James S. O'Rourke

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Professor of Management

Office: 234B Mendoza College of Business
Phone: 574-631-8397
Email: ORourke.2@nd.edu

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Areas of Expertise

Corporate communication, reputation management, public speaking, business writing

The Arthur F. and Mary J. O’Neil Director of Notre Dame’s Fanning Center for Business Communication, O’Rourke is the author of 17 textbooks, including “Effective Communication,” “Management Communication” and “The Truth About Confident Presenting.” He is principal author or directing editor of more than 200 case studies in management and corporate communication. A trustee of both the Arthur W. Page Society and the Institute for Public Relations, O’Rourke also is a member of the Reputation Institute and the Management Communication Association and regularly serves as a consultant to Fortune 500 and mid-size businesses throughout North America.

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News Corp. phone hacking scandal now political

Truth will serve BP better than paid ads

ND NEWSWIRE ARTICLES

Making his case

IN THE NEWS

USA Today—Prayer, housekeeping on first day for Pope Francis

BBC—US Postal Service to end Saturday letter delivery

Associated Press—Goodbye Saturday mail? Postal Service plans cuts

Los Angeles Times—For BP, restoring its image is a bigger task than paying billions

Bloomberg—U.S. Postal Service Posts Quarterly Loss of $5.2 Billion

Los Angeles Times—Many businesses seek favor among LGBT customers

CNN.com (op-ed)—Why Encyclopedia Britannica mattered

USA Today—News Corp execs don’t admit role in phone hacking

CNN Money.com—Murdoch won’t leave News Corp.

Chicago Tribune—Phone-hacking scandal could force Murdoch to let go of newspapers

Market Watch—How Murdoch can satisfy Wall Street

Los Angeles Times—Murdoch’s newspaper holdings go from Trojan horse to Achilles’ heel

Los Angeles Times—Phone-hacking scandal could force Murdoch to let go of newspapers

Wall Street Journal—Public relations learned the hard way

Christian Science Monitor—Oil spill cleanup: After digging deep to kill well, BP faces long climb

HP Consultant APCO Built Crisis Business on WorldCom Testimony, Vioxx Suit—Bloomberg

ND prof says oil spill a public relations “crisis” for BP—WNDU-TV