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How to Write a Crisis Press Release (Examples and Templates)

Prowly

Crisis communication can make or break a brand’s reputation, whether it’s a product recall, a data breach, a natural disaster, or a public relations nightmare. What is a crisis press release? This is where the power of a strong press release comes into play.

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Why My College Crash Course in Crisis Communications Will Never End

PRSay

My most important crisis communications test didn’t come through my PR work with PayPal, Snowflake or Tetris. Standing up for your beliefs and creating your professional image are not mutually exclusive — think of it as your unique brand that makes you an even stronger PR professional. Photo of the author above right.

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Making The Case for Excluding Jargon From Crisis Communication

Melissa Agnes

” When I talk, train and write about crisis communications, I always say that your audiences want (and expect) to communicate with the people behind the brand, not with your logo. As today requires you to focus on humanizing your brand, jargon can be your downfall. Assign someone the task.

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6 Social Media “Musts” for Crisis Communication

Cision

The airline continued to communicate via social media throughout the ordeal and was universally lauded for its social media response to this crisis. Social media adds an overwhelming complexity to crisis communication. What I want to do in this post is to examine how to best use social media for crisis communication.

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3 Lessons From the A-Team in Crisis Communication Planning

Cision

They can be relied upon to carry out their duties, which leads to the first point about crisis communication planning: 1. Identify communication crisis responders. He can poke humor at the brand without sacrificing the brand or its reputation. A crisis communication vulnerability audit does the same thing.

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The 22 Responsibilities of PR and What They Entail

Onclusive

Owned Media & Content Strategy Owned media consists of publishing content on brand-owned channels such as a customer-facing blog, email campaign, or social media outreach. PR pros will need to either write content themselves or help to drive strategy with a team of writers, editors and guest blog contributors.

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4 Creative PR Ideas for Crisis Communications

Sword and the Script

It may seem counterintuitive, but the ingenuity of deftly navigating the most difficult of binds goes to show PR is often as much about problem solving as it is communication. Corporate crisis communications provides a demonstration because there are very clear constraints: Unknown unknowns – the effort to understand what is happening.