Orchard Owners Turning to Robot Labor?
Farmers in Washington State are worried that they won’t have enough workers to keep up with the harvest in coming years. Most orchards depend on migrant farmers to pick their crops, many of whom...
Category: PR Insights
News From Ketchum, Walker Sands, Text 100, FWV, and WE Communications
Ketchum London adds Mark Walsh as Consumer Director Ketchum, a member of Omnicom’s PR holdings, just announced that Mark Walsh will be the consumer director in their London office where he’ll direct his energy...
What Killed UK’s Lifeline Charity?
In a result that shocked many in a nation trying to deal with addiction in positive ways, Lifeline, one of the United Kingdom’s “leading drug and alcohol treatment” charities abruptly shuttered its doors and...
Nissan Tries to Fight Distracted Driving
Officials who keep track of such things say about 6,000 pedestrians were killed last year because of distraction. The main culprit blamed, of course, was texting while driving, but, really, there are a lot...
’13 Reasons Why’ Panned by Critics and Social Workers
It was meant to get people talking about teen suicide and, at least by that measure, the Netflix original series 13 Reasons Why certainly accomplished that. Of course, it also got a lot of people...
What’s News From MWWPR, Finn Partners & Burson-Marsteller
J. Mark Riggs Joins MWWPR’s Leadership Team
With Junior Done, What’s Next for NASCAR?
Pro auto racing in the US has some big questions to answer this off-season. What to do about Danica Patrick may be one, but the biggest one of them all will be what to...
News From Hawkins, Fenton, Weber Shandwick, APCO, and WE Communications
Hawkins Hires Kristen Boehm for Digital Practice Hawkins International PR nabbed Kristin Boehm from DKC as their digital director. Boehm brings a resume that includes a stint as online editor at the New York...
YouTube Continues to Struggle with Advertising Issues
YouTube advertising has been a major benefit to Tubers who have made a career out of posting videos to the platform. And YouTube content has come to define entertainment for a generation. So many...
GE CEO Makes a Bold Political Statement
Despite a blistering barrage of recent criticism from investors, General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt isn’t shying away from sharing his vision for the future of GE. In a recent speech, Immelt made it clear...
