Bull Goes To China Shop
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"A high-caliber, multinational and multifunctional team" is how Yahoo's Stephen Davis, senior manager of international PR, describes their new PR firm, Porter Novelli.
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PR and Marketing, Sin Fronteras
Submitted by Diane Farsetta on
In its "PR Toolbox" section, PR Week addresses how to market "to the growing Hispanic population." The answer: radio. "There are now approximately 700 Spanish-language radio stations in the U.S." And, according to Rise Birnbaum of the broadcast PR firm Zcomm, "Spanish-language stations are even more receptive than general-market ones" to audio news releases and radio media tours.
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White House Will Be Scott-Free
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"White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan said Wednesday he is stepping down, while President Bush's top presidential adviser Karl Rove is giving up his policy portfolio," reports FOX News and Associated Press. McClellan will leave the White House in two to three weeks.
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The Media War and Journalist Thought Crimes
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Big Bad Man in Baghdad
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Old Politics in New Media
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Political campaigns in the United States are using the internet as never before, reports Adam Nagourney.
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'Ad/PR Man' Wants to Buy Newspaper
Submitted by Laura Miller on
There are many bright ideas out there for the future of the 12 Knight-Ridder newspapers on the auction block, ideas that have generated discussion about the news media's responsibility to the public and democracy.
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PR Pros To The Rescue
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PR Week's Hamilton Nolan offers a candid, if not glib, analysis of the Project for Excellence in Journalism 's third annual "State of the News Media" report, which looks at major trends in American news media. "Not surprisingly, into the maw of overworked journalists and reticent corporate owners comes the PR industry.
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Words About "Images"
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"George Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld actually need the media now more than ever," writes the Columbia Journalism Review's Gal Beckerman. Although the "conventional wisdom ... is that this administration views the press as vampires view garlic," White House criticisms of the media "have become essential to the administration's contention that progress is being made." The effect of this argument, Beckerman writes, is to sugggest that "We're not seeing car bombs ripping entire blocks apart and blowing dozens of Iraqis to bits.
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La Raza Unida for Telecom Deregulation?
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"When 15 Latino groups sent a letter to top Senate Commerce Committee lawmakers urging video-franchising relief for the Bell telecommunications firms, the appeal appeared to be on behalf of Hispanic Americans," writes David Hatch. "But critics said the letter also was on behalf of the Bell firms AT&T and Verizon Communications, which have financial and business ties to many of the signatories. ...
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