In this installment of our series, the New J-School, Tyler Perry makes her plea to print journalists: “Please Don’t Abandon Me”

BP is damned if they do, and doubly damned if they don’t. According to Reuters, the company has apparently purchased “oil spill” and related search terms from Google and other search engine providers in an effort to drive traffic to its Gulf of Mexico response website. This SEO strategy is a clear attempt by the company to control communications around the worst oil spill in U.S. history and improve sentiment about its brand within the media.

Today’s post is the third in our series introduced in January on Bateman Banter called The New J-School in which we examine the evolving nature of journalism in today’s digital age.
Tom Foremski, publisher of Silicon Valley Watcher, recently posted this interesting piece entitled MediaWatch: Journalists Won’t Report News Unless It Can Drive Page Views, which [...]

Bill Bourdon reacts to a May 2010 Fast Company article by Ben Paynter on the proliferation of social media tools and how major consumer brands are using them to build customer loyalty.

A recent surveyfrom CareerCast.com has gotten our industry in quite a tizzy. The survey looked at over 200 different professions and came up with a list of the Ten Most Stressful Jobs. Public Relations Officer came in at #8. It’s also worth noting that PR pros, advertising execs and CEOs were the only three office [...]

Much to the glee of journalists and the chagrin of PR practitioners, another “PR blunder” has hit the airwaves, this time under the pen of the folks at TechCrunch. Although I am always shocked by the carelessness exhibited by people pitching journalists when they KNOW if they make a mistake, there is a good chance [...]