By Craig McGuire

Business Reporting

• 15 Minutes are up at Business Wire
• 2005 PR Agency Business Report: Right in the Middle
• ADP & Citicorp Finally Cut Deal for Crossmar
• ADP Buys Shark for $18M To Help Buy Side Cause
• ADP Continues Reorg; Quill Named Sr. VP
• ADP Still Reaching for Buy Side, With Prime Partner
• Aegon's Melson Set to Acquire Magnus from New York Life
• AFLAC Names GCI Agency of Record
• Agency Vet Opens His Own Shop
• AmeriCredit Downgrade Teeters on Ability to Raise Capital
• AmeriCredit Slices 350 Jobs as it Slows Originations
• An Interview With Richard Burdge: Keeping Up With Global STP at Reuters
• AOL, Time Warner IR Pros Prepare for More Regulatory Roadblocks
  Architect Leyva Movin' On Up, to the East Side
• As IT Budgets Inch Up, So Do Expectations
• At McGraw-Hill, Campaign to Tout Global Range
• Auto Finance News: Vol. 5, No. 10
• Auto Finance News: Vol. 5, No. 14
• Auto Finance News: Vol. 5, No. 16
• Auto Finance News: Vol. 5, No. 17
• Auto Finance News: Vol. 5, No. 18
• Auto Finance News: Vol. 5, No. 19
• Auto Finance News: Vol. 5, No. 20
• Auto Finance News: Vol. 5, No. 21
• Auto Finance News: Vol. 5, No. 22
• Auto Finance News: Vol. 5, No. 23
• Auto Finance News: Vol. 5, No. 24
• Auto Finance News: Vol. 6, No. 1
• Auto Finance News: Vol. 6, No. 3
• Auto Finance News: Vol. 6, No. 4
• Avoiding Corporate Culture Shock
• Bacon's Expands Service With Net, Broadcast Coverage
• Banca Di Roma Signs With SunGard for Worldwide Derivatives Systems
• Bank of America No Fee Mortgage Program
  
• Bankruptcy Filing Hits Record
• Battle of Biotech Arrives on US Shores
• 'Big Brother' Gets Beat up by Press, Public, and CBS Execs are Smiling
• Biotech Foods PR Debate Heats Up
• Bloomberg Readies Applix Link Launch; Wingz on Deck
• Bond Market Bucks, but Lenders Show Little Concern
• Branding: Olympus Fashions Plan to up Visibility of Cause, Products
• Brave New World: Traditional Silo Approach to Fin Comm Replaced by Integrated Ops
• BW, PRN Move to Expand Internet-based Monitoring Services
• Caithness Powers Up Its Support
  
• CDB's M&A Triple Play Creates Major Player
• CDB Unveils New Financial PR Arm
• CDR Nears Buy of IR Specialist Firm Sard Verbinnen
• CEOs Taking Active Role in Annual Report Creation
• Chase GIS Leaves Fingerprint on Apollo During Beta
• Cincinnati Plastic Surgeons Present New Face to Public
• Citigroup Settles FTC's Predatory Lending Suit for $215 Million
• Clear Channel Team Transmits a Global PR Message
• ‘'CNN Effect' and Other Factors Stifle Interest in Real Estate, Industry Vets Say
• Coleman Push Goes to Extremes
  
• Colorado Considers Two Predatory Lending Bills
• Companies Devote More Money to Publications Than Ever Before
• Conseco Halts Sale of Controversial Mortgage Insurance Product
• Conseco Losses Drop, Even as Credit Reserves Jump; Settles Class Suit for $120 Million
• Consumer Groups Blast HUD Over Upcoming Senate, Yield-Spread Hearing
• Crackdown on Child Labor in Queens
• CRM Usage Rising in Collection Units
• Corporate Board Games: A Look at Five Masters of Breaching the Boardroom
• CyberAlert Prexy Claims Deal With Supplier is Close
• Cycling's Doping Scandals Get Balanced Press
• 'Deal Junkie': The Corcoran Group's Pam Liebman is Standing Tall
• Deregulation Thrusting Energy Companies into Unfamiliar Territory
• Deregulation Means New PR Challenges for Utilities
• Despite Higher Auto Sales, Economists Expect Incentives to Slow
• Deutsche Asset Links Arms With International Affiliates
• Deutsche Bank Taps Ruder Finn
• Disagreements Over Meaning of New SEC Rule Fuel IR Controversy
• Dobbs Helps Viewers Rediscover the Value of 'Moneyline'
• DoctorSolve Cures US Sales Woes With Integrated Initiative
• 'Dottie' Takes Manhattan: The Woman Behind the Recent Blockbuster Douglas Elliman Deal
• Dow Jones Puts Stock in Wall Street 'toons
• Dr Pepper, Ketchum, and Disruptive PR
  
• Due to Technical Difficulties: Dow Jones Escapes Blame in Emulex Debacle

• Eckerd to Enter New York, $10 Million Lease
• Economic Development, Upstate New York Looks to Lure City Folks
• Ernst & Young - Starting its New Global PR Strategy at Home
• Even News Media Likes to Make News (Newsweek/MSNBC)
• Ex-Muni Staffers Sue CSFB for Lack of Closing Notice
• Fallout from Emulex Fiasco Hits Home at Internet Wire
• Fannie Backs Down and Kills Plan to Call its Securities
• FDIC's List of "Problem" Banks Grows Despite Record 2001 Earnings
• FD Manages PR for Rouse Sales to General Growth
• Fellowes Works ID Theft Angle
• Financial PR's New Guard: Practices at Large Agencies Have Had to Evolve
• First Alliance Tagged for $60M fine by FTC for Predatory Lending
• Former C&W Exec Lured Back to Agency Life
• FT.com Taps PN for Part of $15m Push
• Gartmore Global Sells Reporters on Micro Caps' Value
• Gavin Anderson in Top Brass Shuffle
• GCI Study Reveals Global M&A Coverage in US is Mostly Negative
• GE Mortgage Could Force GSEs to Hold More Capital
• Getting a Buzz from Bigger Business
• GSEs Pass OFHEO Stress Tests; Opponents Not Impressed
• Gulf Coast Lenders Brace for Hurricane Lili
• H.D. Vest Emerges With Free Tax Stunt
• The Hardees Hometown Tour
  
• Help Wanted: Lenders Staff Up at Twin Towers Job Expo
• Henkel Makes a New Idea Stick - Duct Tape Festival
  
• Holt Leaves Post at AC Nielsen for the Top PR Position at Whirlpool
• Honeywell IR Presents New Forecast, Alleviates Crisis
• Hoover Taps Middleberg
• How to Assemble a Crisis Management Toolkit
• How to Conduct Proper Media Training
• How to Enhance Your Litigation Strategy with PR
• How to Gain C-Level Respect
• How to Manage an Executive Exit
• How to Manage New Product Releases
• How to Manage Remote Relationships With Clients
• How to Manage Your Reputation
• How to Penetrate New Markets
• How to Put the IT in Publicity
• How to Reward Good Performance
• How to Keep a Client After Your Contact Departs
• How to Respond When Crisis is Not Your Fault
• HUD Secretary Preparing Major Announcement on Mortgage Reform, Sources Say
• Humorless Advocates Attempt Joke
• If It Ain't Broke...Neuberger Berman Re-ups With SunGard
• Industry Group Blasts SEC on Proposed Rule Change
• Interest Building For One-Stop Financial Services, Tower Group Finds
• Internet Wire Nets $17m VC Windfall
• Ingersoll-Rand Creates, Fills Executive Communications Position
• Imperato to Helm C&W's Healthcare
• Interpublic Gears up to Buy IR Giant
• Internet Wire Ups Service Offerings
• Invensys Signs GCI for Branding Push
• IR Pros See Change Following Birth of SEC's Dot-Com Commission
• IR Pros Work to Calm Fears in Wake of Market Volatility
• IR Group Kicks off Affiliate in Oregon
• Is CMRA Heading for a Break-Up?
• IT Managers Demanding More for Their Money
• Jefferies Completes Spin-off and Merger
• Job Prospects Grim in Real Estate Sector
• Kilborn Joke About Killing Bush Spells Trouble for CBS
• KNEX Leverages Toys With Made in USA Slogan
  
• Lexis Finds a Partner in Press Access
• Litigation PR: The Eliot Spitzer Syndrome
• Loan Collections & Technology: Vol. 3, No. 2
• Loan Collections & Technology: Vol. 3, No. 3
• Loan Collections & Technology: Vol. 3, No. 4
• Loan Collections & Technology: Vol. 3, No. 5
• Loan Collections & Technology: Vol. 3, No. 6
• Loan Collections & Technology: Vol. 3, No. 7
• Loan Collections & Technology: Vol. 3, No. 8
• Loan Collections & Technology: Vol. 3, No. 9
• Louisiana-Pacific CEO Gets 'Close Shave'on Big Sales
• Luxury Market Sluggish, But Should Improve, Insiders Expect
• Market Leaders: 10 Trailblazers in Today's Fast-paced FinCom Scene
• MaggieMoo Creates a Brand Icon
  
• MediaMap Challenges ProfNet With New SourceNet

• MediaMap Seeks Agency of Record
• Merrill Lynch Asia Names Ketchum
• MKI Gives C*ATS Marketing Team the Axe
• Nasdaq Plunges, but Pros Keep Quiet
• Natural PR Found in Natural Disaster
• Newswires Fortify Foreign Presence
• New York Times Roughs Up Killian for ITG's 1994 Performance - But What About 1995?
• NightClub Act II: Super Clubs in Effect
• Northwestern Scours Industry to Fill Vacant Director Slot at Medill School
• Newstream.com Debuts; 6,000 Journos Signed In
• NIRI Voices Views on the Evils of FD
• NIRI Lets Members Accept Stock as Pay for Services
• NIRI Criticizes SEC Disclosure Rule
• Nortel Not Guilty, Crisis Team Proves
• NYSE Works to Unveil 'Direct Plus' Plan While Handling Terror Warning
• NYSE, AMEX Debut Decimal Listings
• OnStar Puts Media Behind the Wheel
  
• Orbis Settles in Following Year-long Executive Mess
• Page Society's Bolton Looks to Boost PR Profile in C-Suite
• P&G Data Could Spur Firms to Mark Their Own PR Value
• Partners in Disclosure: Finance and Comm Pros are Collaborating More
• Pitch 'the Dream' to the Monied Lot
• PM&A Vendors Swap Euro, Y2k for STP, T+1 and More
• PResence Loses, Then Finds, a Prez
• PG&E Fills VP Post, Gains on Wall Street
• Pincuses Practice Internal Relations
• Product Launch - 'Finally, a Beard trimmer for Women'
• Product Launch - At Golf Rollout, Big Balls Mean Big Press
• Product PR - BSMG Chips Away at Wood Mistruths
• Pros Mop Up NYSE De-Listing Fallout
• PSB Energizes NY Office With Greece
• PR Serves Strong Brands Well in Market Fluctuations
• PR Play of the Week: Natural PR Found in Natural Disaster
• PR Play of the Week: A Press Kit Raised This Sunken Sub
• PR Play of the Week: Red Lobster Rolls Out 40-ft. Shellfish
• PRN Elevates Morin to CEO, Replacing Outgoing Capps
• Pros Mop Up NYSE De-Listing Fallout
• PR Powering Property Battle
• PR Pros Let Down by Smooth Y2K Transition
• Raytheon Boosts Math Careers
• Resort Builds Buzz With Books
• Rubik's Cube Prodigy Draws Attention at Trade Show
• SalesGenie Aims to be the Worst
  
• Shandwick Fights Fleishman-Hillard in Wall Street Journal Bid
• Small Caps With Big Ideas
• Smoothie King Gives the Troops a Little Refreshment
  
• Star Uses Napster for Princely Score
• Steady Communications Guides Merger
  
• Stream of Conference: The Boom in E-Conferencing
• Subimo Solidifies Its Standing
• Taking the IPO on the Road
• Terpin is Betting the Ranch on a Wired World
• The Battle of the Business Wires
• The Big Time: Barclays Global Investors' Worldwide IT Vision
• The Death and Dying Show: A Hard Sell to Mainstream Media
• The Games Changers: CMOs Who've Changed the Way the World Looks at Their Companies
• The Money Makers: Members of an Elite Crop of FinPR Pros are Becoming Specialists
• The Road to PR: Among Industry's Senior Ranks, Few Began College With PR in Mind
• The Wired World: Global Trends Opening Up Opptys Overseas
• Thomson Brings Carson to IR Fold
• Translating Money: Globalization creates a Wealth of Financial Comms Challenges
• TVN Ups Hispanic Web, TV Services
• UBS Masters the Art of Communicating
• Uncle Bens Helps Feed Children
  
• Using 'Love Bug' Crisis to Promote Recovery Software
• Vendor FRI Sues SS&C; Cites Relationship With Ex-Staffers
• Vendors Bite Back: Survey of Portfolio System Vendors Takes a Little Heat
• Virgin Epitomizes Spirit of New York
• Wall Street Journal on Verge of Hiring PR Agency
• Webcasters Capitalize on SEC's Disclosure Mandate
• Wire Services Up Overseas Muscle

• How to 10k Wrap, or Not 10k Wrap
  
• How to Achieve Greater Comm Efficiency with Organization
• How to Adjust RFP Proposals to Changing Times
  
• How to Assemble a Crisis Management Toolkit
• How to Avoid a Nightmare Press Conference
• How to Build a Better Broadcast Package
• How to Build a Relationship With an Editorial Board
• How to Conduct Proper Media Training
• How to Create an "E-Kit" Media Package
• How to Cut Ties Without Burning Bridges
  
• How to Deliver Business Results with Press Releases
  
• How to Develop a Virtual Agency
• How to Develop PSAs on Child Health Issues
• How to Draw Top Journalists to Your Event
• How to Enhance Client Service to Ride Out Economic Unease
  
• How to Enhance Your Litigation Strategy with PR
• How to Expand Web Sites Features to Drive Readership
  
• How to Extend Your Video News Release (VNR)
• How to Facilitate a Graceful Exit
• How to Find the Middle Ground in Staffing
  
• How to Find the Position that is Right for You
• How to Gain C-Level Respect
• How to Get Beyond the Talking Heads
• How to Get a Celebrity to Say Yes to Your Event
• How to Get Into Premier Magazine
• How to Get on Entertainment Tonight
• How to Get on Extra!
• How to Get on Good Morning America
• How to Get on Lou Dobbs Moneyline
• How to Go Beyond Basic Press Release Distribution
  
• How to Groom Your Company for an IPO Road Show
• How to Get on The Daily Show
• How to Get on the LA Times Calendar Section
• How to Get on The Money Show
• How to Help the Little Guy Make a Big Splash
• How to Influence Market Coverage
  
• How to Inject Life into Healthcare PR
  
• How to Keep Your Press Releases Relevant
  
• How to Land on “Best Of…” Lists
• How to Leverage Online Video to Manage Reputation
  
• How to Leverage the Right Tools to Get Radio Attention
  
• How to Live in a Material World
• How to Learn to Look at More than Just Numbers
  
• How to Manage an Executive Exit
• How to Manage Comm for Corporate Boards
• How to Manage M&A Communications
• How to Manage New Product Releases
• How to Manage Remote Relationships With Clients
• How to Manage Senior-level Departures
  
• How to Manage Your Reputation
• How to Monitor Market Conversations
  
• How to Narrow Your Focus to Expand Results
• How Non-Profits Can Use Current Events to Advance Their Causes
• How to Penetrate New Markets
• How to Pitch Properly for Placement in Rankings
  
• How to Pitch Your Cause
• How to Place the Focus on Long-Term Potential
  
• How to Produce an Effective Annual Report
• How to Produce Successful Trade Show Exhibits
  
• How to Properly Capture Feedback
• How to Properly Disclose Financial Data
• How to Properly Pitch Your PSA
• How to Put the IT in Publicity
• How to Reward Good Performance
• How to Keep a Client After Your Contact Departs
• How to Target Baby Boomers
• How to Target Your PSA at Hispanic Audiences
• How to Target Your PSA at a Multicultural Audience
• How to Tell the B2B Product Story Properly
• How to Use a Contest or Sweepstake to Promote Your Cause
• How to Use Alternative Technologies to Get Your Message Out
• How to Use Art Properly in Your Pitch
• How to Use Audience Research to Hit Your Target
• How to Use Exclusives and Embargoes
• How to Use Narrowcasting for your VNRs
• How to Use the Newswires to Promote Life Sciences
• How Video Can Come in Handy During Crisis
  
• How to Work the Newswires to Your Advantage
• How to Work With a Group of Influencers
  
• How to Work With Bloggers