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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: From coverage of Cornell University’s response to six students’ deaths by suicide to reports of entertainer Marie Osmond’s teenage son’s death by suicide, recently reporters are writing and talking a lot about suicide. While it’s great that news coverage is driving public dialogue about this often taboo topic, the news coverage does not utilize linguistically competent [...] April 5th, 2010 | Tags: AIDS, American Association of Suicidology, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, Annenberg Public Policy Center, audience outreach, cancer, Celebrity Psychings, Cornell University, cultural competency, culture, health communications, HIV, language, linguistic competency, Marie Osmond, media, media outreach, news coverage, phrases, public relations, suicide, words | Categories: Integrated Media Services, Media Relations, Multicultural Outreach, Strategic Planning, Training & TA
Leave a comment | Share: Personally, one of my least favorite school activities as a student was report card day. While I often knew in advance what the report card would say, I was always anxious about my parents’ reaction. Knowledge may be power, but I think we can all admit that sometimes there are things we wish our parents [...] February 25th, 2010 | Tags: Alliance Building, anti-poverty, Congress, Congressional scorecard, environment, Environment America, Environment Washington, equality, house of representatives, Human Rights Campaign, lawmakers, legislation, media, media outreach, Media Relations, message exposure, Policy Communications, PR, report card, Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law, United States Senate, voting record | Categories: Alliance Building, Integrated Media Services, Media Relations, Policy Communications
Leave a comment | Share: According to a recent poll by AdWeekMedia and Harris Interactive: Just two in five U.S. adults (43%) say they read a daily newspaper, either online or in print almost every day. Just over seven in ten Americans (72%) say they read one at least once a week while 81% read a daily newspaper at least once [...] January 21st, 2010 | Tags: AdWeek, AdWeekMedia, audience outreach, audience reach, communication, economy, Harris Interactive, media, media business, media outreach, Media Relations, media strategy, newspapers, poll, PR, public relations, readership, research, themediaisdying, Twitter | Categories: Integrated Media Services, Media Relations, Strategic Planning
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