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Lesson From the Media Side

March 14, 2012 by Amy Doman

A good line surfaced during Q and A at a forum at PR firm Powell Tate on the implications of social media for journalists and journalism.

Panelist Howard Fineman of the Huffington Post was engaged in an exchange with an audience member on ethics and accuracy in the age of Twitter.

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March 8, 2012 by Amy Doman

You have to say “I’m Sorry” more than once

The latest TSA story igniting the social space…a nursing mom was forced to use her breast pump in a public restroom in order to get though airport security.  Read more

Bite Your Tongue

March 6, 2012 by Amy Doman

It’s not quite a Rush Limbaugh-esque on-air remark. But Winston-Salem (NC) Journal reporter Travis Fain’s inopportune comment to a school board member elicited an apology that contains a communications lesson of the first order.

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PR for PR

March 2, 2012 by Amy Doman

The old platitude within the Public Relations industry is that PR people are good at communicating for everyone except themselves.

No surprise, then, that the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) – the nation’s largest PR organization – last fall spearheaded a campaign to redefine the industry in collaboration with a dozen other organizations.

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Lessons from Chardon High School

February 29, 2012 by Amy Doman

Geauga County, Ohio Sheriff Daniel McLelland – in whose county the fatal Chardon High School shooting occurred Monday – believes proactive crisis response training prevented the incident from causing more panic in the community than it already had:

“Several years ago, the Chardon school district and local law enforcement began conducting drills, training, practice, if you would, for an event just like occurred today.

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NEWS OF THE WEIRD

February 27, 2012 by Amy Doman

Hard to find the old fashioned police blotter items in your local newspaper these days.  They’ve gone the way of the Private Eye’s  fedora.  Jim Romanesko, news media watchdog, says that there are so few beat reporters left, there’s no one left to go down to the roundhouse any more to pick up the noteworthy cop beat tidbits.

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Video Blog: “A tale of two universities”

February 17, 2012 by Amy Doman

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A Tale of Two Universities

February 17, 2012 by Amy Doman

In the news this week is another campus crisis. (click here) Fifteen students including three current football players at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth were arrested and charged with drug trafficking as a result of a police sting operation. Read more

Does the Board Need Training on Reg FD? Look at Diamond Foods…

February 14, 2012 by Amy Doman

The SEC’s Regulation Fair Disclosure, or Reg FD has been in effect for nearly 12 years now and essentially requires public companies to widely – not selectively – communicate material information. Read more

The Komen firestorm, and flip-flop

February 3, 2012 by Amy Doman

The sudden reversal by the Susan G. Komen For The Cure foundation will likely not end the controversy over its temporary withdrawal of funding for mammograms from Planned Parenthood. Without taking a position on the decision itself, and on the reversal, as communications consultants we at CommCore have several observations:

·    Why did they make the original announcement in the midst of a bitterly contested Presidential and Congressional election year in which Culture War issues such as abortion – which Planned Parenthood provides on-demand – are among the most divisive?

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