Archive for February 2014
Quid pro quo: Earned media = priceless. For everything else, there’s MasterCard
Quid pro quo seemed to be alive and well at last night’s Brit Awards, featuring One Direction and Ellie Goulding — at least if the PR agency handling media for sponsor MasterCard had had their way.
PressGazette reports that a reporter asking for access to the event received this email: Read the rest of this entry »
Happy Valentine’s Day from Embargo Watch
Courtesy Ben Kling, via Demilked.com and Denise Graveline
Another embargo break for PNAS, for a climate change paper
PNAS has had a rash of embargo breaks recently.
The journal’s press office sent this email to its media list a few minutes before 11 a.m. Eastern yesterday, about four hours before the journal’s scheduled embargo time: Read the rest of this entry »
NIH angers reporters it held at the embargo gate after WSJ scored a scoop
Science biology deputy news editor John Travis was not happy Tuesday morning, February 4:
He wasn’t the only reporter angry at the NIH. Two Nature journalists retweeted him.
Here’s what happened: By February 3, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) had a bead on a partnership between the NIH and a group of drug companies to further research, and was ready to publish a story about it. But at 9:54 p.m. on February 3, the NIH sent this email to its press list: Read the rest of this entry »
AP breaks abortion data embargo
Yesterday, following a break by the Associated Press (AP), the Guttmacher Institute press office lifted the embargo early on a study showing that abortion rates had fallen to 1970s levels.
From a message sent by the Guttmacher Institute at 4:40 p.m. Eastern, more than seven hours before the scheduled embargo lift at 12:01 a.m.: Read the rest of this entry »