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The joy of pain – VW, schadenfreude and public relations

PR Conversations

A global crisis situation – such as that experienced by VW currently – brings out an ugly side of public relations. But I can only imagine what it is like to be working right now in the VW press office or public relations department. A hubristic sadism, or malignant narcissism.

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Borrowing Trust: The Surprising New Marketing Role of Citizen Influencers

Cision

Aligning with a celebrity can also be risky if a personal life turned scandalous and dominates the news and public opinion. Crisis management: Having relationships with industry authorities can help shut down a problem in a crisis but you need to have an established and ongoing relationship before you can call on them to help.

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Managing an Online Reputation – A practical book for dealing with a social media crisis

Norton's Notes

I read it over the Christmas holidays whilst watching far too many movies and drinking too much beer, it is one of the first books that has been outreached to me, that genuinely interested me, as I felt the outreach was well targeted because I love online crisis management and cover it quite a lot here on the blog.

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#19: Building a framework for reputation management

NewsWhip

Deploying crisis management teams | Jump to text. So before the dashboard, it was a little hard for us to kind of understand where that convergence happens between, what is the media interested in over time, and what’s the public interested over time? It starts with public interest and then carries over to media interest.

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Maximising resilience of health and well-being assets in crisis situations

PR Conversations

The following is the result of our subsequent shared musings concerning the impact of crisis situations on the health and well-being of public relations practitioners. The first picks up on your mention of resilience and also the importance of integrating support mechanisms within crisis planning.

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To Serve the Public Good, PR Pros Can Help Stop Spread of Vaccine Disinformation

PRSay

Particularly now, as misconceptions, inaccuracies and untruths threaten to prolong the coronavirus pandemic, we need to tap into our profession’s roots in behavioral science and fulfill our profession’s ethical obligation to serve the public good by helping consumers of news and information make better decisions, online and off.

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