Originally published April 18, 2011. Updated June 2026. Public relations gets used the right way and public relations gets used the wrong way — and the difference between the two has compounded across the last fifteen y
Originally published: April 12, 2011 · Updated: June 16, 2026 The San Francisco Examiner ran an editorial in April 2011 attacking the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency for spending $100,000 on an outside PR
Originally published: March 29, 2011 · Updated: June 16, 2026 In March 2011 The New York Times wrote about a wave of reality television built around entrepreneurs — America's Next Great Restaurant, Shark Tank, The Appre
Originally published: March 15, 2011 · Updated: June 16, 2026 The 2011 Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism State of the News Media report landed on March 14, 2011. The headline finding: for the first time, more Ame
Originally published: March 9, 2011 · Updated: June 16, 2026 In March 2011 the Natural Products Expo opened in Anaheim, the Nissan Leaf had just launched as the first mass-market U.S. electric car, Subway had passed McD
As revolutions spread throughout the Middle East you can’t help but notice declining coverage in media – Quite different than the coverage of March 2003 during the American invasion of Iraq, with embedded reporters and c
While it is still uncertain whether Egyptian youngsters will achieve their end goals, the young have not disappointed as they have moved quickly and unhesitatingly to form nothing less than a ‘ New World Order ’ – utiliz
Originally published: January 20, 2011 · Updated: June 16, 2026 The Council of Public Relations Firms released its Q4 2010 industry survey in January 2011 with the headline that new-business pipelines were widening and
Every founder I talk to is building for a customer who no longer exists. The customer they are building for opens Google, reads articles, clicks through to a website, and converts on a landing page. That customer is bei
Alexa Ray Joel sat down with Dr. Oz to talk about her 2009 overdose. A textbook celebrity disclosure PR move — controlling the framing instead of letting the tabloids define the story.
I read this post from a venture capitalist and found it to be true as an entrepreneur today at the age of 36, owning 1 of the 13 largest independent Public Relations firms in the US, and pondering what’s next: I don’t th
Originally published: January 3, 2011 · Updated: June 16, 2026 In January 2011, The Holmes Report — now PRovoke Media — published its 2010 Agency Report Card on 5W. Paul Holmes wrote that 5W was among the most aggressiv