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Everyone can be a photo editor in this age of inexpensive digital cameras and a variety of tools available for altering photographs. In the newsroom, however, some photo editing can do more harm than good. Recently, The Economist took heat for a Gulf Coast oil spill cover that featured an isolated President Obama standing at [...] July 22nd, 2010 | Tags: Adobe Photoshop, altering photographs, BP, British Petroleum, communication, design, design & editorial, digital photography, Gulf Coast, Media Relations, NY Times.com, Obama, oil spill, online media, Photography, public relations, Steve Mufson, The Economist, Treehugger.com, washington post | Categories: Advertising & Promotion, Design & Editorial, Media Relations
2 comments | Share: This guest post is written by Shelby Benkert, an intern at Vanguard Communications. Unlike most college students, I tend to shy away from many social media networks. Facebook is my go-to in order to stay in touch with my friends, and I rarely use anything else. I do have a Twitter account, but I have never [...] July 15th, 2010 | Tags: communication, Dennis Crowley, Facebook, foursquare, Mediaite, online communication, online media, privacy, security, social networking, social networking sites, Starbucks, Twitter | Categories: Integrated Media Services, Online Marketing
Leave a comment | Share: On Wednesday, the Associated Press (AP) announced the appointment of former Jerusalem bureau chief Steve Gutkin as their new “Oil Spill Editor.” According to a memo sent to AP staff and released to the Poynter Institute: The Gulf Oil spill has been an enormous journalistic challenge. A sprawling story, much of it occurring literally out of [...] July 2nd, 2010 | Tags: agriculture, AP, Associated Press, BP, British Petroleum, communication, cultural competency, editor, energy, environment, food, Gulf Coast, health, media, media outreach, Media Relations, oil spill, Oil Spill Editor, politics, The Poynter Institute | Categories: Integrated Media Services, Media Relations
Leave a comment | Share: General Stanley McChrystal is in big, big trouble. In a profile of McChrystal appearing in Rolling Stone magazine, he’s on the record saying things about his boss (a.k.a. the President of the United States), Vice President Joe Biden and the administration’s management of the Afghanistan war that should never appear in print. It was a [...] June 23rd, 2010 | Tags: communication, General Stanley McChrystal, Integrated Media Services, Interview, Interviewee, media, Media Interviews, Media Relations, New York Times, PR, Rolling Stone, single overriding communications objective, SOCO, spokesperson, Tips | Categories: Integrated Media Services, Media Relations, Policy Communications, Strategic Planning, Training & TA
2 comments | Share: As if BP’s crisis response mistakes mentioned in a recent post weren’t enough, apparently their public relations disasters continue as more oil pumps into the saturated Gulf Coast. Newly released documents reveal BP’s standard crisis response strategy to be “accentuate the positive, downplay the negative, tell everybody they’re sorry, they’re gonna fix it, they’re gonna do [...] June 17th, 2010 | Tags: audience outreach, BP, British Petroleum, communication, crisis, crisis communication, damage control, Gulf Coast, Media Relations, oil spill, online media, online strategy, PR, public relations, spokesperson, spokesperson training, Tony Hayward, transparency | Categories: Integrated Media Services, Media Relations, Social Marketing, Strategic Planning
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