20 May 2015

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We recently had the pleasure of prepping Texas Teacher of the Year winner Shanna Peeples before she went to Washington and was awarded the National Teacher of the Year prize. After her recognition, she was invited to New York to appear on CBS This Morning.

Let us know how you think she did.

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20 Apr 2015

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It’s hard to believe it’s been 5 years since the worst disaster in the history of the Oil and Gas Industry. Here’s an update from NBC’s Kerry Sanders that shows all is not yet forgiven by people on the coast.

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02 Mar 2015

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It's hard to believe in today's day and age that a CEO would go on 60 minutes completely unprepared to do an interview, but alas on this week's 60 minutes report on Lumber Liquidators the company's CEO Rob Lynch sat down with Anderson Cooper and the result was, well, not good. Here's the clip so you can see for yourself. Not surprisingly, the company's stock was down over 20% at one po...
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02 Dec 2014

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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd5sQEI_chs Like most of the country, I was watching live when St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch read the grand jury's decision on the Michael Brown shooting. It was clear to me, that McCulloch spent a lot of time writing his statement and carefully crafting the words that went into it. For the most part, I thought the words he us...
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05 Nov 2014

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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTjqwo31MEk Often times in our Media Training we have to explain to participants how much the media today has changed from in years past. One example of this is the lack of knowledge the media now has on many matters that should be obvious. Case in point, this CNBC anchor who has no clue which UK and EU countries use the Pound versus the Euro. Luckily ...
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16 Oct 2014

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Skype is just another example of the length major news organizations are going to in order to make sure they get the "big" story of the day on their air. This example of the Dallas nurse who calls out her employer, Texas Health, for not following proper procedures in handling Ebola patients at her hospital only typifies how Skype, phone, Facetime and other less-glitzy forms of interview...
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06 Oct 2014

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Say what you will about Piers Morgan and his politics, but the man knows how to use an analogy to effectively demonstrate a point. Just watch this clip of him being interviewed by Matt Lauer. The analogy comes about midway in when he tries to explain why his campaign for more gun control in the U.S. eventually led to him being fired by CNN. In all of our Media Trainings, we tell par...
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