Something for everyone
04 Dec 2006 | by Craig McGuire
Much like the Lone Star State itself, the PR and business communities in Texas are large and fascinatingly diverse.
WASHINGTON: Ketchum managed media relations for a recent week-long trip to the US by Gazprom deputy chairman Alexander Medvedev, who spoke at a US-Russia Business Council lunch in Washington and the Harvard Business School and conducted interviews with Business Week, the Wall Street Journal, and other...
Much like the Lone Star State itself, the PR and business communities in Texas are large and fascinatingly diverse.
SACRAMENTO - Edelman has won a hotly contested pitch for the California Energy Commission's $4.3 million public education campaign about solar energy.
WASHINGTON: The American Petroleum Institute (API), the trade association representing the US oil and natural gas industry, said it plans to broaden "educational advocacy" efforts directed at public policy experts, regulatory officials, and other influential individuals starting in January 2007.
HOUSTON: CITGO in recent weeks has boosted its dedication to media outreach, as well as running print and TV ads throughout the US, to stem negative reaction to anti-US statements by Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, whose government holds a 50% stake in the company.
WASHINGTON: The Department of Energy (DOE), working with the Environmental Protection Agency, on October 4 will look to internal communications as it launches a month-long program to encourage US households to replace at least one incandescent light bulb with a compact fluorescent light bulb (CFL).
Recognizing it faced more than a disaster, the internal PR team adjusted its tactics for the lone survivor
HOUSTON: BP has hired former US District Judge Stanley Sporkin to serve as ombudsman and to help streamline its internal communications system.
SAN ANTONIO, TX: AT&T has relaunched and made significant changes to its emergency planning Web site Vital Connections after a hurricane season survey of the Gulf Coast region found that 39% of respondents do not have an emergency communications plan in place.
ANCHORAGE, AK: BP has more than doubled the number of external communications people working in its Anchorage, AK, crisis-response unit in light of its announcement August 7 that it would cease more than half its production in Prudhoe Bay - the largest oil field in the US - because of severe pipe corrosion...
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