Julia Hood

My first PRWeek column was published on September 30, 2002, rife with references to Enron and WorldCom. My focus is more local now, as I think about how fortunate the PR industry is to have this group of people focused so closely on it.

In good times and bad, healthcare talent is hard to find.

Fourteen years ago, England, and Europe, was gripped by Euro '96, the UEFA European Football Championship. England advanced to the semi finals and an ultimate win seemed within reach.

Just over a year ago, The Daily Show's Jon Stewart famously tore into Jim Cramer, host of CNBC's financial hype-fest Mad Money, for what the former saw as editorial malpractice

There are certain traditions or practices in the PR industry that we take for granted. But quite often they start with one person's vision.

Senior agency defections make great PRWeek stories and are marvelous fodder for industry chatter.

As September marks the start of the new academic year, the Agency Business Report signifies the start of the new year for PR firms.

I am writing this from my in-laws' house in England, where my family and I have been watching a spewing volcano on TV and hitting the redial button to British Airways customer service.

JF terHorst, President Gerald Ford's first presidential press secretary, died on Wednesday. He might have had the shortest tenure of any press secretary ever.

The numbers are in and the agency rankings are closed for another year.