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Teaching Crisis Communication: Embracing the Research to Practice Model

Melissa Agnes

I had a chance to be on Melissa’s podcast a few weeks ago to talk about some of the trends and challenges professors who are teaching crisis communications are facing today. Teaching a crisis class is not only an exciting opportunity for any professor to have (especially this one), it can be daunting to some as well. US Airways.

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A Look At Academic Research on Crisis Communication From #AEJMC14

Melissa Agnes

Last week I had the pleasure of attending the 2014 AEJMC conference , which took place in my hometown of Montreal. I’m a practitioner so I get the opportunity to test my own and others’ theories when it comes to crisis communication. In terms of the crisis communication research.

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Team Crisis Communications

PRSay

It consists of writing releases, statistical work, servicing the media and pitching story ideas, among others. Neal Gulkis has been the Director of Communications at Homestead-Miami Speedway since 2014 which hosts NASCAR’s championship races each November. It is all-encompassing, with the job functions endless.

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NYU Twitter Chat Reveals the Bright Minds of our Future

Melissa Agnes

I recently had the opportunity to join an NYU graduate class in a Twitter chat on crisis communications. There is a ton of valuable advice in the following tweets – and it’s certainly reassuring to know that these students represent the future of PR and communications. . Lindsay Kaplan (@LKaplan_NYU) March 6, 2014.

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6 Best Practices for Identifying and Reacting to a PR Crisis

Cision

Crisis communication is an important aspect of most PR roles. In the Journal of Marketing Management, a group of British researchers write that crisis communication has “implications for brand equity and consumers’ purchase intentions.” They write: “Facebook’s IPO is a flop.”

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California State University San Marcos: a textbook case of crisis preparation

Presspage

The 2014 Wildfire. Most communicators expect to have to deal with a crisis situation at some point in their career. Yet predicting how a crisis will rear its ugly head is incredibly difficult. And we had to both act out and write down what we would do in our role.

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Behind the Headlines with Yvonne Lorie

Cision

Lorie has been with the organization since 2014 and is thrilled to lead this group of the foremost Hispanic public relations practitioners in the U.S. This is something PR practitioners know well through crisis communications but truly applies to all areas of public relations.