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NYC soup kitchen bids adieu to 2009, with caviar

December 28th, 2009 at 10:53 » Comments (2)

When the dining room of a popular gourmet restaurant in Manhattan was gutted by fire, the refrigerators were packed with expensive food that needed a new home -- fast!   The ...more »

Appreciating CEOs who appreciate PR

November 16th, 2009 at 10:35 » Comments Off

Don't let the mustard-colored sports coat fool you.  Tom Kunz is one hip CEO. As head of Cenury 21 Real Estate LLC, Kunz is in an industry that's being disintermediated by ...more »

Conference overload in fragmented PR market

November 7th, 2009 at 17:35 » Comments Off

My former boss had a funny line to describe how often the owner of a mid-sized New York investor relations agency showed up at free media breakfasts:  "He'd show up ...more »

Freshman congressman builds brand as champion of ‘innovation economy’

October 20th, 2009 at 11:45 » Comments Off

Venture capitalists have a friend in the freshman congressman from upstate New York,  Rep. Scott Murphy, D-Glens Falls. A former VC himself, Murphy is getting an earful from investors who complain ...more »

Guest post: Baruch College’s ‘Dynamics of PR’ panel

October 19th, 2009 at 11:04 » Comments Off

By Alice Fong, Business Editor, The Ticker From left, Jeff Gluck, Peter Himler, Don Middleberg, Bill Southard (photo by Denis Gostev) Peter Himler speaks at Baruch College. (photo ...more »

A media debate of Titanic proportions

October 15th, 2009 at 15:08 » Comments Off

The media execs attending lunch at the Paley Center for Media Tuesday seemed relieved that they could take a break from watching their P&L's get jackhammered by scrappy new entrants ...more »

Consolidation accelerates among PR, marketing services firms

August 5th, 2009 at 12:31 » Comments Off

[caption id="attachment_395" align="aligncenter" width="215" caption="Mirage? M&A drought appears to be ending in PR, marketing space."][/caption] After a long drought, M&A is picking up among the service providers relied on by ...more »

Hyperlocal lessons from small town radio

July 26th, 2009 at 13:26 » Comments (2)

[caption id="attachment_321" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Dave Mance, in leather jacket, taught me Hyperlocal before it was an Internet business model"][/caption] Applying the knowledge absorbed early in life is not always obvious. Case in ...more »

DTV: Even Radio Shack didn’t have the answer

June 29th, 2009 at 10:52 » Comments Off

Scores of Americans who live outside of metropolitan areas lost some good friends in June. And they weren't Michael Jackson, Billy Mays, Farrah Fawcett and Ed McMahon. The companions who disappeared ...more »

Online news industry finds (very) brief respite from bombing

May 8th, 2009 at 11:46 » Comments Off

I wasn't born yet when World War II was fought.   Yet I've seen plenty of newsreels and movies about the lives of terrified Europeans who fled into bomb shelters when ...more »
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