Entries tagged with “News”.


News headlines for June 18, 2010 from The Daily Dog and Incentive Weekly.  (Updated throughout the day.)

(From The Daily Dog)

For the First Time in Nearly a Quarter Century, American Automakers Best Import Brands in JD Powers Report on Initial Quality

(From Incentive Weekly)

How to Improve Consumer Packaged Goods Loyalty
MGM Mirage Changes Name, Relaunches Loyalty Program
Top 10 Ways to Recognize in Crisis and Recession

News headlines for June 4, 2010 from The Daily Dog and mediabistro.com. (Updated throughout the day.)

(from The Daily Dog)
Apple Expected to Announce Next-Gen iPhone Today …
As Clean-Up Costs Mount, BP Assures Public It is a “Responsible Company” …
Goldman Staffers Want Firm to Create a Consumer-Focused Retail Bank …

(from mediabistro.com)
New York Times
Won’t Sue Wall Street Journal After All
(NY Observer)
Vivek Shah Buys Ziff Davis Media (Folio:)
Changing The Course At Newsweek (NYT)
Bernie Madoff: Pleasantries From Prison (Village Voice / Runnin’ Scared)
The End Of ‘The World’, As Its Journalists Know It, Is Nigh (The Independent)
Yahoo And HuffPo Talk Collaboration (TechCrunch)
Top Five 1st Qtr. Group Pubs: Time Inc. Is ‘In Style’ (minOnline)
Other Voices: What Exactly Is a Blog? (NYT)
The Future Of News: Not So Bleak, Not So Rosy (PBS / MediaShift Idea Lab)
Nielsen Owners Seek $1.75B In IPO (Folio:)
It’s Easy Being Green: Introducing Country Living‘s House Of The Year (FishbowlNY)
Catherine Mathis Writes a Letter To The Times (NY Observer)
The Impact Of Ads (Monday Note)
Ten Questions With @BPGlobalPR (AdAge)
British Newspaper Times & Citizen Has Given Up on Writing Headlines Entirely (Gawker)

News headlines for June 2, 2010 from mediabistro.com, The Daily Dog, Incentive Magazine and Marketing Experiments.  (Updated throughout the day.)

(from mediabistro.com)
How The Mainstream Media Stole Our News Story Without Credit(Daggle)
Newsweek‘s Tumblr Responds To David Carr’s Sunday Times Piece (Newsweek Tumblr)
More On M.I.A., The Times And Truffle-Gate (NY Observer)
BPA Board Votes Down Controversial Reporting Changes (Folio:)
Aggregators, Curators, And Indexers: There’s A Difference, And It Matters (Nieman Journalism Lab)
Handicapping The Newsweek Mag Sweepstakes
(NY Post / Media Ink)

ALM’s The Recorder Goes to Weekly Print, 24/7 Digital (minOnline)
Hyperlocal Network Mainstreet Connect Raises $3.97 Million First Round (paidContent)
Active Interest Media Acquires Skram Media (Folio:)
Departures Taps Steve DeLuca As Publisher (Mediaweek)
Christine Guilfoyle Named Publisher Of More (FishbowlNY)
Under Lorin Stein, The Paris Review Takes To The Blogs (NY Observer)
Vanity Fair Presents Awful View Of Sally Quinn (NY Post / Page Six)
CNN.com Inadvertently Reveals Al Gore’s Email Address (WebNewser)
Rush & Molloy: An Oral History (Gawker)

(from Bulldog Reporter’s Daily Dog)
Oil-Spill Criminal Investigation Launched…
Anti-Tobacco Marketers Take a Different Approach to Dissuade People from Smoking — By Targeting Their Insecurities …
White House Launches Into Aggressive PR Mode as Oil Spigot Remains at Full Blast …
Free-Speech Component of Critical Web Comments Challenged as Businesses Start Retaliating to Criticisms With Lawsuits …
Enterprise Support Mounting for the iPad: New IT Survey Suggests Four Out of Five Businesses Plan to Buy One for Their Company …
Media Claim They are Being Stiff-Armed for Reporting on Oil Spill …
Carmichael Lynch Spong Wins Most Big Apple Awards of Any Firm
Garanimals Maker Retains CooperKatz
ABI Celebrates 30 Years
Arthur W. Page Society Names Julia Hood President

(from Incentive Magazine)
Incential Adds Non-Cash Awards to Sales Management Software
Black & Decker Jigsaw With Smart-Select Dial
PPEF Announces College Scholarships Honoring Industry Icons
Column: How to Make an Incentive Meaningful – by Bob Nelson
Column: Dealing with a Dispersed Workforce – by Cindy Ventrice

(from MarketingExperiments)
Facebook Case Study: From 517 to 33,000 fans in two weeks (plus media coverage)
Evidence-based Marketing: Why you need more than just numbers to truly drive ROI
Online Marketing Optimization Technology: We have ways of making technology talk, Mr. Bond

Blame Tina Fey if you want.  I do.

The SNL alum had the nerve (along with her cohorts) to call out the mainstream media and seriously question their objectivity on the Obama vs Clinton primary battle for the Democratic nomination for President.  It does seem the media has been taking it easy on Mr. Obama and the SNL folks don’t seem to like it much at all.  (View Fey’s editorial rant here.)

There’s more to review by visiting a blog set up to provide the video YouTube won’t show.  Give it a look (here) and let me know what you think. (more…)