States have a vital stake in federal action to rescue the beleaguered program called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). Instituted by President Barack Obama in 2012 by executive order, DACA has protected from deportation nearly 800,000 young...
Written by Jeanette Jones founder of Cottrill Research Supply market intelligence (SMI) is increasingly becoming a key strategic component within procurement. The strategic use of intelligence is a way for professionals to approach the many challenges...
Politics have dominated the headlines—and prime-time news channels—in recent weeks as media outlets zeroed in on the happenings at both the Republican and Democratic National Conventions. And LexisNexis was there right amidst media. As we...
When you head home after a full day of analyzing search engine alerts, do you feel like you’ve effectively corralled potential risks or spent a frustrating day herding cats? The right tools and content sources can make all the difference—not...
Being a PR professional today means bringing news outlets and consumers closer to companies than they've ever come before. It's a social media-powered age wherein people examine the organizations they do business with. This often now means ensuring...
When the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation announced that it would cut off funding for breast cancer screens to Planned Parenthood, the backlash was swift—and came from all sides. The organization’s top public health official, Mollie...
Corruption was one of the main items on the agenda of the G20’s annual meeting, which took place in Hangzhou, China earlier this month. At the meeting of the 20 major global economies, an Anti-Corruption Action Plan for 2017/18 was agreed. New action...
In recent years, the traditional media landscape has been rapidly transforming with the rise of digital media. Could 2016 be the year media companies begin deploying new business models and improved content distribution strategies to help them get to...
The pressure is on. Every day, you’re tasked with providing business intelligence to support decision making across your organization. It’s an intimidating assignment when you consider all of the information being generated. According to a...
Monitoring media for hot topics and trends can provide inspiration for merchandising, marketing and content strategies. Take "Star Wars " for instance. The recent release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens was met with unbridled zeal by fans worldwide...
Plenty of pundits—in Ohio and across the nation—were surprised when Issue 3 to legalize marijuana went down in a crushing 64 to 36 percent defeat, particularly because poll numbers had indicated a close margin of support for legalization....
Rising concern about opaque and suspect third-party corporate ownership structures is a notable finding in the Kroll / Ethisphere 2018 Anti-Bribery and Corruption Benchmarking Report. When senior executives working in ethics, compliance or anti-corruption...
When the sun went down on 2018, a half dozen states and the District of Columbia had laws in place ensuring workers could take paid time off to deal with family illnesses or the birth of a child. When the calendar closes on 2019, several more may have...
When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June that a law passed by South Dakota had freed it from a longstanding legal precedent barring states from imposing sales taxes on internet and mail-order retailers that did not have a physical presence within their...
The economy is on a tear, with the national growth rate high and unemployment low. Eighty percent of U.S. companies have reported earnings that exceed Wall Street forecasts. City and state revenues are surging, as the Great Recession fades in the rear...
Every fall and spring, there are a myriad of conferences filled with brilliant thought leaders sharing new ideas and reminding us practitioners where our focuses should lay. After attending several fantastic sessions focusing on PR, Marketing and Communications...
We’re celebrating our valued customers. While we can’t break out the cake and ice cream typical of a celebration, we want to express our thanks for your on-going support. We’re kicking off the festivities with a ‘thank you’...
In a globalized business environment characterized by increasingly complex supply chains, companies need to monitor a wide range of sources to detect warning signs of supplier risk before they cause legal, financial or reputational damage. This article...
Vive la France! The last game is in the record books, and as the New York Times wrote, “France was the best team in the field this summer in Russia, a potent mix of greatness, grit and good fortune.” While ‘good fortune’ is never...
“Americans are embracing philanthropy at a higher level than ever before,” said Giving USA Foundation Chair W. Keith Curtis in a statement accompanying the release of the Giving USA 2016: The Annual Report on Philanthropy for the Year 2015...
In an already confusing landscape of post-truth and fake news, President Trump's administration recently added to the quagmire by using the phrase 'Alternative Facts'. With the public becoming more skeptical by the minute, reputation has never...
Remember when the only fake news you encountered during the week was in the check-out line at the grocery store? You’d catch a glimpse of a headline—“Cab Driver Describes Night of Terror During Alien Abduction”—and laughingly...
Knowledge management expert Karl M. Wiig once said that “Knowledge is the fundamental factor—the major enabler—of enterprise performance.” Talk about pressure. But recognizing the important role that an information professional...
When Joanne Peterson and a friend were involved in a car accident in 2014 that sent them to the emergency room, she was shocked when a doctor tried to prescribe them the pain medication oxycodone. Sold under a variety of brand names, oxycodone is an opioid...
Following a debate performance in which Bernie Sanders was declared the winner by those covering the final democratic debate before the Iowa caucuses, CNN offered its ‘mea culpa” for being one of the many major media outlets that have failed...