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Your Business Is In The Bullseye: Get Ready To Communicate

This week, I’m looking forward to catching up with contacts in person and comparing notes about business, which is one of the benefits of attending the Mackinac Policy Conference. I’ll be asked in conversation about trends and expect to talk about what’s happening as businesses try to withstand the front lines of the culture wars. … Continued

Goodbye, Print News. I Held On As Long As I Could

For the first time in my life, I no longer have a local newspaper delivered to my home. I know. What took so long? This has been a gradual weaning. In recent years, it has just been a Sunday experience. But this was the way I was raised (by readers who were raised the same … Continued

In 25 Years, The “Fax” On How PR Has Changed

25 years ago this week, The Unabomber, Monica Lewinsky and Whitewater were all in the news and for the first time in my adult life, I had started getting paid for something other than producing, writing or reporting the news. It was my first week in PR and, although I wasn’t exactly sure what I … Continued

TANNER FRIEDMAN HONORED WITH 2023 INTERNATIONAL HERMES CREATIVE AWARD FOR WORK WITH SAMARITAS AND THE LAUNCH OF THE DETROIT REFUGEE NETWORK

Farmington Hills, Mich. (April 27, 2023) – The Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals (AMCP) has awarded Tanner Friedman Strategic Communications a Platinum International Hermes Creative Award for its strategic publicity campaign around the launch of the Detroit Refugee Network (DRN), a coalition of corporate, civic and community leaders to welcome and provide support services to … Continued

TANNER FRIEDMAN AND JAG IN DETROIT PODCASTS HONORED WITH 2023 INTERNATIONAL HERMES CREATIVE AWARD FOR WORK WITH MIU MEN’S HEALTH FOUNDATION

Farmington Hills, Mich. (April 19, 2023) – The Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals (AMCP) has awarded Tanner Friedman Strategic Communications a Platinum International Hermes Creative Award for the creation, writing and production of a podcast for the MIU Men’s Health Foundation, in partnership with JAG In Detroit Podcasts. The award-winning podcast, “On Call for Men’s Health,” helps the … Continued

How The Fox News Lawsuit Matters To PR

Just about everyone in the media business is about to spend their work weeks with at least half an eye on the happenings inside a Delaware courtroom as the gargantuan defamation lawsuit filed by Dominon Voting Systems against Fox News goes to trial. But those inside the PR business and those who are any part … Continued