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Meet The US Tech Publicists Who Secretly Control The Media

1:45AM July 30, 2011 | Mat Honan

The publicists and communications managers in the technology industry have tough jobs. They have to spin crap products into good stories. And let’s face it, most of them are powerless. But not these dozen PR pros. More »

Entertainment

Microsoft Sorry For Tweet Cashing In On Amy Winehouse’s Death

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9:30AM July 26, 2011 | Danny Allen

Amy Winehouse’s music isn’t my cup of tea, but yeah: too soon Microsoft, too soon. The UK Xbox PR team learned an important lesson in taste and tact overnight after a tweet encouraging people to “remember Amy Winehouse” by downloading her album at social.zune.net. More »

News

Mark Zuckerberg’s New Spokesman Works Well With Liars

10:20PM June 15, 2011 | Ryan Tate

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has hired a new spokesman, Joe Lockhart. The choice has drawn approving murmurs in Washington, DC, and no wonder: This is the guy who handled the Monica Lewinsky scandal for Bill Clinton. More »

Entertainment

BP Takes PR Lessons From Domino’s

8:40AM June 18, 2010 | Brian Barrett

Why fix the spill when you can fix the brand? That pretty much sums it up, doesn’t it? We’ve seen how BP deals with coffee spills. Here’s how they deal with rebranding. More »

Online

Meet Leroy Stick, The Man Behind @BPGlobalPR

12:00PM June 3, 2010 | Leroy Stick - StreetGiant.com

My name is Leroy Stick and I am the man behind @BPGlobalPR.  First, let me begin by explaining my name. More »

Online

An Interesting Product Would Probably Work

2:45AM February 18, 2010 | John Herrman

I bet the Walkman would have trended, if Twitter was around then. I bet even Betamax would have burbled to the surface. Hell, I bet the first Walkman phone would have trended, back in 2005. So just do… anything. [SonyEricssonNA]

Behold! The Saddest Example Of Promotional Convergence Ever!

1:40PM October 23, 2009 | Adam Frucci

We got this from a PR person in our emails today. The text reads as follows… More »