MOSCOW, RUSSIA – The brainchild of an American ex-pat, living in Moscow, STAGE RUSSIA HD is bringing the best of classic and contemporary Russian theater to cinemas in cities across the U.S., beginning with the Vakhtangov Theatre’s sumptuous production of Alexander Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin, and followed by the Moscow Art Theatre’s vision of Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard.
2016 Data from Annual Kids Count Survey Shows Need to Stand Up For Students Greater Than Ever
Maine drops 5 places from last year to 17th in the overall rankings, 15th in education rankings
AUGUSTA, ME – Stand Up for Students, the campaign working to bring tax fairness and equal educational opportunity to all Maine students is urging Mainers to look at the latest figures for Maine in the annual Kids Count Data Book, released by the Annie E. Casey Foundation.
Stand Up For Students Announces New PR Firm
Public relations for the Stand Up for Students campaign, a citizen initiative to increase public school funding by creating a 3 percent surtax on income above $200,000, has been taken over by the Knight Canney Group, the campaign announced Monday. The hiring of the PR firm, whose past clients include Angus King and Eliot Cutler, is a signal that the funding question on this November’s general election ballot will be the subject of an intense campaign.
The Future Is Software – This Week, Anyway
By Felicia Knight
This week Microsoft and Apple made it clear that software is the new hardware. For the time being.
Microsoft is buying the business-oriented social network LinkedIn for $26.2 billion in cash, and Apple is pivoting away from its slow-selling laptops, tablets, and smartphones to focus on improving its software.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella called the purchase of LinkedIn key to the company’s corporate image building – a way to reinvent productivity and business processes. “How people find jobs, build skills, sell, market, and get work done and ultimately find success requires a connected professional world.”
When a Good War Story Goes Bad
By Felicia Knight
The recent revelation in the New York Times that author James Bradley is now convinced that his father is not in the iconic Joe Rosenthal photo of the raising of the American flag on Iwo Jima brings to mind our many comments on the importance of good story telling in public relations. Especially the part about how it should be a true story.
The World War II photo of five marines and a Navy corpsman raising the flag on Mt. Suribachi was an instant balm on America’s wounds of war. And it has been subject to both celebration and scrutiny ever since. Joe Rosenthal was both awarded a Pulitzer Prize and accused of staging the scene. While it was—and is—a symbol of victory and patriotism, the fact is, the photo was used to illustrate a story that was a public relations boon to the U.S. war effort.