Esha News Monitoring in India Offers TV Reports, Clips.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-6 July 2008-Esha News Monitoring in India Offers TV Reports, Clips(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Esha News Monitoring Services, a television news monitoring agency in India, is launching a web page service, a service where television reports and clips can be accessed from the desktop through...

Duperreault to the rescue.
As the agent-broker world well knows, veteran insurance executive Brian Duperreault is the new CEO at the helm of the troubled Marsh & McLennan Companies, to the delight of analysts who were critical of his predecessor, Michael Cherkasky, who was consequently tossed overboard. Cherkasky succeeded Jeffrey Greenberg...

Editor's page.
Most of us are unable to accurately predict the future. With that stipulation, there is a project currently underway that I predict will have huge implications on the provision of professional services for adults who are visually impaired in the United States. This project has the potential to change...

Obama's narrow victory has followers comparing Dem candidate to slain RFK.
"So it has been for every generation that faced down the greatest challenges and the most improbable odds to leave their children a world that's better, and kinder, and more just."--Sen. Barack Obama, June 4, 2008. DETROIT -- Sen. Barack Obama offered hope, not fear, in his...

Rhyne and Riazzi receive NTCA associate member Achievement Award.
NTCA honored Joe Rhyne and Pat Riazzi as recipients of the 2007 NTCA Associate Member Outstanding Achievement Award during an awards presentation at the NTCA 2007 Fall Conference, September 16-19, in Denver, Colo. Rhyne is vice president/investment officer and Riazzi is director/investment officer at Riazzi & Rhyne Investment Group...

Rankings then and now: you've come a long way, baby!
Before the computer, fax machine, telephone and even the typewriter were invented, our legal marketing predecessors felt the same pressures we do to get their firms on the right lists. They worked feverishly, albeit with quivering quill in hand instead of a mouse, to get listed among the elite....

US Airways Makes Exec Changes.
TRAVEL AND LEISURE CLOSE-UP-14 April 2008-US Airways Makes Exec Changes(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com US Airways announced it has promoted Captain Lyle Hogg to the position of Vice President, Flight Operations, and named James Olson to the position of Vice President, Corporate Communications. Both officer...

Smith, Ronald D. Becoming a Public Relations Writer: a Writing Process Workbook for the Profession Second Edition.
Smith, Ronald D. Becoming a Public Relations Writer: A Writing Process Workbook for the Profession Second Edition. Mahwah, NJ/London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003. Pp. xv, 464. ISBN 0-8058-4260-8 (pb.) $44.95. The target audience of this book consists of students in public relations classes and all others aiming...

Building relationships between organizations and publics: examining the linkage between organization-public relations, evaluations of satisfaction, and behavioral intent.
"The emergence of relationship management as a paradigm for public relations scholarship and practice calls into question the essence of public relations--what it is and what it does or should do, its function and value within organizational structure and the greater society" (Ledingham & Bruning, 2000a, p. xiii). Scholars...

The National Public Relations Congress: Building better relationships for a better world.
Todays public relations professionals are required to work in an environment that is sensitive to the needs of their own organizations and those of the various publics they serve. These practitioners must be able to design both external and internal strategic communications plans and integrate the new theoretical and...