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A few weeks ago the Global Alliance asked its 66 association members, from as many countries, to urge their 160 thousand individual members to participate to an on-line global survey.…
Richard Edelman’s recent decision to withdraw his company from the US Council of Pr Firms on the grounds that ‘we disagree with the Council on a few fundamental points’… as…
This blog was made available to the public yesterday September 1 and, first of all, I must apologize to visitors for having decided to temporarily remove my interview with Harold…
All hell broke loose in our community these last few days following the British media stampede on the news that Blair’s government had trebled its public relations expenses in the…
The other day, Italian Premier Romano Prodi, in saluting his young compatriots sailing off to Lebanon to form the larger part of the UN military peacekeeping force, unabashedly called this…
On 24th August 2006, a landmark debate was initiated in the UK. Ruth Kelly, the Communities Secretary launched the government’s new Commission on Integration and Cohesion ‘to look at how…
In every country, the public relations profession is being constantly and increasingly criticized by mainstream media and social critics for its buffering mode of action. Most recently it was Der…
The full assumption of a mentality coupled with an appropriate language, both coherent with today’s managerial culture, are mandatory ‘conditions’ if we -as public relations professionals- are to obtain (and…
Does the public relations profession hinder or enhance our democratic institutions? This question, proposed a few weeks ago in a debate format at the Annual General Meeting of UK’s Chartered…
Until today most efforts in evaluating and measuring the economic impact of public relations in a given country have analysed public relations as an industry where demand and offer are…