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CEO's online video mea culpa boosts investment -- study

CEO’s online video mea culpa boosts investment — study

By Dominic Jones on August 16, 2010

A NEW study has found that when CEOs take responsibility for financial restatements and deliver the bad news via online video, investors’ trust in management rises and they recommend larger investments in the firm.

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No changes please, we're PR Newswire's Disclosure Advisory Board

By Dominic Jones on August 21, 2008

PR NEWSWIRE has trotted out its Disclosure Advisory Board (DAB) to say that they do not see companies changing their disclosure practices any time soon in response to the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) recent guidance for company websites. They have issued a statement that basically calls for companies to continue to use the [...]

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IROs, not regulators should quash rumors

By Dominic Jones on July 8, 2008

THERE is a growing chorus of calls for regulatory action in the United States against traders who spread false rumors to manipulate stock prices, but I think at least half of the problem lies with companies themselves — and poor investor relations practices in particular. In today’s New York Times, Dealbook writer Andrew Ross Sorkin [...]

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Critical comments boost web credibility

By Dominic Jones on March 30, 2008

KEVIN Oakley is chewing me out for my post about Business Wire (BW) fumbling an error on their blog. He figured out that one reason I posted that piece was to take a dig at BW because they won’t run my comments on their blog. He is right that I used the post to poke [...]

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Using the Web to rebuild trust in CEOs

By Dominic Jones on January 26, 2005

AT A RECENT roundtable discussion for Chief Executive magazine, several CEOs got together to brainstorm about how to win back the public’s faith in them. After talking about better governance, team building, customer relations and adopting good causes, these CEOs still couldn’t come up with an answer to their dilemma. To be fair, a lot [...]

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Five ways to boost your IR website’s credibility

By Dominic Jones on April 23, 2002

OF ALL the media at your disposal, your website is undoubtedly the most important. It’s a 24/7 window on your company and the most likely “place” where investors will form an opinion about your firm’s credibility. Online credibility is literally a minefield of potential pitfalls, every one of which is important. It’s an area where [...]

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