Posted on January 16, 2006 9:47 am by Shel Holtz | Media
The brief article by editor Frank Bridgewater in the January 13 edition of the Honolulu Star Bulletin informs readers that entertainment reporter Tim Ryan has been dismissed for “phrases or sentences that appeared elsewhere before being included, un-attributed, in stories that ran in the Star-Bulletin.” The explanation for Ryan’s firing includes links to the online versions of the offending articles uncovered during an…
Posted on January 13, 2006 12:56 pm by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Media
Neville Hobson, popular PR blogger and my co-host on For Immediate Release, has pretty much given up on print. Neville prefers to read everything online, including lengthy articles in business publications like BusinessWeek. He’s a poster child for the “print is dead” meme, even though statistics bear out that most people still like to read lengthy material in print. (How many of you print out…
Posted on December 23, 2005 2:01 pm by Shel Holtz | External | General | Media
Many moons ago, before I transitioned into the business communications world that would be my career for the rest of my life, I was a newspaper reporter. My degree is in journalism and, at the time, I couldn’t imagine myself doing anything other than writing hard news and in-depth analyses for a daily newspaper. The transition to corporate communications wasn’t easy. It took a…
Posted on December 21, 2005 10:13 am by Shel Holtz | Media
Rex Hammock doesn’t think the press release is dead, but he was amused that news of the Google-America Online deal had been well-communicated by the time Time Warner issued its press release:
Didn’t this happen (in blog time) months ago? Or maybe it was just last week and seems like months ago. It’s strange to see that it is just now be “press…
Posted on November 26, 2005 2:05 pm by Shel Holtz | Media
Earlier this month I reported about an editorial in the Contra Costa Times that took the fire department and board of supervisors to task for spending money on PR agencies during difficult financial times. Today, a Florida newspaper has gotten into the act. The editorial writers at The Stewart News, a Scripps paper, say, “Martin County needed to get out a lot…
Posted on September 7, 2005 9:06 am by Shel Holtz | Media
Does your company need to beef up its online newsroom? After perusing a report from the Communications department at IBM’s Spanish operation, you may think so.
Online newsrooms—sections of a company’s website dedicated to providing resources to the press—have been de rigueur on the web. Some, like General Electric’s, are models. Others are nothing more than collections of press releases. (It’s been some 30 years since I was a…
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