Crisis Management
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Crisis Management
PR Roundup: Cornell’s Crisis of Trust, Why Health Credibility Isn’t Enough and How Logan Airport Went Viral
PR roundup covers what Cornell’s response to a sexual assault lawsuit, new Edelman-Yale research showing that facts alone won’t earn trust in healthcare and how Logan Airport turned an overhead announcement into one of the more viral PR campaigns of the fall.
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Crisis Management
Before You Hit Send: Making Ethics Part of the Workflow
The PRSA Code of Ethics offers a foundation for communicators for addressing ethical dilemmas long before they become a major problem.
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Crisis Management
PR Roundup: White House Press Bans Test the Limits of Media Access, DoorDash’s Rare Admission and What Holiday Shoppers Really Want From Brands
PR roundup covers the White House’s ongoing press access battles, why DoorDash’s “we screwed up” settlement statement is worth studying and what data says about how holiday shoppers are expecting more from brands on social.
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Crisis Management
PR Roundup: Arch Manning’s Vanishing Apology, the Sheeran-Macklemore-Kraft Fallout and Why Reputation Is Worth $1.2 Billion
PR roundup covers Arch Manning’s AI video moment and subsequent apology, why the Macklemore-Sheeran-Kraft dispute shows that neutrality is hard to claim and new research that finally puts a dollar figure on what a strong reputation is actually worth.
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Branding/Marketing
The Smartest Decision in Sports: How the Buffalo Bills Kept Canada in the Fold
In a break from tradition, the Buffalo Bills have asked the Toronto-based band Barenaked Ladies to perform “O Canada,” prior to the singing of “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
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Branding/Marketing
What Brands Can Learn from the U.S. Open’s Creator Controversy
What exactly are brands, such as the U.S. Open, expecting from the creators and influencers they increasingly invite into these spaces, and how should communicators navigate these opportunities?
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Branding/Marketing
PR Roundup: Anthropic Researcher Sounds an Apocalyptic Alarm, Communicators Are Burned Out, and TEMPTATIONS Nails the Bodega Cat Moment
PR roundup covers what happens when Anthropic employees publicly confirm its risks, new research showing that communicators are increasingly burned out and eyeing the door, and how TEMPTATIONS turned the beloved “bodega cat” into a textbook experiential PR campaign.
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Crisis Management
PR Roundup: MapQuest’s Unlikely Comeback, USPS Navigates a Public Information Crisis, and New Research Says Corporate Credibility Is at a Breaking Point
PR roundup covers how MapQuest won a map-naming controversy, what the USPS mail-in voting statement reveals about communicating clearly in chaos, and new research shows corporate credibility eroding fastest among the educated, affluent audiences.
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Corporate Social Responsibility
The Power of Causing a Crisis: What Meta’s Payout Can Teach About Advocacy Communications
Advocacy campaigns can often take on companies many times their size, like Meta, throwing them into crisis. Sustained-pressure communications runs on a different logic than defense.
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Crisis Management
AI Promised Efficiency. Now Communicators Have to Clean Up the Mess.
The AI correction phase is a moment for communicators, but only if the industry stops treating it like a siloed IT initiative happening somewhere else in the building.