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 position as Public Affairs Director for the Director of National Intelligence, but in the wake […]

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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 discussion; music by Sylvie Lewis; and more. [Messages from our sponsors: FIR is brought to […]