The News Review:
- Apple’s curious PR problem
- Mayor hires INK owner for public relations director
- PR News Announces Finalists in Platinum PR Awards
- bama Clinton Helps North Korea In PR Coup
Apple’s curious PR problem
CNNMoney.com
But this isn’t really about a bawdy dictionary. It’s about a public relations problem that has already triggered a federal investigation and now threatens to spin out of control. The problem is that Apple Inc. has two faces and the mask that hides the side that’s not so nice has started to slip. The computer and gadget-buying public sees Apple by and large as well-managed company extraordinarily attentive to its needs from Apple’s user-friendly operating systems to its legions of hand-holding retail and support staff. Apple’s suppliers know it as something quite different: a tough no-nonsense hard-bargaining client that demands total secrecy and takes no prisoners when things go wrong.
Mayor hires INK owner for public relations director
News Sentinel
Robinson said he hasn’t decided whether to put his media assets in a blind trust or sell them while he works for the city. Either way he said the staff at INK is prepared to carry on without him. Robinson has been involved in journalism and public relations for more than 20 years. He has worked as news director at WANE-TV a reporter for WRTV-TV in Indianapolis and in advertising sales at Fort Wayne Newspapers. City officials said Robinson will provide strategic thinking for the city’s public-information efforts and coordinate the work of at least six spokesmen and spokeswomen employed by the city. Robinson also will work with 311 call-center staff area advocates and other city employees to disseminate consistent timely information.
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PR News Announces Finalists in Platinum PR Awards
TMCnet
ZZZ END –> [August 06 2009] PR News Announces Finalists in Platinum PR Awards (PR Web Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Lego World Wildlife Fund Weber Shandwick and American Express are among the organizations that made the short list in PR News’ Platinum PR Awards honoring the most innovative and successful public relations campaigns of the past year the top PR firms and the campaigns that compelled the judges to declare: "wow!"Rockville MD (PRWEB) – Lego World Wildlife Fund Weber Shandwick and American Express are among the organizations that made the short list in PR News’ Platinum PR Awards honoring the most innovative and successful public relations campaigns of the past year the top PR firms and the campaigns that compelled the judges to declare: "wow!"The finalists in this year’s awards program include corporations nonprofits and agencies large and small. The award winners will be announced at an ctober 21 2009 awards luncheon at the Grand Hyatt in New York City and in PR News’ Platinum PR Awards special issue in ctober. The luncheon will be held the day before the PR News Digital PR Next Practices Summit on ctober 22 also at the Grand Hyatt.
bama Clinton Helps North Korea In PR Coup
Bayou Buzz
The journalists who work for Al Gore’s television network were captured when they mistakenly entered North Korean territory while working near the border area with China. The release is being portrayed in the media as a big victory for America and a major diplomatic coup for Bill Clinton. Actually this whole event is a major public relations victory for North Korea. This regime is a brutal communist dictatorship. The dictator Kim Jong-Il is a known killer who has been developing nuclear weapons. He is a terrorist who brutalizes his own people and constantly threatens the civilized world. Several weeks ago the North Korean tyrant launched some nuclear weapons that landed harmlessly in the Pacific cean; however these tests were a major provocation.