Papa John's Pizza recently found itself apologizing for the actions of one of its franchises.

Tis the season where politics and politicians are scrutinized like foreign animals newly donated to the local zoo.

After the fifth call we received this year asking about "best practices" for structuring corporate communications functions, I knew something was up.

I'm not sure which of the nine circles of hell I was in the week before ad:tech San Francisco 2008, but it's the level where PR people spam bloggers with irrelevant e-mail pitches.

I recently spent time with a Boston University (BU) PR class of 20 or so students to discuss the profession they are likely to enter.

Annual conferences, particularly those bearing the stuffy "leadership" title, don't usually make journalists gush, but gush they did over the recent Four A's conference held in Southern California

Entergy, a Fortune 500 energy company, gave its April 25 periodic analyst meeting a No Country for Old Men theme, including dialogue and imagery from the controversial, Oscar-winning film.

Why do many CCOs I meet lately express frustration that the people at their companies are viewed as tacticians, not strategists?

If I could hire any two people in the world to join my PR consultancy, who would they be?

While the pundits debate the current state of the economy and whether it fits the formal definition of a recession, we continue to see high gas prices, consumer spending is sluggish, the dollar is weak, healthcare costs are skyrocketing, and the housing crisis is affecting everyone from Bear Stearns to the average citizen.