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To Improve Crisis-Response Plans, Bring in a Red Team

PRSay

In today’s unforgiving media environment, decades’ worth of arduous work to build a strong reputation can be destroyed in less than a week. Just skim the headlines and you’ll notice everything from fraud and deadly cyberattacks to ethics violations, faulty products and tone-deaf commercials bringing down the mightiest of organizations.

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PR ethics and journalism ethics in the face of media business meltdown

Stuart Bruce

Since columnist Peter Oborne sensationally resigned from The Telegraph with a devastating public critique of what he believed to be its declining ethical and editorial standards I’ve read very little about the role and implications for PR, corporate communications and business. But two wrongs don’t make a right.

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The Value of Strategic Communications in the PRSA MBA/Business School Program

PRSay

Nearly a decade ago, the PRSA Foundation sponsored research that found only 23 percent of graduate business schools consistently provide instruction in reputation management, corporate communications and related ethical dimensions. That’s a huge shift in the way we think about communications.”.

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The OpenAI Saga – Or How to Create Your Own Crisis   

The Hoffman Agency

The events of the last few weeks demonstrate how critical communications planning is to safeguard your reputation and win in the court of public opinion. It is remarkable that a company with so much riding on it could have overlooked the fundamentals of communications and crisis planning.

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Misinformation 2.0: Deepfakes are the biggest threat to media today

PR in High Definition

For journalists, publishing a breaking story based on a video that is later proved false can damage their reputation, erode the trust of readers in the newspaper or magazine they write for, and even lead to libel lawsuits. Then, of course, there’s the crisis communications element.

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11 Steps For Crisis Management

Prohibition

This is where crisis management comes in. Crisis management is the reaction to an unexpected event that could have long lasting consequences on the organisation’s finances or reputation. Crisis management is not preventing a crisis, but rather managing an existing crisis. What is Crisis Management?

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PRoust Questionnaire: Sean Kelly

PR Conversations

I enjoy the adrenaline rush of crisis communications. Sincerity, loyalty, sound judgment, trustworthiness and a commitment to the values and ethical foundations of the PR profession—which just happen to be expressed in the CPRS Code of Professional Standards —are the qualities I most admire. Why do you work in PR?

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