With the New Year comes all manner of “year in review” lists, articles and coverage across the media spectrum. Some of these will simply summarize the previous year’s highlights, while others will take a more nuanced and critical approach, attempting to learn from the year past and consider the lesson’s we can all take forward.
Amongst [...]
The Washington Post; Los Angeles Times; Atlanta Journal-Constitution; CanWest, Canada’s biggest media company – pick almost any major media outlet in North America, or the world for that matter, and there have been significant cutbacks in newsrooms.
Those of us in the PR industry have lamented the loss of so many talented journalists. Some of them [...]
Anyone who works for or closely with media outlets will be well aware of the onslaught of bad news about . . . the news business. As organizations cut their advertising budgets, newspapers, magazines and electronic media outlets suffer. It seems that every day there’s yet another story about a publisher or network cutting stuff, [...]
Read More...Career public relations professionals inevitably consider media interviews with a different ear and eye than regular folks. It’s no secret that we help to prepare spokespersons to help them make the most of an interview. Only a gullible person thinks that they don’t need to prepare for an encounter with a journalist. After all, good preparation [...]
Read More...I have been watching the Democratic National Convention – the coronation of Barack Obama. Much has been written over the last decade or two about the irrelevance of the major parties’ conventions, how they don’t really mean anything since nominees are almost always decided through the primaries system.
But ever since I campaigned for George McGovern [...]
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