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The first thing they taught me in my undergraduate course, Public Relations Thought and Practice, was "don't lie," and it’s best to advise your clients never to lie either. Come to think of it, that's the first thing they taught me in my journalism classes, too. Unless things have changed over the past 30 years, I'd imagine they're both teaching the same thing today, no matter whether the course...

A new channel on the Reuters.co.uk news site has been launched to cover international relief efforts and humanitarian crises. The World Crises section includes news on global health issues, conflicts and natural disasters. Current stories highlight relief efforts and recovery after the Asian tsunami, conflict in the Sudan and protests in Nepal. The section is produced by Reuters' network of...

MUMBAI, India The Hindustan Times started publishing a Mumbai edition Thursday, breaching the citadel of the rival Times of India in search of a share of the $180 million in print advertising generated annually by the commercial capital of India. It is the first serious competition in Mumbai for the 167-year-old Times of India, the largest-selling English-language daily in the country. The Times...

The United Nations has released its report into how it expects administration of the internet to work in future. The report by the Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) follows the outline given by those in charge of the process earlier this week at ICANN's tri-annual conference in Luxembourg. It provides four different models for future governance of the internet. The merits of each model...

Two down, one more to go! This is the countdown for the number of new newspapers (compact and broadsheet) that the country’s commercial capital is expected to be hit with this year. With Mumbai Mirror having already made noise with its launch, Hindustan Times, too, has seen the day of light, and now DNA is the only one left to hit the city – well the wait will only be till the end of this month...

MUMBAI, July 14: Hindustan Times made its much-awaited Mumbai debut today with a cover price of Rs 2.50. What’s more, the newspaper group from Delhi has set up another date with the financial capital of India. This time, it’s to do with HT’s maiden public issue, which will be launched by August-end. The company behind the newspaper, HT Media Ltd, had filed a draft red herring prospectus with the...

Google CEO Eric Schmidt doesn't reveal much about himself on his home page. But spending 30 minutes on the Google search engine lets one discover that Schmidt, 50, was worth an estimated $1.5 billion last year. Earlier this year, he pulled in almost $90 million from sales of Google stock and made at least another $50 million selling shares in the past two months as the stock leaped to more than...

ADWARE COMPANY CLARIA ANNOUNCED WEDNESDAY that it's developing a meta-search engine that collects results from search pages around the Web and orders them according to visitor interaction, using metrics such as click-through rates, time spent on a page, and page views. The idea, according to Claria Chief Marketing Officer Scott Eagle, is to deliver the Web results that are the most relevant, as...

Experience of many years has taught me the distinction between public relations and journalism, and that to link them is dangerous. In the 1950s, I earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from Medill at Northwestern University, the finest in the nation, then wasted that training by spending most of the next 30 years as a public relations man. For years I did publicity and promotions for...

The countdown is over. Hindustan Times has finally entered the Mumbai market. The daily has been launched at an introductory cover price of Rs 2.50 on weekdays. HT has intensified its marketing activities for the launch period, which commenced across mediums from July 13. The main paper of the launch edition has 24 pages that includes sections like HT Metro, HT Classifieds, HT Nation, HT World, HT...