Free Media Database for UK Media
Here’s another free online database of journalists, covering the UK media: journalisted.com It’s pretty simple: just go to that page, type in as much of the name as you know, and get a set of matches. For instance, here’s a link to a search for Smith. And here’s a page for one of the journalists [...]
Tiger Should Go With His “New Hugh” Persona
Now that the stories about Tiger Woods have descended from “marital woes” to “all out sex/party maniac,” I think Tiger needs a new strategy: Tiger should go full-steam ahead and plant his flag as “the new Hugh Hefner,” or in my shorthand (trademark pending), “The New Hugh.” I’m serious here. Hugh Hefner has made a [...]
The Ugly Truth About Tiger Woods and All His Enablers
So it turns out that Tiger Woods has been a carousing, hard partying guy, both as a bachelor and as a married man. In essence, this doesn’t surprise me one bit — in fact, it makes a lot more sense than the partial stories that were coming out the first week about his “transgressions.” I [...]
Death of E&P is a milestone worth noting
Neilsen announced yesterday that it was shuttering Editor & Publisher, the iconic newspaper industry trade magazine that has chronicled the newspaper business for 108 years. I’d been wondering about the relevance of E&P in past months, so after getting over the initial shock, this decision comes as no surprise. E&P played an essential role in [...]
Company Gets $500,000 in VC Funding to Bridge the Gap Between PR and Media
I am one who believes there will always be a chasm between the media and PR, unless and until the media dies and all media is PR. Which I hope does not happen. I’ve been working on the media/PR divide much of my career. I was known as a sympathic media person who helped PR [...]
Tiger Woods and the Concept of Super-Replicators
One of the more interesting things that has been said about Tiger Woods is that now he is “human like the rest of us.” This is undoubtedly true, though quite painful for him and us to live through this week. We all have our human failings — can you imagine coming to terms with yours [...]
Tiger Woods Caught With His Pants Down, But He Keeps His Guard Up
Uh-oh. It turns out that where there was Thanksgiving Day smoke, there was definitely fire. Tiger Woods has been caught red-handed being a philandering adulterer. Goodbye pristine reputation, maybe goodbye marriage. But is it goodbye golf game and goodbye endorsements? No and probably not. Woods issued another statement today, this time saying he “let my [...]
“Who Will Pay the Messenger” Is Indeed the Question
I am not a believer that print media is all but dead. But I am a believer that the highest profile print media, namely big city newspapers, are, in fact, all but dead (with one notable exception, the New York Times). This is not, as many assume, simply because the Internet came along and took [...]
Tiger Woods Takes the Right Media Relations Tack
As the Tiger Woods car accident story was becoming known and starting to be covered in the media, my other half passed along an article talking about “what Tiger should do,” and suggesting that I weigh in. In the moment, I have to say that I had a hard time forming a strategy, partly due [...]