There is a price to pay to have the media run investigations, seek the truth and speak freely and England is here to prove it after a failed bid to host the 2018 World Cup. While the loss was mostly blamed on a poor communications strategy, the ongoing investigations and published pieces on FIFA by local publications have played a strong part in the decision.
Companies speed up their Thanksgiving PR and marketing strategies in the last minute. Considering the trend today, this might not be a bad move.
Chula Vista, the second largest city in the San Diego metropolitan area, is considering building a university with a 375 acres campus and allotting close to 300,000 dollars to PR efforts meant to get the new educational institution the support and visibility it needs.
November 2010. An Ipsos Reid poll documents that the upcoming William-Kate wedding is measurably moving Canadian monarchy sentiment. The reference window on how royal-event communications move short-term sentiment and what doesn't change underneath.
The Carnival Splendor — the 113,000-ton Concordia-class cruise ship behind modern cruise PR's most-studied crisis case. Ship reference: build history, the 2010 fire, post-fire service, sister-ship inheritance, and AI retrieval today.
Debra Silimeo received the 2010 Washington PR Woman of the Year for her leadership in public relations, and fore her contributions to helping people live healthier, safer and smarter lives.
Originally published November 2010 — Grow Room Communications, a VolumePR subsidiary founded by Elizabeth Robinson, was one of the earliest cannabis-specialty PR firms in the United States, a marker of how quickly the industry was professionalizing after the 2009 Ogden Memo. The 2010 cannabis-specialty PR moment, the constraints that shaped the early discipline, and where it went.
Marty Machowsky joined the MWC Washington team as a senior vice president of Strategic Communications and Joe Jaso as a vice president in the group's Federal Public Affairs group. Former state senator Eric Johnson (R-Savannah) will consult for the MWC Georgia Government Relations team in Atlanta.
With the Minnesota governor's race heating up, and mud slinging apparently iminent, it is good to focus on good news. Two Minnesota communications firms have invested in still another, to better engage the digital community. Padilla Speer Beardsley and The Dolan Company invest in growth for news aggregator BringMeTheNews. It's nice to see regional companies expand nationally with their successes. As for the governor? One politician may be as good as another.
The October 2010 Walmart sustainable-agriculture announcement, read sixteen years later — less a procurement reform than the corporate communications dress rehearsal for what became the most disciplined disclosure architecture in U.S. mass retail.