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Crisis Management Lessons From Boeing’s 737 Max Disasters

PRSay

Gordon Johndroe , vice president of global media relations and public affairs for the Chicago-based aircraft manufacturer, spoke to members of PRSA’s Corporate Communications Section in the Nov. Stay as close as you can to [senior managers] and get as much information as you can. We need to plan for beyond 72 hours.

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Ranger Scott Gediman on the Ferguson Fire and 22 Years as Yosemite Park’s Public Affairs Officer

PRSay

Over his 22 years as public affairs officer at Yosemite National Park , Scott Gediman has experienced a myriad of crises on the job, from floods and rock falls to hantavirus outbreaks. “It It seems like my life here is a perpetual crisis,” said Gediman, a longtime PRSA member. So I told the media, “It’s closed indefinitely.”

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Leading With Ethics During COVID-19

PRSay

There, we were offering social media messages and supporting graphics, stories for use in facility newsletters, news releases, and overall talking points for senior leaders, veterans service organizations, congressional members and others. We provided weekly training sessions to ensure that public affairs officers could hone their skills.

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Six social media and digital communications trends for 2015

PR Conversations

The reason is that we have been able to incorporate a lot of contemporary thinking around ways of learning as well as the emerging field of digital communications and social media. Securing a reputation for content leadership. How different to the always-on, report-it-now journalistic method of today.

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

PR Conversations

It may be that practitioners highlight the issue during planning discussions, engage with HR or their leadership team. I am sure there are statistics somewhere that record the number of employees who stick around long term after a crisis has occurred and if there aren’t, then there should be.

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Facebook PR Exposed

Flatiron Communications

disregarded the core tenets of crisis PR. Rather than come clean quickly with the facts as they knew them when they knew them, The Times alleges that Facebook’s leadership purposely misled the public (and its own board) in an effort to downplay the depth of the Russian breach of its global social influence platform.

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An “Interview” with ChatGPT: What is Public Relations? How Has PR Changed? Will Artificial Intelligence Replace Comms Pros?

Sword and the Script

What is public relations? Public relations is the practice of building and maintaining relationships between an organization and its stakeholders. This can include the media, customers, employees, and the general public. PR can also involve managing events, speaking at conferences, and developing social media campaigns.