June Letter from the President

                June 7, 2016 Dear IABC/SC Members, Some like Spring and Fall. Others like Winter. Here in famously-hot Columbia, I have a hard time finding anyone who likes Summer. For me, it’s baseball season — the...

Talk Down to Me by Jeanne Reynolds

Talk Down to Me By Jeanne Reynolds A virus is stalking the land — one we as communicators need to be especially on guard against. No, I’m not talking about Zika. I’m talking about Uptalk. You know: that annoying habit of ending statements with an upward inflection so...

Transparency in Government by Ellen Priest

Transparency in Government by Ellen Priest Transparency in government: it’s something we in the media fight on a daily basis. Filing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests is an almost daily occurrence. Some agencies willingly share information and others keep an...

May Letter from the President

Letter from the president: May 2nd, 2016 Dear IABC/SC Members, I know it wasn’t my idea, but I can’t remember who deserves credit. A couple of years ago, I tried to stop asking “what should we do” and instead ask “what could we do.”...

April Letter from the President

April 1st, 2016 Dear IABC/SC Members, Because this letter is going out on April Fools’ Day, I was tempted to use it as a prank. But, then I got to thinking about the idiom “a fool’s errand.”  Merriam-Webster defines it as a task that is “needless or profitless.” That...