Tech companies' customers may think they are being served. But they are often the ones providing the service, acting as free lobbyists for commercial interests.
What do Sepp Blatter's former fiefdom FIFA and Dow Chemical boss Andrew Liveris have in common?
Communication advisers FTI Consulting have done a fair stint in limbo recently. They let Third Person founders Ross Thornton and Jim Kelly walk away, only for the pair to hang out a new shingle with former Tripod colleague Lauren Thompson.
Things were purring along nicely at Neil Perry Mutual (just focus-grouping a new nickname) in Sydney on Wednesday.
The star-making system of the future, it turns out, needs the star-making system of the past – or at least a swarm of agents and managers has decided it does.
Speaking of CrapCo, who would the dark sorcerer of corporate PR helping Mackenzie and his troops with selling their demerger message? None other than Tim Duncan of Melbourne PR firm Hintons.
The Australian’s business editor, Geoff Elliott, a former Washington correspondent for the once-respected newspaper, is going off to do PR for the fossils running long-forgotten Cosway. It’s a perfect fit really, given the last time Cosway ran a big transaction coincided with the last time Elliott broke a big business story and with the last time Alanis Morissette was on the charts.
Richard Edelman predicts his PR firm will soon hit $1 billion in revenues, but it will be a business far less about classic media management than helping blue chip clients to disseminate their own content.
The Australian Bankers Association is seeking to reposition itself as a more effective lobbyist by replacing three staff who were largely focused on reacting to the government’s agenda with three new employees who will influence government policy through economic analysis.
Former PR executive Justine Sacco has become a worldwide target for nasty jokes and vicious insults over the weekend after posting a Twitter...
If you are a man at a senior level in these three fields hang onto your job like grim death. You may not get another one, because they are f...
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