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Coke fights back against allegations of dishonest marketing

Agility PR Solutions

Did Coca Cola manipulate or mislead teens regarding the health benefits or consequences of consuming its products? According to the […]. The post Coke fights back against allegations of dishonest marketing appeared first on Agility PR Solutions.

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How Communicators Can Help Their Clients Navigate Misinformation and Biased News

PRSay

The traditional notion of “bad press” is negative coverage in a reputable journalism outlet that exposes legitimate complaints about a company — for example, coverage of a shareholder lawsuit, or a scandal about workplace conditions in a local or national newspaper. Understanding earned but unwanted media.

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How to Use Multimedia For Better PR Campaigns

Cision

As you look through an interrogative lens — analyzing brands, consumers and the media’s relationship with multimedia, it’s easy to see that visual content is the engine that steers the narrative. When you pair the 24/7 news cycle with always-on connectivity, you get consumers overwhelmed by a perpetual stream of content.

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Meet the Media: Tim Levin, Senior Reporter at InsideEVs

Bianchi Biz Blog

How long have you been in journalism and how did you get started? A summer internship at Forbes in 2016 introduced me to actual, fact-based journalism. So if an ordinary consumer can’t access why some piece of news is important, I’m going to pass. What advice do you have for PR people that want to pitch you?

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8 tips for health care organizations to foster better communication in 2016

Reputation Us

Article originally published in the Portland Business Journal on January 5, 2016. Stats, facts and guesses abound about the top health care trends in 2016. As health care consumers feel empowered and encouraged to share their feedback and voice their opinions, they build a personal connection with health care brands.

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The Media Blackout: Why PR Declines Media Interviews

Doctor Spin

What compels organisations to decline media interview requests, and what implications does this have for the future of investigative journalism ? Moreover, how do these tactics reflect on the changing nature of trust, transparency, and truth for journalism in the long-term? Source: Nature 1 Higgins, K. Nature, 540, 9–9. 4 Silfwer, J.

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6 Best Practices for Identifying and Reacting to a PR Crisis

Cision

In the Journal of Marketing Management, a group of British researchers write that crisis communication has “implications for brand equity and consumers’ purchase intentions.” Writing in a trade journal, Heather Ripley of Ripley PR says that what constitutes a crisis is oftentimes subjective. Monitoring. 4309: 84-85.

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