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

PRSay

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. In today’s unforgiving media environment, decades’ worth of arduous work to build a strong reputation can be destroyed in less than a week.

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A Look at Today’s Crisis Realities and How To Manage Them

Melissa Agnes

Everything has viral potential. If your crisis is news worthy, relatable and has an emotional impact, it has a good chance of going viral – quicker than you can imagine. If your crisis is news worthy, relatable and has an emotional impact, it has a good chance of going viral – quicker than you can imagine.

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A Look at Today’s Crisis Realities and How To Manage Them

Melissa Agnes

Everything has viral potential. If your crisis is news worthy, relatable and has an emotional impact, it has a good chance of going viral – quicker than you can imagine. If your crisis is news worthy, relatable and has an emotional impact, it has a good chance of going viral – quicker than you can imagine.

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7 Lessons That Ryan Lochte’s Olympic Crisis Can Teach PR Pros

MaccaPR

Along with the term “non-denial denial” – coined by editor Ben Bradlee of the Washington Post to describe the Nixon Administration’s evasive responses during Watergate – corporate communicators should be wary of issuing what can only be called a non-apology apology. Lesson #3 – Apologize – No Really, Sincerely Apologize.

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Hyundai “Message To Space” TV Spot – Marketing Masterpiece or Brilliant Illusion?

MaccaPR

“Message To Space,” created by agency Innocean Worldwide, depicts how Hyundai worked with a 13-year-old girl who appears to be Stephanie Virts of Houston, daughter of NASA astronaut Terry Virts, to send a message to her father as he circles the Earth in the International Space Station. Ethically ambiguous? asks Preston.

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Event Marketing Is Back, Baby: Two Experiential Experts Examine The ‘Fearless Girl’ Campaign

MaccaPR

The sheer timing was remarkable, with the 4-foot-high statue arriving the night before International Women’s Day – not to mention the exquisite symbolic co-opting of the "Charging Bull," which Fortune called “a testosterone-charged symbol of Wall Street bravado.”. So, is that enough ROI for an experiential campaign to satisfy your CMO?

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A critical review of Excellence Theory in an era of digital communication

Stephen Waddington

Table 1: James Grunig and Todd Hunt’s Four Models of Public Relations (1984) Excellence Theory The so-called Excellence Theory[ii] developed over the next decade as a result of a research programme commissioned by the Research Foundation of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) in 1984.