It’s not the first, and it likely will not be the last time a corporation breaks the unwritten rules of blogging to make the medium serve its business ends.

Topics: Blogging, New Media, PR Practice, PR Theory

We quickly learned that much of the southern half of Florida was experiencing a massive blackout, due to a problem at Florida Power & Light’s Turkey Point power plant.

Topics: NewmanPR, PR Practice, PR Solutions

It was 1972 and I was one merit badge shy of becoming an Eagle Scout, the Boy Scout’s highest rank and honor. But then the Watergate scandal broke, Richard Nixon was shown to be a crook and word got out that he also had been an Eagle Scout.
In tune with the tempo of the times, [...]

Topics: In the News, PR Practice

At the start of the new year, we thought it might be interesting to see what some of our PR colleagues think will happen in the public relations industry in 2008. So we sent out a query on ProfNet and received some interesting prognostications.
One of the more far-out predictions came from Tina Kicklighter, vice president [...]

Topics: NewmanPR, PR Practice, PR Theory

Photos by Andy Newman
The distinctive red, white and blue winged-funnel (left photo) on Carnival Cruise Lines ships is a company icon.
The top of it almost served as a photo platform for me last week.
I was on the Carnival Inspiration to produce an editorial photo library of the 11-year-old ship that had undergone significant [...]

Topics: PR Practice, Photography

“If he found somebody’s car parked and knew they were hunting, he would politely leave a message telling them not to come back again and disable the car, putting a few bullet holes in the gas tank or the engine.”

Topics: In the News, PR Practice, PR Solutions, Photography

The Nov. 9 Washington Post reported an internal investigation into a fake news conference staged by the Federal Emergency Management Agency during last month’s California wildfires found the agency’s press secretary directed aides to pose as reporters, secretly coached them during the briefing and ended the event after a final, scripted question was asked, [...]

Topics: In the News, PR Practice

A recent announcement by Royal Caribbean International to eliminate the Sovereign of the Seas from its fleet later this year brought to mind the 1988 introduction of this legendary ship in the Port of Miami.

Topics: In the News, NewmanPR, PR Practice, PR Solutions

I like the term “Web 2.0″ about as much as the word “blogosphere.” So it was with some glee that I encountered bullshitr beta, which automatically generates B.S. phrases straight out of the Web 2.0 playbook.
This could really be useful if you need to impress your boss or bamboozle a client by appearing to understand [...]

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REPORT FROM ACROSS THE POND
MANCHESTER, UK — Here at Society of American Travel Writers (SATW) convention for perhaps my 30th visit to the United Kingdom since World War II, I am again reminded of the vast changes from the war-torn Britain I encountered in 1944 as a U.S. Air Corps officer.
Although then the British pound [...]

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