Best Practices
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Media RelationsShould a Brand Enter a High-Traffic News Cycle?During high-traffic news cycles—including social and political global events—many brands may feel obligated to join the thread and contribute to the trending story, feeling mounting pressure for their corporate teams to comment on headlining news. 
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Crisis ManagementCrisis of Communication: The Secret Service’s Leadership FailureKimberly Cheatle’s, now-former director of the Secret Service, swift downfall highlights the critical communication skills leaders must master during crises. 
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Branding/MarketingTop Tips: PR Advice for Overnight SensationsFor this edition of Top Tips, we asked communicators for their advice for people who become public figures in an instant, such as Steve Nedoroscik, now of Olympic pommel horse fame. 
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Crisis Management[VIDEO] PRNEWS Live Discusses How to Combat Narrative Attacks Created by DisinformationThis chat with Blackbird.AI aims to equip businesses with the tools and strategies needed to protect their brand from the harmful effects of narrative attacks. 
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Crisis ManagementPR Roundup: Trump and NABJ Outrage, New Boeing CEO, Ice Bucket Challenge LivesIn this week’s PR Roundup we examine the results of former President Trump’s interview at the National Association for Black Journalists, if Boeing’s new CEO will make a difference and the re-emergence of the Ice Bucket Challenge. 
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Media RelationsLessons From the Political Campaign Trail for All PR ProsMost PR practitioners will never work on political campaigns, but they can still extract valuable lessons from following political happenings to be used in corporate, brand and PR crises beyond the political realm. 
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Media RelationsThe How and Why of Pitching a Story to LinkedIn NewsThere’s another major LinkedIn benefit that communications professionals are starting to catch onto, and that’s the power of having company news covered, shared and amplified by LinkedIn News. 
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Branding/MarketingLearning about Olympic Sports Sponsorship from Flavor Flav and USA Water PoloThere is only one Flavor Flav, but his activation with USA Water Polo provides a few key lessons for any company looking to grow its brand through meaningful sports sponsorships, including leaning into the pillars of authenticity and commitment with a hype mindset. 
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Branding/MarketingWhat PR Pros Can Learn from Influencer Nara Smith and Marc Jacobs Collab BacklashThe campaign is facing some backlash from users for allegedly imitating another creator, Mary Korlin-Downs, who previously made a similar video baking the same bag from scratch through a trade partnership with the Marc Jacobs brand. 
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Crisis ManagementCrowdStrike Outage Shows Ripple Effects of Adjacent Crisis and the Value of ReadinessMuch has been reported about the good work of CrowdStrike in responding to its crisis. While the impacts were widespread and brought global implications, company leaders did a strong job getting out to communicate early and often. But what about the adjacent companies impacted BY the outage? They were the collateral damage. Unwittingly dragged into […] 
 
	 
	 
	 
	 
	 
	 
	 
	 
	