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12.06.02

Hill & Knowlton
A Corporate Profile

By Corporate Watch UK
Completed June 2002

5. Further Resources

Books

‘Toxic Sludge is Good For You: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry’
Stauber J and Rampton S, 1995

‘Trust Us, We’re Experts: How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with Your Future’
Stauber J and Rampton S, 2000

‘The Power House: Robert Keith Gray and the Selling of Access and Influence in Washington’
Trento S, 1992

‘The Voice of Business: H&K and Post War Public Relations’
Miller K, 1998

‘Green Backlash: Global Subversion of the Environment Movement’
Rowell A, 1996

Websites

O’Dwyer’s PR Daily
www.odwyerpr.com; the PR industry’s leading trade journal online

Holmes Report
www.holmesreport.com; another good industry source

PR Watch
www.prwatch.org; published by the Center for Media and Democracy this is the leading source of critical coverage of the PR industry

www.wpp.com; web-site of WPP Group, H&K’s parent company.

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Footnotes
[1] Mundy A, “Is the Press Any Match for Powerhouse PR?” Columbia Journalism Review Sep/Oct 92, http://www.cjr.org/year/92/5/pr.asp, date viewed 12-6-2002
[2] Council of PR Firms Top 50 Worldwide and US and Worldwide Ranking for 2000, http://www.odwyerpr.com/pr_firm_rankings/council_top50.htm
[3] Information mostly from H&K’s web site ‘company history’ section except where refernced http://www.hillandknowlton.com/index.php?section1=company§ion2=history, date
viewed 8-5-2002
[4] Trento S, 1992, ‘The Power House: Robert Keith Gray and the Selling of Access and Influence in Washington’, pp 61-77
[5] Holmes Report, http://www.holmesreport.com/holmestemp/story.cfm?edit_id=730&type_id=3 date viewed 3-5-2002
[6] H&K web site, http://www.hillandknowlton.com/index.php?section1=company§ion2=history, date viewed 3-5-2002
[7] Rowell A, 1996, ‘Green Backlash: Global Subversion of the Environment Movement’, p 121
[8] O’Dwyers Directory of PR Firms, http://www.odwyerpr.com/pr_firms_database/prdh09b.htm, date viewed 10-5-2002