Crisis Management
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Crisis Management
PR Roundup: Victoria’s Secret Outage, Bieber’s Billions, Nuclear Verdicts
This week’s PR Roundup examines the bizarre ongoing cyberattack on the Victoria’s Secret website, how nuclear verdicts are impacting the reputations of large companies and the worth of a celebrity product, Rhode, to a cosmetics company in 2025.
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Crisis Management
Your Story or Theirs: Why Narrative Risk Now Trumps Brand Risk
In 2025, most business leaders can rattle off their product risks, regulatory risks, even brand risks. But a more insidious threat lurks under it all: narrative risk—the danger that someone else tells your company’s story faster, louder or more convincingly than you do. And not always truthfully.
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Corporate Social Responsibility
News Outlets Respond to AI-Generated Summer Reading List Insert
The Chicago Sun Times and Philadelphia Inquirer did not help boost any new media trust when caught in an AI content controversy.
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Branding/Marketing
Learning About Crisis From Sports Controversies
Sports crisis communications experts, Jim Rocco and Thom Weidlich, decided to co-author the recently-released “Sports Crisis Communications: Cases and Controversy.”
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Branding/Marketing
PR Roundup: HBO Max is Back, Grok Glitches Out, CEOs Losing Trust
This week PR Roundup looks at the re-brand (or re-re-brand?) of HBO Max, Grok’s penchant for white genocide discussion and a new study revealing declining trust for CEOs.
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Crisis Management
PR Roundup: 2025 State of the Media, Higher Ed Crisis Strategy, Conclave Frenzy
This week’s PR Roundup looks at the annual Cision State of the Media Report, what we learned about higher education and crisis at the Meltwater Summit and new digital data from GIPHY on the papal internet frenzy.
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Crisis Management
Earning Trust, Adding Value: Comms’ Silver Lining Amid Tariff Chaos
It’s a precarious time for communications departments that haven’t earned the C-suite’s trust. So in-house teams and agencies alike risk cuts to their budgets unless management believes in their value.
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Crisis Management
Guiding Restaurant Clients Through Today’s External Threats
PR pros can use a straightforward approach to help restaurant brands (as well as other industries) handle today’s external threats to get the best possible outcome.
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Crisis Management
Strong Messages for Shaky Markets: Communicating Through Tariff Turmoil
Tariffs have always been a fact of business life, but the recent volatility presented by new trade policies has transformed them from a line item on a spreadsheet into a full-blown communications challenge.
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Corporate Social Responsibility
PR Roundup: Social Advocacy Advice, Small Business PR and Recycling Brainstorm Ideas
This week’s PR Roundup looks at social advocacy lessons from the Institute for Public Relations Bridge Conference, the results of a new small business public relations study, and a new tool to recycle and elevate forgotten brainstorm ideas.
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