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USA Discounters, the Virginia-based retailer that ProPublica reported offers "easy" credit to military members but files thousands of suits when its loans aren't repaid, is criticizing the non-profit news organization's portrayal.
PR people and students of the craft should flock (no, make it run) to the New York Public Library's "Over Here: WWI and the Fight for the American Mind" exhibit which opens July 28.
Predictable does not mean plodding or unimaginative. Google is proof that serious purpose and process can go hand-in-hand with creativity and excitement.
As Pope Francis revamps the Vatican's PR strategy, PR pro Toni Muzi Falconi outlined the communications strategies of the pope and his two predecessors at a UK university this month. Here is an excerpt.
The 2014 O'Dwyer's Directory of PR Firms, PR's No. 1 source of information for clients looking for PR counsel and PR pros shopping for jobs, has been published.
As it prepares to stage the controversial opera "The Death of Klinghoffer," perhaps the Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center should spend a little more time and effort policing the inside of Lincoln Center.
The global taxi demonstration that snarled traffic in London, Barcelona, Paris, Milan and Madrid yesterday to protest car-sharing leader Uber showered priceless PR upon the San Francisco start-up, which sports a potential $17B market valuation.
Southern Comfort, the whiskey-based liqueur, says it has "lost relevance" among younger people of legal drinking age and believes a consumer PR campaign can remedy the situation.
DiMassimo Goldstein the aggressive independent ad agency in Manhattan’s Flatiron District has named Sarah Block as PR director to integrate strategic communications with DG's earned/social/paid offerings.
Publicis Groupe CEO Maurice Levy said the famous selfie arranged by his firm that Ellen DeGeneres took at the Academy Awards ceremony was worth from $800M to $1B in “earned media” for client Samsung due to the massive press and social media coverage.
Next Fifteen Communications Group reported today first half revenue rose six percent to £49.3m (about $82.4M) on the strength of its US operations like Outcast, M Booth, Text 100 and Blueshirt, which saw 13% organic revenue growth for the period ended Jan. 31.
Richard Edelman, in Atlanta last week, talked about how his Jewish heritage helps drive ethical development and growth at the world’s largest PR firm.
The emergence of Pope Francis as a global media superstar is a shocker for the former Time magazine and Fox News Channel reporter who is now a media advisor to the Vatican’s Secretariat of State.
Representatives of the New York Times and Washington Post vowed to 300 at the Arthur W. Page spring seminar yesterday that running “branded content” (advertorials) will not compromise their mission.
Media watchdog Media Matters for America is taking oil giant Chevron to task for its launch of a local “news” site in Richmond, Cal., the site of its 2012 refinery fire that led to a financial settlement of $2M for fines and restitutions.
There are 4.6 PR pros for every reporter in the U.S., according to the latest Dept. of Labor figures for 2013, up from a three-to-one ratio in 2008.
MSLGroup North America president Renne Wilson will head the 2014 Cannes Lions jury for PR.
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