Topic: Public Relations


  • Deutsche Bank Championship

    With the PGA’s FedEx Cup playoffs rolling into Boston, we’re taking the lead on the public relations and social media strategy for the Tiger Woods Foundation and Deutsche Bank Championship, where champions play on Labor Day.

  • Communications Rx when Ebola hits home

    As the CDC, World Health Organization and hospitals from Atlanta to Dallas scramble to deal with Ebola, fear has infected middle America. That means people with colds or seasonal allergies are nervously asking the family doc, ‘Do you think it’s Ebola?” And that presents a communication challenge for urgent care…

  • Taylor Swift

    Yesterday, Taylor Swift delighted fans with the surprise release of her latest single and music video, Shake it Off. She announced the video and details about 1989, her 5th album, during a 30-minute livestream on Yahoo Screen. I watched the video and livestream highlights, and came to the conclusion that…

  • While Jimmy Fallon and Bruce Springsteen’s recent parody of “Born To Run” at the expense of big Boss fan New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was going viral, the Boss was having PR issues of his own. Though his garnered less public attention than the Fort Lee traffic jams, like those of his…

  • Last week I was carb loading in preparation for my first marathon. Then disaster struck.On Monday, as Sandy loomed, I began contemplating other race options in the event that the New York City Marathon was canceled. On Tuesday, Mayor Bloomberg announced the race was on, so I refocused. By Wednesday,…

  • If you have strep throat, a lozenge isn’t going to provide lasting relief. You need a professional who will diagnose and treat the problem with something more powerful. As a maker of “softish cough drops,” Pine Brothers probably knows that about its product. Apparently it doesn’t realize the same holds true for…

  • I’m told that an iPhone 5 is headed my way Friday. At least, that’s what the Verizon rep relayed, not what the Verizon website read. Were I to believe the latter – and it was convincing during some frantic moments over the weekend – there was no record of my…

  • In PR we absorb, study and work with the media every day. But that doesn’t mean we’re not left scratching our heads over certain editorial decisions. Tuesday marked 11 years since the 9/11 attacks. While the memory is still fresh in so many Americans’ minds, many news organizations seem to…

  • The usually savvy pros at NBC and Twitter need a PR refresher course after their recent decision to suspend a journalist’s Twitter account over criticism of NBC’s Olympic programming.Guy Adams (@guyadams), a Los Angeles-based reporter for British newspaper The Independent, began posting criticism of the tape-delay Olympic programming last Friday….