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Highlighting racial disparities increases coverage and effectiveness of health news

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Effective communication of health news is needed to raise awareness and encourage behavior changes in populations who experience health disparities, or inequalities in health status, according to the U.S. Department of Health ...


Health journalists utilize audience, other media to build news agenda

Medicine & Health / Other

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Approximately one-fifth of Americans follow health news very closely, according to the Pew Research Center. To identify how the demand for health stories is met, University of Missouri researchers surveyed national health ...


PR pros are good ethical thinkers, study finds

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Aug 12, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

For years journalists and others have questioned the ethics of public relations practitioners and firms. People in PR, however, appear to be getting a bad rap. That's what a new study funded by the Arthur W. Page Center ...





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UM Law professor examines the role of corporate lawyers in the court of public opinion

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In today's world, legal issues and controversies are not only tried in the court of law, but also in the "court" of public opinion. However, corporate lawyers tend to separate legal activities from public relations strategies. ...


Post-Racial? NC State Expert Weighs In On the Current State of Race Relations

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Many pundits professed the dawn of a “post-racial” era following the election of Barack Obama as the first African-American president.


Governors with greater institutional and personal powers more active in foreign relations

Other Sciences / Other

created Jun 24, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Governors are becoming more active in American foreign policy activity because of the blurred lines of what is domestic and foreign policy and the global economy. A new study in Foreign Policy Analysis reveals that govern ...


Weak social ties at workplace increase risk of burn-out

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 09, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Long-term leaves of absence tied to stress-related diagnoses are often preceded by a long period without any secure and comforting social relations. This is shown in a recently published study in public health science at ...


Briefs: Google names new public-affairs VP

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created Oct 31, 2005 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Google said Monday a Council on Foreign Relations fellow will be its vice president of global communications and public affairs.


Saving face with a baby-face? Shape of CEO's face affects public perception

Other Sciences / Other

created May 30, 2008 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

When a corporation has a public relations crisis, the news media splash photos of the company's CEO around the world. According to new research in the Journal of Consumer Research the shape of the CEO's face evokes judgments ...


Framing technique can be used as a public relations strategy in cases of sexual assault

Other Sciences / Other

created Aug 27, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 4

In Spring 2006, when three White Duke University lacrosse players were charged with raping a Black female student from nearby North Carolina Central University, Duke University officials framed the crisis in terms of institutional ...


New research analyzes the corporate attorney-client privilege

Other Sciences / Economics

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Due to the evolutionary legal landscape, corporate lawyers now find themselves relying on information and guidance from non-legal advisors like accountants, investment bankers, and public relations professionals. This aids ...


Was the public health response to swine flu alarmist?

Medicine & Health / Other

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The public health measures taken in response to swine flu may be seen as alarmist, overly restrictive, or even unjustified, says a US expert in a paper published on BMJ.com today.


UK Research Funding to Reward Economic Benefits

Other Sciences / Other

created Sep 25, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The UK government is developing a new scheme, the Research Excellence Framework (REF), to assess university research proposals and allocate public funds for research. The scheme is being developed in collaboration ...



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