PRWeek is having an "Open House" on its website next week.

PRWeek has spoken many times about Apple's unique approach to PR and the tech monolith was on top form again yesterday as it stole the thunder of several rivals who launched "iPad-busting" tablet computers at the IFA show in Germany today.

The statutory five-year review of the US Army's $1.35 billion marketing and advertising program is no doubt keeping many agency networks busy in the so-called "slow" summer season.

One of my mantras is that there has never been a more exciting time to be working in media, while at the same time there has never been a more frightening time for our profession.

It is financial results season and the major marketing services holding companies have been reporting their numbers for the second quarter of 2010.

I've been in Boston this week meeting PR agencies and service companies in the Massachusetts area. It's great to escape from the New York bubble and speak to people operating in different regional and discipline-specific markets.

Arizona has rightly come under increasing pressure for its ill-thought-out stop-and-search legislation on immigration.

So-called "traditional" media is going through fundamental changes as it deals with changing consumption habits and the proliferation of social media and free content.

This week's publishing of a fake press release in the US and UK about General Mills by PR Newswire raises fundamental questions about the procedures and checks carried out by information distribution services before they send out items on their networks.