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6 Best Practices for Identifying and Reacting to a PR Crisis

Cision

Crisis communication is an important aspect of most PR roles. In the Journal of Marketing Management, a group of British researchers write that crisis communication has “implications for brand equity and consumers’ purchase intentions.” Identifying a PR crisis. Note: not everything is a crisis.

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“Social Media Crisis” and Other Buzzwords that Need to Go

Melissa Agnes

Melissa’s #1 despised buzzword: Social media crisis. The fact of the matter is that a crisis is a crisis. The definition of a crisis: A negative situation / event that threatens to have long-term repercussions on the organization’s reputation and/or bottom line. So let’s call it like it is!

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

MaccaPR

But oh, lordy – we as communications and marketing professionals can receive a master class in what NOT to do during a crisis from Lochte’s self-immolation at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. The reporter posted the mother’s story on Twitter, which went viral with over 3,000 retweets.

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Be Human: 4 Lessons From xPotomac 2015

Cision

Discussions touched on the way technology has shaped how we share content, work together, report the news and respond in the midst of a crisis. One theme kept resurfacing throughout the day: we must remind ourselves to be human amidst the constantly changing and evolving communication horizon. Preparing for crisis.

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Wendy Glavin and CommPRO Report on the Livestream: Breaking Down the State of the Media in 2017

Cision

Scale for scale’s sake creates undifferentiated viral clones, where you die by the algorithms. Richard Levick: On the crisis side, we are in a technology revolution which is much more complex. You’re seeing this at The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Slate and The Daily Beast. How are you looking at the data?

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