In a former life, I thought I wanted to be a sports journalist — a strange aspiration for someone with my hand-eye coordination (or lack thereof), but one that developed over my love of the business, politics and sheer excitement of professional sports. Although I’ve since grown up and crossed over to the “dark side,” [...]

Greg Ip acknowledged that some of his more valuable relationships were people he met over the course of his career – through PR people!

My Dad just sent me an interesting op-ed piece written by Nicholas D. Kristof of the New York Times. Like many media-focused discussions of the past month, his article, The Daily Me, leads off by lamenting the downfall of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
But unlike other columns I’ve read on this topic, most of which ask what [...]

Comments have been flying around online about the most recent Twitter upset: David George-Cosh (National Post reporter) vs. April Dunford (PR consultant). If you’ve not yet heard what all the little birdies are talking about, here’s the shortened play-by-play (or tweet-by-tweet):
- April: When the media calls you, you jump, OK!?” Why, when you called me [...]

Is it possible for me to feel blogging fatigue after a scant eight postings? I mean, it’s not that I don’t have random thoughts or insight to share – but it’s pretty clear I don’t always make the time to blog. (Even now I’m feeling pinched for time.)
Enter Twitter. Microblogging not only has resuscitated my [...]