My Client, Front-Page News For The Last Time
Wed, May 14, 2025
By Butch Meily
When my client died, I faced an ethical dilemma. Here's how I handled it.
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When my client died, I faced an ethical dilemma. Here's how I handled it.
Bospar's Curtis Sparrer debuts Game Face children's book aimed at introducing the next generation to the PR business.
Coca-Cola is a brand “ever enshrouded in an aura of goodness and happiness,” writes Murray Carpenter in his just-released “Sweet and Deadly: How Coca-Cola Spreads Misinformation and Makes Us Sick” book published by The MIT Press.
Time correspondent Simon Shuster’s “The Showman” demonstrates how Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky’s masterful knowledge of PR tactics and the power of propaganda transformed him from comedian into a respected world leader.
Iuliia Mendel, who served as press secretary for Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky from 2019 to 2021, will release a book called “The Fight Of Our Lives” in September, published by Simon & Schuster’s One Signal Publishers.
Robert Dilenschneider, former CEO of Hill and Knowlton, is releasing the fifth edition of The Public Relations Handbook on Feb. 15.
Big Advertising may be down for the count, but the power of marketing lives on. That’s the big takeaway from Paul Dyer’s “Friction Fatigue,” a look at what advertising’s downward spiral means for “future-focused brands."
Sabrina Horn, the high-tech PR guru who sold her Horn Group to Finn Partners in 2015, has published “Make It, Don’t Fake It.”
“If Mark David Chapman had social media, he wouldn’t have shot John Lennon—he would have tweeted about him.” That’s a quote from Sandy Petty (aka “Fuse"), the protagonist of Eric Dezenhall’s latest work of fiction, “False Light”.
There’s probably no one more qualified to talk about how properly executed messaging can make a difference in the world than Bill Novelli, who has just written “Good Business: The Talk, Fight, Win Way to Change the World.”
Lawyer Alan Dershowitz publishes 'Guilt by Association: The Challenge of Proving Innocence in the Age of #MeToo' to push back against charges of sexual misconduct lodged by Virginia Giuffre.
The principles and strategies discussed in “Advancing Higher Education – New Strategies for Fundraising, Philanthropy and Engagement,” are transferable to fundraising and to PR and marketing support in almost any area.
PR pro Bill Doescher writes "Dear Folks" book to share lessons learned from his personal life and distinguished career (Dun & Bradstreet CCO, PRSA Foundation president) in communications.
Taylor founder Alan Taylor's new book tells the story of how he helped start sports and event PR, and of the athletes he met along the way.
In his new book, "In the Shadow of Statues," New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu sees parallels between the rise of ex-Klansman David Duke in Louisiana politics during the 1990s and Donald Trump.
Heroin, which was marketed in 23 countries by Germany's Bayer, was considered extremely respectable. “Much of that respectability was the result of its sober advertising,” wrote Andrew Essex, ex-CEO of creative ad agency powerhouse Droga5, in his new book, "The End of Advertising."
Ofield Dukes, who broke through barriers erected against African-Americans via his political and PR work, is remembered in a book released by PRMuseum Press.
An effective PR crisis manager is like a good basketball point guard who knows the playbook and is blessed with "court vision," writes James Haggerty in his new book, Chief Crisis Officer.
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