Day: May 5, 2003

Anchorage is the latest in a long line of US cities looking for external PR assistance in building a more positive profile.

Another sign that the Internet is melting into everyday life, an Orlando PR firm, Bitner.com is renaming itself Bitner Goodman.

An interesting profile and interview with Las Vegas agency owner Solveig Thorsrud.

PR Week has an interesting feature on the role of consultants in the selection of a PR agency.

More on the Pan Pharmaceuticals crisis from the New Zealand Herald.

Further to my piece on the shrinking reputations of prominent financial analysts.  The Mercury News has a story on how one of the most prominent of all, Frank Quattrone is launching a PR campaign in an effort to regain lost ground.

Quattrone is calling in the Valley’s big guns to help out.  Tony Perkins of Red Herring fame is rallying around Quattrone calling him “a paragon of shrewdness, intelligence, business savvy and aggressive salesmanship.”