
Reuters distributes press releases in editorial feed
IN AN unconventional move that blurs the lines between journalism and public relations, Reuters is now distributing press releases of its parent company’s corporate clients in its editorial feed to Yahoo! Finance, the world’s most popular investing website.

MarkThisDate: a great tool for IR website calendars
EVENT calendars on investor relations websites are one of the most important features companies can offer – but the calendar tools available from all IR website vendors today are little changed from what they were 10 years ago.

With investor relations RSS feeds, one is better than many
I RECENTLY heard a senior investor relations officer talking about RSS feeds. He said his company was thinking about offering more feeds for different types of content. This isn’t unusual. Many companies offer a variety of feeds for different types of IR website content. Thomson Reuters’ IR websites typically offer 3 different feeds –- one [...]

My real-time personal newswire
THERE was a time when being able to quickly send information to be published at multiple places on the Internet was difficult and expensive. Big PR newswires, for instance, charged hefty fees for the ability to have your press releases and other information distributed to multiple points where investors could receive them. But just as [...]