It took a bit of haggling, but PRSA posted this week its member-satisfaction survey results for 2011. After PRSA CEO and Chair Rosanna Fiske, APR blogged about the results, an obvious question was raised by myself and Alice Irvan, APR, PRC: Where are the actual results? We wanted to see for ourselves what the member [...]
July 8, 2011
Traditional news versus social media: What’s different? Picking a dissertation topic is not for the faint of heart or the unprepared. Narrowing an issue into components and sub-components involves, first, picking a topic, then exploring what others have researched in that area and, finally, finding your own niche. Crisis communications, social media and higher-education leadership [...]
May 3, 2011
The Columbia Journalism Review posted yesterday an intriguing piece about the rise of public relations and shrinking of news reporting. Arguably, much of what is mentioned in the story as “PR” is not what many of us in the profession would endorse as normal public relations practice or as being ethical. The free flow of [...]
March 31, 2011
What the company defended and why it may have failed I was a budding journalist in the early 1990s. I had been assigned to cover the university’s faculty senate meeting, what I assumed would be a snooze-fest. It mostly was. But toward the end, something curious occurred. A faculty member made a surprise announcement, a [...]
February 16, 2011
There is now ample evidence supporting early claims by Toyota that, essentially, its vehicles were not at fault for a number of crashes last year. Unfortunately, the toll taken on the auto company has been significant both in terms of cost and reputation. A few have commented about the situation with marvelous insight: James Donnelly’s [...]
September 1, 2011