A top official at the Public Relations Society of America weighs in on the PR implications of the shuttering of the News of the World.
A former editor at the Rocky Mountain News, which closed under far different circumstances from those at News of the World, reflects on the British paper’s demise.
The popular app, which stores files in a cloud so users can access them anywhere, experienced a significant security lapse on Sunday. Its PR lapse may have been worse.
The move was seemingly a result of the film critic’s tweet about the death of ‘Jackass’ star Ryan Dunn. UPDATE: A Facebook rep said it was an ‘error.’ UPDATE 2: In a blog post, Ebert says he was ‘probably too quick to tweet.’
Exhibit the qualities they need, and you might find yourself behind glass—in an office, not one of the displays.
Recent open-mic gaffes—most notably from President Obama—offer lessons for handling today’s 24-hour news cycle.
Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World apologized for hacking into private voicemail accounts. It’s about time.
A big scoop in The Guardian says that the U.S. military is developing software that will allow it to ‘influence Internet conversations and spread pro-American propaganda’ on Twitter and Facebook.
The word literally is constantly used and abused. Learn how it happened, and why, maybe, that’s not such a bad thing.
But his 15 minutes of fame aren’t over. There’s a reality show in the works.
A hotshot reporter at Towson University blows the lid off a drinking scandal—but nobody at the school read about it.
Want 500,000 people to visit your website? Try pitching a story to a video blogger—just be careful how you do it.
New feature lets users organize their follows in an array of categories.
Turns out Twitter is fit for a king-to-be’s decree. The big news this morning is that Britain’s Prince William and his girlfriend Kate Middleton are engaged to be married. The announcement came this morning via an official press release, but that release was “somewhat scooped by the accompanying tweet that distilled the official confirmation of the first major royal wedding of the new millennium into a 148-character (yes, a tad long) social media post,” according to The Wash…
The hotel industry has joined the growing list of professions that have embraced Twitter, and Hotel magazine has the full scoop on how hotels—large and small—are using the micro-blogging service. For instance, the Rancho Bernardo Inn near San Diego offered a Twitter-exclusive Survivor Package. “For US $19 a night,” explained Hotel ’s Adam Kirby, “willing guests would get a room but forgo breakfast, honor bar, heat and air conditioning, pillows, sheets, lights, lin…
