Amidst the unfolding story of Carnival Corporation, the US-based parent of the operator of the Costa Concordia and their crisis communications strategy (and news that they hired a crisis pr agency), the following book excerpt from my recently released...
Digital media such as twitter, Facebook, etc. offers a tremendous amount of opportunity – as well as a tremendous amount of risk. With instant exposure, some utilize the exposure to their advantage and others fail miserably. Hence two high...
Front page news in Europe is that Former Metropolitan Police chief Sir Paul Stephenson has joined a crisis PR agency. Stephenson resigned following allegations of his police force being involved with alleged phone taps with The News of the...
Spent nearly half of this week ensuring that a certain issue wouldn’t appear in the media for a client of my crisis PR agency, and happily I can report – nothing was published. As such, I thought to share...
Interesting article today in Crain’s NY Business entitled “Reputation management firms help professionals defend against bad reviews” for example review monitoring for doctors, which discusses how search engines are the #1 trusted source for finding out information, which is...
Some stories making the rounds regarding Public Relations:
I recently visited Atlantic City and have to say it’s truly an awfully unattractive, gross city. While Atlantic City’s marketing alliance has apparently hired the world’s largest Public Relations Firm to “help...
Who is Greg Smith, and why do we care? He was an employee who quit Goldman Sachs in a public way and posted it in a New York Times op-ed. The better question is why should we care? After...
Some recent media coverage on the Public Relations industry which I found interesting:
Carl Icahn, the legendary business investor is trying to buy a company and in doing so has blasted the company’s “PR Machine and Board.” He goes on...
Two interesting tidbits in the media which I wanted to share:
Born and bred in NYC, real estate and space has always been of interest, and the media’s portrayal of NYC apartments is always “interesting.” An interesting quote from the...
We work extensively as a crisis PR agency, and sometimes we need to be aggressive, and hard-hitting. This just released press-release is a “WOW” classic.
From Laura Nelson, Sr. VP Corporate Communications, Current TV
Current terminated Keith Olbermann last Thursday for...
