Last Monday, national alcoholism authority Father Joseph C. Martin died in his Havre De Grace, Md. home after a long battle with heart disease. The addiction treatment facility he co-founded,…
The New News Industry
The endless string of newspaper collapses is threatening to throw me into a depression. The Rocky Mountain News published its last issue two weeks ago. Both the San Francisco Chronicle…
Ryanair slams “idiot” bloggers
A recent tale of communication gone wrong caught our attention. When Jason Roe, an Irish freelance web designer, found a glitch in Ryanair’s online flight booking system, he wrote a…
You are what you fund: companies’ reputations impacted by TARP spending
Yesterday, Morgan Stanley announced it would not even attend the PGA Memorial Tournament, an event it is sponsoring in June. As the main sponsor of the tournament, which takes place…
Going to the chapel: what press releases and wedding invites have in common
During the dot-com boom, the practice of public relations rose to a new level of importance among those in the C-suite. Creating broad awareness of a business model could…