Monday, November 1st, 2010
So you’ve amassed a crowd of well over 100,000 on the National Mall for a rally to poke fun at incivil discourse and the shrieking, sensationalized media that’s degrading our political process. What do you do when it’s all over??
Sunday, August 22nd, 2010
If recent corporate debacles are any indication, there’s no time like the present to be working the field of crisis communications.
A great article in today’s New York Times looks at the “reputational implosions” of BP, Goldman Sachs, and Toyota over the past year and the wrongheaded PR strategies caused them.
Where did they go wrong? By making at least one of three fatal errors, according to the article:
In the view of many who are paid to extract corporations from terrible situations, Toyota, BP and Goldman exacerbated their woes by either declining to fess up promptly, casting blame elsewhere or striking adversarial postures with the public, the government and the news media.
Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
The media buzz here in DC is all about the new website TBD and how it may (or may not) succeed as a customizable, all-you can-eat type of local news site. Launched by the same publisher who created the hugely successful Politico, the new news site will set itself apart by including news links with other local blogs and outlets. Risky, or extremely smart?
My bet is on the latter. I personally don’t have time to go searching for all the blogs that have been created to share news about my neighborhood here in Arlington, Virginia. So I find setting up an account on TBD, even if it means I have to share a little personal information, highly valuable. It means that I can go one place to read the news I want. (more…)
Monday, February 8th, 2010
Regret the Error relays the story of the Daily Beast’s chief investigative reporter (and longtime journo) Gerald Posner, who’s been suspended while his bosses decide what to do about several instances of what can only be described as plagiarism. (more…)
