Tag Archives: Media

Life, Death and Radio

Posted on August 27, 2019 by Will Moss

  News today that longtime San Francisco music station KFOG is no more. It’s going to drop music and switch to simulcasting sports-talk from KNBR. Gen-X Bay Area natives, like me, may remember KFOG as one of the seminal music … Continue reading →

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Adventures in audio tape

Posted on May 11, 2018 by Will Moss

Yesterday Bloomberg ran what was essentially a PR piece for Ballfinger, a German maker of rarefied audio equipment, including reel-to-reel stereo tape decks that start at $11,000. The thesis: reel to reel is making a comeback. This is of course a bullshit … Continue reading →

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Godzilla vs. the SARFT Monster

Posted on July 5, 2012 by Will Moss

I’ve been watching a lot of Godzilla movies recently. This isn’t some kind of weird Cable TV accident, like stumbling onto “Barbarella, Queen of the Galaxy” at 2AM when you have a microwave burrito in one hand and a vodka … Continue reading →

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Good News! The Press is Out to Get You

Posted on May 11, 2012 by Will Moss

A couple of weeks ago I gave a talk about PR in China to a journalism class at Beijing Foreign Studies University. In any student talk the Q&A is always the most fun, and this group was no exception. Among … Continue reading →

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What I learned from Dashan

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Will Moss

I don’t have much time for social Q&A site Quora, I confess. It seems to combine the narcissism of blogging (I should know!) with the politics of Wikipedia editing in all sorts of odd ways. I signed up early, lurked … Continue reading →

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Four lessons from the Burson-Facebook fiasco

Posted on May 31, 2011 by Will Moss

I’m ridiculously late to this, as usual, but people keep asking me about the Burson-Facebook thing because of my years at Burson, so I thought I’d post the gist of the response I’ve been giving. If you’re not familiar with … Continue reading →

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Alibaba’s Alizila is PR. Be proud!

Posted on September 11, 2010 by Will Moss

I just read a post from Forbes’ Hana Alberts on Alizila, a homegrown company news site for the Alibaba Group. Alibaba has hired an experienced journalist, Time Magazine veteran Jim Erickson, to develop the articles for the site: Erickson isn’t “selling out” … Continue reading →

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Unsolicited advice for Xinhua’s new CNC TV news outfit

Posted on May 1, 2010 by Will Moss

To listen to people moan about the fact that China has sixty “Confucius Centers” in the US to America’s zilch-nada in China you’d think the Chinese were wrapping up hearts and minds around the planet while America gets relegated to … Continue reading →

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A handy cheat sheet for interpreting the Google China story

Posted on March 30, 2010 by Will Moss

Should Google have been in China? Did they make the right move in pulling out? Will this influence the Chinese government? What does it mean for foreign businesses in China? Are they evil or not? Who knows? Not me. And … Continue reading →

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Free laptops for NPC delegates – it looked good on paper

Posted on March 6, 2010 by Will Moss

Let’s say you’re a company selling some kind of product. Let’s say your product is –let’s just pick something at random here– laptop computers. Globally, this is a heavily commoditized category jammed with companies selling look-alike products with similar feature … Continue reading →

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