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PR Glossary: 30 Key Terms and Insights Every Professional Should Know

Newsfile

What are the Basics of Crisis Communication Planning? Crisis communication planning involves preparing for unexpected events that could harm an organization’s reputation. Effective crisis communication ensures transparency, empathy, and timely responses. What is Viral Marketing?

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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. A red team can expose reputational vulnerabilities in a company and flaws in its crisis-response plan.

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Misinformation 2.0: Deepfakes are the biggest threat to media today

PR in High Definition

The phrase went viral back in May when a doctored video appeared to show US politician Nancy Pelosi drunk in a TV interview. Imagine waking up to find a doctored video of you has gone viral, you’re being showered with vile abuse and you’re almost powerless in disproving its authenticity.

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

MaccaPR

The reporter posted the mother’s story on Twitter, which went viral with over 3,000 retweets. That inspired Lochte to double-down on the false story on his Instagram acco unt and then swear to NBC-TV that “we wouldn’t make this up.” But he did, oh how he did.

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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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Your Favorite MaccaPR Blog Posts: Ellen's Oscar Selfie, Death of PR Spin and Online Content Secrets

MaccaPR

Gwen Chynoweth called upon our industry to end the use of the word in " R.I.P. For PR Spin: Ethics, Public Relations and The Imminent Death of ‘Spin’. ". #7. "Spin" connotes deception, obfuscation, misdirection and other smoke and mirrors tactics to hide the truth.