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A Little Goes a Long Way for Big Pharma

DKC Internal Memo Demands Better Media Hits… Or Else

Komen for the Cure VP Karen Handel Resigns

Spain’s Olympic Logo Getting the Thumbs Down

Target Makes Changes with Jason Wu Collection, But We Still Couldn’t Get Anything

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New York: Beyoncé and Jay-Z Already Trademarking ‘Blue Ivy’

Gawker: PR Dummies: At Least Let Your Pets Love You, You Horrible Lonely Loser

TVNewser: Big Media Executives Take to FCC to Fight Political Advertising Disclosures

The Guardian: Don’t break stories on Twitter, BBC journalists told

The Daily Beast: Blogger Flees Twitter Fatwa

GigaOm: Why we are buying paidContent

WSJ Deals Blog: A Goodbye Memo to Goldman Sachs Public Relations Head

The Hollywood Reporter: M.I.A.’s Super Bowl Flip-off Has NBC, NFL Pointing Fingers

FishbowlNY: Mikki Taylor’s Advice for Magazine Editors: ‘Take the Leap Forward’

Politico: Mitt Romney’s message from GOP: Step it up

ZDNet: PR people are links-ago-go promoting their own stuff but not in work for clients

New York Daily News:  After Wes Welker’s Super Bowl drop against NY Giants, company drops 900 pounds of Butterfinger bars in Boston

AllTwitter:  7 Ways to Totally Destroy Your Reputation on Twitter

TVNewser:  Cable News Now Top Source for Americans Searching for Political News

NYT Media Decoder:  Magazine Newsstand Sales Suffered Sharp Falloff in Second Half of 2011

The Guardian:  Media interest in celebrities’ lives is legitimate, European court rules

BBC News:  Vatican holds summit to tackle sex abuse by priests

Adweek:  Neil Cavuto Wants Your Business

Columbia Journalism Review:  Elizabeth Spiers and the Reinvented New York Observer

ZDNet:  How do universities use social media successfully?

New York Times:  Significant and Silly at BuzzFeed

American Thinker:  The Fatal Backward Step: Penn State’s Public Relations Catastrophe

Denver Egotist:  Porn is Moving

Talking Biz News:  CNBC to use social technology to develop editorial content

BusinessInsider:  Superbowl Marketing Failures

Pinterest Expanding Its Audience Beyond Women

Megaupload Mega Shutdown Proves We Need Neither SOPA or PIPA

‘African Americans for Obama’ Launches

Will the New VW Spot Top ‘The Force’?

Poor Working Conditions Putting Apple’s Reputation on the Line

Reuters MediaFile:  Introducing Reuters Social Pulse

Jezebel:  Susan G. Komen’s Public Relations Nightmare

BusinessInsider:  Facebook’s IPO and the Future of Online Marketing

Wall Street Journal:  The Man Behind Facebook’s Marketing

Masthead:  Editors discuss new social media tools and how they boost brands

New York Times:  Blogging Site Tumblr Makes Itself the News

Reuters:  Zuckerberg’s letter to investors

JoeCiarallo:  Zuckerberg on “The Hacker Way”

Hollywood Reporter:  ‘Live With Kelly’ Ratings Drop 10 Percent

MediaShift:  Romenesko Gets His Mojo Back After Leaving Poynter

gigaom:  Study: Pinterest drives more referral traffic than Google+, nearly on par with Twitter

Press release:  New York PRSA Announces 2012 Big Apple Awards Call for Entries

Los Angeles Times:  Komen breast cancer charity severs ties with Planned Parenthood

NYMag Daily Intel:  Three of Romney’s Most Devastating Florida Ads, and Why They Worked

New York Daily News:  Stephen Colbert raised $1.02 million in Super PAC