Remembering The Jayson Blair Scandal
This month, PBS premiered a documentary called “The Fragile Trust” on the shocking story of former New York Times reporter Jayson Blair.
Subway Customer Pays For Complaint To Go Viral
A Subway customer fed up with a lack of response about a sandwich he bought that he claims included a dead cockroach paid to have his complaint go viral.
People Matter; So Does Social Media
Tim Armstrong’s recent comments helps illustrate the point that people matter.
Is the Press Getting More Respect? One Survey Says So
There hasn’t been much to gloat about with the press these days, with everything from … Read More >
What Print’s Slow Transition to Digital Means for PR
The digital age and pay walls are finally taking hold at the nation’s largest newspapers, … Read More >
The $16 muffin: A perfect example of sensationalized reporting and how the media ignores the facts
GroundFloor Media in Denver offers some crisis communication lessons from the media’s reporting of the “$16 muffin.”
GroundFloor expert quoted in PRDaily story about BART’s crisis communications response debacle
GroundFloor’s Gil Rudawsky offers his take on the mistakes made by Bay Area Rapid Transit … Read More >
Issues Management: 3 tips for managing nasty remarks about your client in comment sections
There’s freedom of speech—and then there’s the comments section for online news. Clearly, the bounds … Read More >
Coal giant falls victim to spoof PR campaign
Did you hear coal giant Peabody Energy is giving away kid-friendly asthma inhalers? Or that … Read More >
Southwest’s PR team taps social media after flight skids off runway
Southwest Airlines is covering its social media bases on Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, LinkedIn, Gowalla, and … Read More >