How Hill & Knowlton Pioneered Unsound Science
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In the 1950s, with the link between cigarette smoking and lung cancer becoming well established, the tobacco industry was in crisis.
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Swift Boat Firm Helps Abstinence Group Court Public Opinion
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Rebranding Russia
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Concerned about its "rapidly deteriorating image abroad," Russia has launched "a series of public relations events" designed to enhance the image of Vladimir Putin regime, the Russian gas company Gazprom, and the country's intelligence and military forces.
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Dowie Defiant
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Doug Dowie, the former Fleishman-Hillard executive who is about to begin serving prison time for conspiracy and fraud, continues to maintain his innocence.
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About Schmidt
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Steve Schmidt, a former White House communications strategist and campaign manager for Arnold Schwarzenegger, has gone to work for Mercury Public Affairs, a subsidiary of the Fleishman-Hillard PR firm.
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The Ethical Optimist
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Ann Higgins of Utopia Communications, a member of the Public Relations Society of America, has started a blog about ethics and public relations.
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Prison Sentence for PR Adviser's Insider Trading
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A former corporate PR executive has been sentenced to 15 months of periodic detention, after being convicted for insider trading in shares of a company she advised. Between July 2003 and December 2004, Margot McKay, the founder of Margot McKay and Associates, provided PR consultancy advice to the gambling machine company Aristocrat Leisure.
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More Transparency Than Microsoft Bargained For
Submitted by Diane Farsetta on
"While reporting a story on Microsoft's video blogging initiative -- something called Channel 9 -- the dossier that Microsoft and its outside public relations agency Waggener Edstrom keeps on me accidentally ended up in my email inbox," recounts Fred Vogelstein.
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Don't Worry Your Pretty Heads, Says Cosmetics Industry
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In response to growing concerns about the safety of some cosmetics, the industry group Cosmetic, Toiletry, and Fragrance Association (CTFA) "has embarked on what it calls an 'education process' designed to reassure consumers." As the Center for Media and Democracy repo
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Treating Injured Military Personnel With PR
Submitted by Bob Burton on
In early March, George W. Bush announced the creation of the President's Commission on Care for America's Returning Wounded Warriors as a way of ending controversy over substandard treatment of injured U.S. personnel at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
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