LinkedIn, the social networking site for professionals, communicated its newly minted $1 billion-plus valuation to consumers via a YouTube video.

James Buck, an American graduate student who used the Twitter micro blogging service to notify his friends on the site when he was being detained in an Egyptian Jail, is now using Twitter and other online efforts to free his translator, Mohammed Maree, who was jailed on the same day.

DALLAS: Southwest Airlines (SWA) launched a new campaign, "Fees Don't Fly," to reinforce the company's decision to provide its services without additional charges.

FORT WORTH, TX: American Airlines (AA), which recently said it will begin charging most customers $15 per checked bag, has focused its overall communications strategy on explaining to consumers the challenges the industry is facing, given increasing fuel prices.

Delta recently introduced a new onboard safety message. What were the airline's media goals regarding that new video?

FOREST HILLS, NY: JetBlue Airways is in the final stages of its search for a crisis communications agency.

FOREST HILLS, NY: JetBlue is in the final stages of a search for a crisis communications agency.

Federal regulators said this week they're working to reform the credit card industry, including a seven-point plan to cut back on deceptive practices by credit card companies.

Members of the C-suite aren't the only ones who can benefit from media training

In June 2007 PRWeek reported on The New York Islanders' plans to provide media credentials to a select number of sports bloggers. The sports' blogging community seemed to have mixed feelings about the plan at the time, and now The New York Times reports on continued tension between the sports community and bloggers.