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Case Study No. 2960: SMTs

August 18th, 1997 by

NEA Uses Satellite Media Tour to School the Press on Issues It’s a rule of thumb in PR that if you reach the media and get them to listen to your message, then part of… Continued

PR & Marketing Calendar

August 11th, 1997 by

August 17: Lois Paul & Partners, "Software Marketing Retreat," Carlsbad, Calif., 415/286-3835. August 18-20: Congressional Quarterly, Inc., "Advanced Legislative Series (ALS)," Washington, DC, 202/887-8620. September 7-12: Columbia Business School, "Marketing Management," Harriman or Tarrytown, New… Continued

News: Industry Wrap-Up

August 11th, 1997 by

Giuliani’s Comm. Director Under Fire Usually, comm. professionals who work for elected officials have to answer for their bosses’ conduct. Now the tables have turned a bit for New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s communications director,… Continued

Media Insight: Brandweek

August 11th, 1997 by

1515 Broadway New York, N.Y. 10036 Phone: 212/536-5336 Editor’s Note: If you want a brief summation of what this publication’s all about, consider that this magazine’s tag line is "The Newsweekly of Marketing" and you’ve… Continued

From the PR NEWS Files:

August 11th, 1997 by

Penthouse: New Morality? We’re not sure if it’s clever or just plain silly: Penthouse magazine is taking on the federal government and promoting the magazine’s stance for righting public wrongs. PR NEWS’ interest in Penthouse… Continued

Mattel’s Not Toying Around With Its Barbie Site

August 11th, 1997 by

It’s quickly dawning on professionals that the Internet promises some unique PR and communications conduits – those that go beyond the obvious and sometimes cursory let’s-track-our-visitors-as-a-reinforcement-of-our-demographics mindset. Instead, progressive and trend-setting corporations are using the… Continued

PR Professionals Taking on More of a Fact-Checking Role

August 11th, 1997 by

The call by some leading publications like Newsweek, Time and Fortune to bid farewell to their fact checkers isn’t much ado about nothing. This surfacing trend has been widely publicized in the mainstream media as… Continued

The Art of a Crisis: How One Gallery Dealt With the Government Shutdown

August 11th, 1997 by

The following is an excerpt from PR NEWS’ "The 12 Hottest (And 7 Not So Hot) PR Campaigns of 1996." This story looks at how the National Gallery of Art impressively handled the federal government’s… Continued

Market Research: Sunny Outlook For Graduates In Communications, Journalism

August 11th, 1997 by

On both the salary and employment fronts, findings from a new survey of college graduates should be good news for those in a corporate communications department or at an agency. Ohio State University’s 1996 Annual… Continued

Something Borrowed, Something New: Effective Communications on the Net

August 11th, 1997 by

CHICAGO – If there’s one communications approach that’s sure to doom you on the Web, it’s relying on cookie-cutter PR and forgetting to customize messages for the many audiences you’re trying to reach. So it’s… Continued