By Craig McGuire

Profiles, Market Reports,

& Regional Roundups

• 2005 PR Agency Business Report: Right in the Middle
• An Interview With Richard Burdge: Keeping Up With Global STP at Reuters
• Arizona, PR's Smallest Large Market
• As IT Budgets Inch Up, So Do Expectations
• Bankruptcy Filing Hits Record
• Battle of Biotech Arrives on US Shores
• Biotech Foods PR Debate Heats Up
• Bond Market Bucks, But Lenders Show Little Concern
• Boston 'Beantown' Booming
• Boston on a Winning Streak
  Brave New World: Traditional Silo Approach to Fin Comm Replaced by Integrated Ops
• CEOs Taking Active Role in Annual Report Creation
• 'CNN Effect' and Other Factors Stifle Interest in Real Estate, Industry Vets Say
• Colorado Considers Two Predatory Lending Bills
• Companies Devote More Money to Publications Than Ever Before
• Conservation, Education Top Matusow Priorities
• Consumer Groups Blast HUD Over Upcoming Senate, Yield-Spread Hearing
• Crackdown on Child Labor in Queens
• Crime Escalating in Queens' High Schools
• CRM Usage Rising in Collections Units
  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
• Disagreements Over Meaning of New SEC Rule Fuel IR Controversy
• 'Dottie' Takes Manhattan: The Woman Behind the Recent Blockbuster Douglas Elliman Deal
• Economic Development, Upstate New York Looks to Lure City Folks
• Ernst & Young - Starting its New Global PR Strategy at Home
• Financial PR's New Guard: Practices at Large Agencies Have Had to Evolve
• From Subways to Streets: The Battle Over Graffiti Still Rages in New York
• GCI Study Reveals Global M&A Coverage in US is Mostly Negative
• Goodyear Treads Consumer-centric Path
• Growing Pains: Getting a Grip on Shortening the Settlement Cycle
• Gulf Coast Lenders Brace for Hurricane Lili
• Help Wanted: Lenders Staff Up at Twin Towers Job Expo
• Interest Building For One-Stop Financial Services, Tower Group Finds
• Interview With Police Commissioner Bratton: Revamp of Community Policing Underway
• Job Prospects Grim in Real Estate Sector
• Litigation PR: The Eliot Spitzer Syndrome
• Market Leaders: 10 Trailblazers in Today's Fast-paced FinCom Scene
• New Brooklyn Postmaster Named
• New Jersey, In the Shadow of Giants
• New Jersey, The Jersey Score
• New PR Plan Helps Central Park Conservancy Bloom
• NightClub Act II: Super Clubs in Effect
• PM&A Vendors Swap Euro, Y2k for STP, T+1 and More
• PR Inside the Heartland
• Profile of Automotive High School
• Rocky Mountain High
• Stream of Conference: The Boom in E-Conferencing
• The Battle of the Business Wires
• The Big Time: Barclays Global Investors' Worldwide IT Vision
• 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
• The Irish & Alcohol
• Translating Money: Globalization creates a Wealth of Financial Comms Challenges
• Vendors Bite Back: Survey of Portfolio System Vendors Takes a Little Heat
• Was Sard Verbinnen a Bargain at $150 Million?
• Weathering the Storm, PR in the Sunshine State
• Wire Services Up Overseas Muscle
• YMCA Spreads Word About Its Community Outreach