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Using Social Amidst a Crisis: Q&A With Scott Peacock & K.C. Brown

Cision

Social media can quickly turn local events into breaking national news which means every season is crisis season. They turned to their crisis communication plan and Cision Global Insights At the recent “ Prepare for Crises Lurking Beneath Your Brand ,” Scott Peacock and Cision’s K.C. During the webinar, Scott and K.C.

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PR Has Evolved Since First ‘Public Relations Handbook’ in 1967, but Some Values Are Timeless

PRSay

About 2,200 local print newspapers have closed since 2005, cutting the number of newspaper journalists by more than half between 2008 and 2020. Rereading our original chapter on crisis communications underscores the changes that have taken place in corporate America and public relations since then. million in 1974 to 24.3

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Carbon bandwagon

Stephen Waddington

Public relations must take responsibility for its role in the climate crisis. The public relations industry is falling over itself to help businesses get to grips with the climate crisis. The climate crisis is in plain view. Agency initiatives and new roles appear daily in industry publications. This is the carbon bandwagon.

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Why Now Is the Time to Eliminate Jargon and Buzzwords

PRSay

As employees look for answers during the COVID-19 crisis, they need simple, straightforward language. In their 2005 book, “Why Business People Speak Like Idiots,” authors Brian Fugere, Chelsea Hardaway and Jon Warshawsky wrote that employees perceive jargon, hype and buzzwords as packaged and inauthentic.

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World Communicators Want Your Questions

Landis PR

A member since 2005, Landis has the benefit and delight to be working with our partners from Japan to Germany, Chile to South Africa, Australia to Denmark, Ireland to Argentina, and everywhere in between.

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World Communicators Want Your Questions

Landis PR

A member since 2005, Landis has the benefit and delight to be working with our partners from Japan to Germany, Chile to South Africa, Australia to Denmark, Ireland to Argentina, and everywhere in between.

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Unlocking the strategic potential of internal communications

Wadds Inc.

Prof Dr Betteke ven Rule nailed it in an essay in 2005 ‘ PRofessionals are from Venus, scholars are from Mars ’. Prof Dr Shannon Bowen identified five situations where management calls on the expertise of public relations practitioners, including an organisational crisis, ethical dilemma and issues high on the media agenda.