11 Dec 2000
| by JULIA HOOD
ALBANY, NY: General Electric has won the support of 60 local governments in a PR battle waged to avoid the Environmental Protection Agency s proposed dollars 460 million bill for cleaning up the Hudson River.
11 Dec 2000
| by MATTHEW ARNOLD
NEW YORK: PR Newswire has unveiled plans to add a feature to its online news releases which will allow readers to give feedback, view additional company information, and buy company products, possibly even stocks and bonds.
11 Dec 2000
| by DOUGLAS QUENQUA
WASHINGTON: Former White House press secretary Mike McCurry admitted to The Hill last week that his strategy for handling President Clinton s Monica Lewinsky scandal was exactly wrong.
11 Dec 2000
| by DOUGLAS QUENQUA
WASHINGTON: Unlikely forces have come together to call attention to the case of Juan Raul Garza, the convicted killer of three who this week stands to become the first man executed by the federal government in 37 years.
11 Dec 2000
| by CLAIRE ATKINSON
NEW YORK: Havas Advertising met the partners of newly acquired IR agency Abernathy MacGregor Group last week to hammer out a global expansion strategy.
11 Dec 2000
| by JULIA HOOD
ATLANTA, GA: Facing continuing PR problems and labor headaches, Delta Airlines has taken positive action and launched a targeted effort to communicate with passengers.
11 Dec 2000
WATERTOWN, MA: Sterling Hager has announced the addition of four new client accounts: Counsel Communications, LLC, FairMarket, Vividon, and WordStream.
11 Dec 2000
| by CHRIS BARNETT
Despite news of disappointing ad revenues, sagging share prices and staff sackings, Salon.com still won an award for original online journalism from the Online News Association and Columbia University s Graduate School of Journalism this month. It was a badly needed shot of adrenaline for the Webzine.
11 Dec 2000
She s a hip-hopping, wine-slurping, turtle-saving bossyboots who knows more than any person should about how 3,000 dead worms smell. Meet PR s most appropriately-named exec, Susan Tellem, president and CEO of Tellem Worldwide.
04 Dec 2000
| by CLAIRE ATKINSON
NEW YORK: Havas Advertising has swooped on IR shop Abernathy McGregor Group for an estimated dollars 80 million, after Cordiant Communications made an unprecedented retreat from the bidding.