Category: Public Relations
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Delivering the new PR is hot
It looks like Delivering The New PR in London this Friday 12 May will be a hot event as almost 150 people so far have signed up to be there. Last week, PR Business (a new PR print magazine in…
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Plagiarism costs Raytheon CEO dearly
Some months ago, I ordered a copy of “Swanson’s Unwritten Rules of Management,” a free book by William Swanson, the CEO of US military contractor Raytheon Company, from the company’s website. It hasn’t arrived yet and it now looks as…
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The continuing case for cutting out the middlemen
Last week, I posted commentary about an article by John Lloyd in the Financial Times on the relationship – I used the word symbiosis: check the definition – between journalism and PR in politics. The concluding point in my post…
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Blackberry future in doubt again
“Blackberry saved” was a common theme of news reporting in March after Research In Motion (RIM), maker of the ubiquitous Blackberry wireless phone/email device, came to a $612 million settlement in its legal battle defending a claim for patent infringement.…
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The Kremlin’s PR challenge
The Financial Times reports on a big task for any PR agency: Russia’s presidential administration has signed a multi-million dollar contract with Ketchum, a US-based PR firm, to advise on communications with western media during its G8 term, which started on…