a top executive to be camera-ready for a media interview and know his talking points cold. It’s another when the reporter has a bone to pick with the executive, has a habit of interrupting the responses and can barely contain his or her hostility toward the brand or organization.

More than half (60%) of PR executives said they have not used blog type news releases without a formal news release, according to an exclusive study conducted by marketing communications agency MWW.

Perhaps spurred by its history of large ad presence at events such as the Super Bowl, Pepsi is incorrectly perceived by 21% of respondents in a new survey to be an official Olympic sponsor. According… Continued

Mobile marketing tours are an increasingly popular PR vehicle for brands and organizations that want to move beyond static media tours.

Maybe you recall Strother Martin’s pained, twisted line of dialogue spoken to Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke, delivered after Martin has struck chain-gang prisoner Newman with a blackjack: “What we’ve got here is failure… Continued

The proliferation of news websites is good for PR communicators, but you will have to be more creative and skillful than ever when pitching journalists.

In the interest of helping all media handlers and PR pros whose senior leader threatens, on camera, to murder a journalist, we offer these helpful tips.

Setting aside time to visit the newsrooms of media outlets you serve as a communicator is a great way to build relationships and understand what makes a media outlet tick.

Thirty years ago Apple unveiled its iconic “1984” Super Bowl commercial, announcing the release of the Macintosh personal computer.  Steve Jobs had already previewed the commercial, publicly announcing his plucky little company was about to… Continued

These tactical media pitching tips will help see you through the anxiety of short deadlines and high media placement expectations