Hurricane Sandy has wreaked havoc on all aspects of life in the North East. Everyone at CommCore is safe, although we all know someone with significant property damage.
One interesting measure of the storm and social media is how business-like and fact-based transportation companies – airlines, trains and buses — have been in their communications. Read more
Last week Beef Products, Inc. (BPI), the makers of what the beef industry calls “lean, finely-textured beef,” notoriously known to most of the public as Pink Slime, filed a major anti-defamation lawsuit against ABC News. Read more
The 2012 London Olympics are some of the most financially successful games for NBC and sponsors alike. Ratings are peaking at 35 million viewers for prime time. Even archery scored 1.5 million viewers during daytime on a weekday. Read more
When a respected publication like The Economist proclaims a scandal as global finance’s “tobacco moment,” you know it’s not referring to your average PR-crisis. The furor over Barclays’ alleged LIBOR interest rate fixing is not likely to go away anytime soon for two reasons, both of which should give finance execs pause:
• Experts agree that Barclays represents only the tip of the iceberg. Read more
The back-to-back car accidents involving Secretary of Commerce John Bryson this past weekend could have ended up burning the fingers of an Obama administration already trying to manage the President’s “private sector is doing fine” PR-fire. Read more