If anyone beats us to a PR Week scoop, I guess we can accept that it be Hamilton Nolan. I mean, he did used to work there. Does he take glee in reporting this item for Gawker.com?

PRWeek spends a lot of time telling publicists how to do their jobs. Embarrassing, then, that last week the magazine bombarded subscribers with unwanted emails. Bonus feature: the message included the names and passwords of other subscribers! All that time the staff spends writing features about crisis communications is coming in handy now.

For the official response from PR Week Editor-in-Chief Julia Hood, click here.