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UO’s new Chief PR Flack Carol Keese to replace “Around the 0”

By UO Matters on 07/26/2024

Around the O is the official UO blog created in 2013 by Journalism Dean Tim Gleason on orders from Interim President Bob Berdahl in an attempt to replace UO Matters as the most popular source of news about UO. To boost readership they spammed everyone every few days, and when that didn’t work they tried gimmicks like free iPads to readers. Now Carol Reese, UO’s latest Chief PR Flack Vice President for Communications & Chief Marketing Officer, has decided that Around the O needs a redo, presumably to justify a bigger budget. Link to survey below.

My own thought is that it’s more than a little unseemly  for a university that is ostensibly devoted to the search for truth to spend tuition money hiring PR flacks to make the administrators look good – but I didn’t see a likert scale for that among the questions.

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3 Comments

  1. honest Uncle Bernie 07/26/2024

    My favorite was when they announced solicitations to teach Honors College courses solely on Around the O. As if it was inderstood as the source of official UO business. Instead of sending announcements to our email accounts.

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  2. Jeff Doe 08/14/2024

    At this point UONews at least better than the drivel being posted on here. UOMatters is not the same without Harbaugh, and if I were Harbaugh I’d be ashamed to be associated with what has happened to this site.

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  3. Darby 09/04/2024

    Retiree here who still uses their @uoregon.edu email. I have tried and tried and tried to unsubscribe from the spam that is Around the O, every time getting the reply that I’m unsubscribed, and never getting subscribed.

    Pretty much the definition of spam, ffs.

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