Category: For Immediate Release

  • Cut from FIR #309

    Overflow from today’s FIR #309: 1-Minute News 2008: A change-or-die year for journalism? Beware the social media hoax Download FIR Cuts MP3 – Journalism (13:09). If you want to automatically receive FIR Cuts as they’re published, subscribe to the RSS…

  • The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #309: January 10, 2008

    Content summary: New FIR Interview with ex-FEMA Pat Philbin posted; upcoming FIR Interview with Forrester Research; CIPR event at the House of Lords; update on the FIR Listener Contest; Dan York reports on addressing online attacks on your business and…

  • FIR Interview: John "Pat" Philbin, former FEMA Communications Director – January 9, 2008

    One of the bigger PR news stories of 2007 involved a press conference staged by the Federal Emergency Management Agency in October to address the California wildfires. FEMA’s External Affairs Director John "Pat" Philbin was slated to take a new…

  • Cuts from FIR #308

    Overflow from today’s FIR #308: 1-Minute News Web video revitalizes lunch at your desk Twitter’s productivity cost Download FIR Cuts MP3s – Lunch (5:15) | Twitter (9:14). If you want to automatically receive FIR Cuts as they’re published, subscribe to…

  • The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #308: January 7, 2008

    Content summary: Reminders about FIR Cuts and the FIR Listener Contest; follow-up: intranets 2; the impact of GMnext; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; PR and zoos; PETA and social networks; Lee Hopkins reports on interviews and conferences; listeners’ comments…