I am a prisoner of my trade. I wish I could be a normal consumer of news and information. Since news and information is what we do, it’s good to
We love to host content from public affairs officers who are getting it done every day in defense of our nation. Thanks to Pete Nguyen for drafting this PAO salt
Public Affairs Officers, let’s clean up our social media reputation. Why don’t we try to go from people who share too much, too often with too little thought to purposeful
I was TDY in New York when I met with FBI NY’s PAO. She was great. She had a real hold on her responsibilities, her organization and did a bunch
Popular journalism exists in packs. Packs of packs. Packs of writers, packs of editors, packs of flaks and packs of sources. The flaks and sources introduce facts into the pack.
The guy who led the NY Times Pentagon Papers team died this week. He was the real deal. It’s useful to consider the history, let me grossly over simplify and
Military communicators, today at 1:30 p.m. (eastern), the SecDef and Chairman will brief the press in the Pentagon. Watch live and pay attention. It’s been exactly one year since then-SecDef
Dear Journalist, I’m glad you’re a professional, because I only work with pros. Thanks for your interest in this story about what our organization does to defend our country. We’re
We’ve all heard it and many believe it: “They’re going to write it anyway, with or without our input, so we need to engage.” This isn’t true. It isn’t true
We’ve seen plenty of commanders get upset because they weren’t informed about something in a timely manner. We’ve rarely (maybe never) seen a commander get frustrated because he was too informed.