Dan Dunne, APR, Director of External Communications for Erickson Living and an active PRSA Maryland board member, was elected into the national Public Relations Society of America College of Fellows for his significant contributions to the public relations profession....
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Twitter Eliminates Millions of Suspicious Accounts
Twitter will begin removing tens of millions of suspicious accounts from users’ followers, signaling a major new effort to restore trust on the popular but embattled platform, reports The New York Times, which added that the move "takes aim at a pervasive form of...
RED Releases Rhapsochord Software System for Podcast Ads
The Washington Post’s Research, Experimentation and Development (RED) team has released Rhapsochord, a software system that, states The Post, "uses automation to monitor and dynamically insert ads against an entire catalogue of podcasts, past and present. In addition...
YouTube Working to Ensure Its News is “Real News”
Google’s YouTube says it is taking steps to ensure the veracity of news on its service by cracking down on misinformation and supporting news organizations, according to Associated Press, which added that the company said "it will make “authoritative” news sources...
NBC’s Left Field Seeks New Ways to Tell News Stories
As TV news audiences age and younger viewers disperse to the far corners of social media to stay informed, TV NewsCheck asks: "what’s a network to do to stay relevant? "For the past year, NBC Left Field has been tasked with finding out. The digital video unit of NBC...
“Frenemies”: The Epic Disruption of the Ad Business (and Everything Else) According to Ken Auletta
By Cary Hatch Advertising is not dead, but somewhere between “whistling through the graveyard” and adapting to be more useful to consumers and reaching them by being more meaningful. This seems to be one of the over-arching conclusions of Ken Auletta’s 12th book;...
AARP Launches Weekly Podcast with Bob Edwards
AARP launched "An AARP Take on Today℠," a weekly podcast hosted by Bob Edwards, the original and longtime host of NPR's flagship program "Morning Edition." Each new episode will feature in-depth news interviews on timely topics with guest experts on health, work,...
Netflix Fires Comms Director for Using the N-Word
Netflix fired its communications director for using the N-word at least twice during meetings, reported the Independent on June 23, which added that "Jonathan Friedland, a former Disney executive, said he felt “awful” for what he described as a “lapse". "In an...
Around Town: Wine Association Taps REQ for Web Design, Vox Media’s Concert Signs New Publishers, More
WSWA, the national association representing the wholesale tier of the wine and spirits industry, selected REQ to redesign and relaunch their current website. The newly transformed website will have intuitive architectural and functional capabilities to help WSWA...
Lovely Monsters: The Chaser of Storms
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. – Rabindranath Tagore Photographer Camille Seaman is a Shinnecock Indian. She has spent her career illustrating the interconnection of all life. When she was...
Erickson Living’s Dan Dunne Elected to PRSA College of Fellows
Dan Dunne, APR, Director of External Communications for Erickson Living and an active PRSA Maryland board member, was elected into the national Public Relations Society of America College of Fellows for his significant contributions to the public relations profession....
Twitter Eliminates Millions of Suspicious Accounts
Twitter will begin removing tens of millions of suspicious accounts from users’ followers, signaling a major new effort to restore trust on the popular but embattled platform, reports The New York Times, which added that the move "takes aim at a pervasive form of...
RED Releases Rhapsochord Software System for Podcast Ads
The Washington Post’s Research, Experimentation and Development (RED) team has released Rhapsochord, a software system that, states The Post, "uses automation to monitor and dynamically insert ads against an entire catalogue of podcasts, past and present. In addition...
YouTube Working to Ensure Its News is “Real News”
Google’s YouTube says it is taking steps to ensure the veracity of news on its service by cracking down on misinformation and supporting news organizations, according to Associated Press, which added that the company said "it will make “authoritative” news sources...
NBC’s Left Field Seeks New Ways to Tell News Stories
As TV news audiences age and younger viewers disperse to the far corners of social media to stay informed, TV NewsCheck asks: "what’s a network to do to stay relevant? "For the past year, NBC Left Field has been tasked with finding out. The digital video unit of NBC...
“Frenemies”: The Epic Disruption of the Ad Business (and Everything Else) According to Ken Auletta
By Cary Hatch Advertising is not dead, but somewhere between “whistling through the graveyard” and adapting to be more useful to consumers and reaching them by being more meaningful. This seems to be one of the over-arching conclusions of Ken Auletta’s 12th book;...
AARP Launches Weekly Podcast with Bob Edwards
AARP launched "An AARP Take on Today℠," a weekly podcast hosted by Bob Edwards, the original and longtime host of NPR's flagship program "Morning Edition." Each new episode will feature in-depth news interviews on timely topics with guest experts on health, work,...
Netflix Fires Comms Director for Using the N-Word
Netflix fired its communications director for using the N-word at least twice during meetings, reported the Independent on June 23, which added that "Jonathan Friedland, a former Disney executive, said he felt “awful” for what he described as a “lapse". "In an...
Around Town: Wine Association Taps REQ for Web Design, Vox Media’s Concert Signs New Publishers, More
WSWA, the national association representing the wholesale tier of the wine and spirits industry, selected REQ to redesign and relaunch their current website. The newly transformed website will have intuitive architectural and functional capabilities to help WSWA...
Lovely Monsters: The Chaser of Storms
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. – Rabindranath Tagore Photographer Camille Seaman is a Shinnecock Indian. She has spent her career illustrating the interconnection of all life. When she was...
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