The Memphis City School district has recently approved a PR contract worth 310,000 US dollars with two D.C.-based marketing companies. The contract has the potential of a crisis, as the MCS has been criticized for spending taxpayer money to chauffeur the deputy superintendent around, creating potential for an even bigger
Whether in anticipation of backlash for the movie The Social Network or not, Mark Zuckerberg decides to make a sizable donation. The CEO and founder of Facebook will announce tomorrow on Oprah he is donation $100 million to the Newark public school system.
Horn Group, a PR company known for its innovative approach to online PR, today announced the expansion of its award-winning design and development practice.
Spokespersons of the Filipino administration admitted the government hired a US public relations agency to get media exposure for President Benigno Aquino III week-long working visit to the United States. According to their statements, contracting the services of a public relations firm in a foreign country was “standard operating procedure”
PRSourceCode announced the results of its fifth annual Top Tech Communicators awards. Established through votes from the IT journalism community, the awards recognise the best PR agencies, corporate PR departments, and individual PR professionals.
Bulgarian public relations expert Maxim Behar has been elected to be one of the members of the international committee organizing the 2011 world PR forum in Davos, Switzerland. Behar is the CEO of the largest public relations company in Bulgaria, M3 Communications Group, and the only Bulgarian expert on the
ProBlogger just turned 6 and Darren Rowse’s industry changing vision is going stronger than ever. Everything PR News wishes Darren and ProBlogger many happy returns. We should all return to the storehouses of knowledge from whence we first learned – remember the principles that can make us all great. Long
Mediabistro’s 20 Tips in 20 Minutes webcast series invites you to a new interesting learning session with Lisa Zlotnick, broadcast director for M Booth and Associates, who will teach PR professionals how to pitch their clients to morning TV shows such as ‘Good Morning America’ or ‘The Today Show’.
Vatican expressed great surprise at the news that broke today involving Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, the head of the Vatican Bank, being placed under investigation by Rome magistrates under suspicions of money-laundering by the bank. After many accusations of child abuse by Catholic priests throughout 2010, the Catholic Church needs to
Advertising Age has released ’30 Best Places to Work in Marketing & Media’, a list acknowledging those employers in the marketing, media and advertising industry that have created working environments in 2010, where people love to work and are encouraged to contribute their best and brightest ideas.
