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The report by the Education Department's inspector general on Armstrong Williams, a pundit paid $240,000 to advertise and advocate for the No Child Left Behind Act, notes that the White House "was told about potential problems," but that di
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The president of the Public Relations Institute of Australia's (PRIA) Victoria chapter, David Hawkins, bluntly summarised the results of a membership survey as, "Most people think the PRIA sucks.
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Following the FCC's Public Notice on "fake news," the U.S. Senate approved, by 98 to 0, a measure requiring "clear notification within the text or audio of the prepackaged news story" for all fake news produced with federal funding.
"Listeners and viewers are entitled to know who seeks to persuade them," noted the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, in a Public Notice (PDF file, Word file) released last night.
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"Missions that might be considered conflicting are not new for Porter Novelli," a PR firm that "has worked for both the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and for Guinness stout and Johnnie Walker Scotch." But Porter Novelli's $2.5 million contract with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to update the food guide pyramid concerns some.
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"Roughly a year ago," the retail giant Wal-Mart began moving "corporate communications people" to "key cities and areas of the country," according to vice-president of communications Mona Williams.
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In testimony before the U.S.
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"Fortunately for PR professionals," writes PR Week, technologies including blog search engines and tagging "allow companies and agencies alike to monitor the dialogue regarding their organizations." One product "allows companies to compare evocations of its name versus the names of competitors." A "marketing intelligence" executive said savvy companies see "blogs as a way to create stakeholder goodwill." The PR firm Edelman recently "
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A week ago Ray Kotcher, the CEO of the PR firm Ketchum, responded in writing to a series of questions from PR Week about the controversy over Armstrong Williams promoting the U.S. No Child Left Behind law.
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At last weekend's Midwest Journalism Conference in Bloomington, Minnesota, Dave Beal reports that Lynn Casey, the CEO of the PR firm Padilla Speer Beardsley, referred to the controversy over video news releases as a "wake-up call" for the PR industry.
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