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How to Issue a Refund: Lessons from John Stankey of AT&T
His letter needed an editor, but the $5 credit changed the narrative after a big outage.
A Camel’s Genitalia and Other Writing Lessons from Calvin Trillin
7 tips collected from the insights into journalism by the longtime staff writer for The New Yorke.
How to Lift the Public’s Record Low Opinion of Executives’ Ethics
American opinion of the ethics of business executives is at its lowest level since the Great Recession, a challenge to communicators’ efforts to burnish corporate reputations. Just 12% of people have a high or very high view of business execs’ ethics, according to a Gallup survey released last month. That’s the lowest since the polling…
What Big Law Firms Should Do About Their Intranets
Internal sites are often neglected but can be a key to building connections.