Our top blogs of 2013 gave insight and advice on dealing with Crisis missteps, information leaks, and operational crises. For 2014, two suggestions – one for Crisis prevention, one for reputation enhancement: Reactive: organizations need to shore up brand monitoring and protection, due to the speed with which information can spread across social media.
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Video: Executive Clip Critique by Jerry Doyle for PR News
“You Can’t Use That!”
Read more In our second edition of Clip Critique for PR News, we see the CEO of RIM, Inc., Mike Lazaridis telling a BBC reporter what he can and cannot ask.
Truing up “60 Minutes”
“60 Minutes,” the flagship news magazine on CBS is currently in a reputation trough. Recent stories about its bad reporting on Benghazi , the Amazon puff piece that broke the drone delivery news, and now a soft story about the National Security Administration have momentarily dimmed its traditional luster.
Read more Only 500 Twitter followers??
I’ll bet a few days ago former PR executive Justine Sacco thought that having only 500 twitter followers was a safe way to stay under the radar. After all, there are almost 150 million people who follow the combined Twitter accounts of Katy Perry, Justin Bieber, and Lady Gaga.
Read more A&E Can’t Duck This One.
Is anyone really surprised that Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil Robertson gave an interview bashing the gay community? The real story will be how A&E handles the backlash coming from all sides.
Read more Lessons From the Year’s Worst CEOs
Dartmouth College Business Professor Sydney Finkelstein’s 2013 annual rating of the worst CEOs is illuminating on several fronts.
Turnarounds of ailing companies are high-risk propositions for Chief Executives. Whether it’s making the wrong moves like J.C.
Who do you trust?
“If it’s on the Internet, it must be true,” is the decade-old one-line joke about trusting bad information on the Web.
In today’s social media world concern about credibility is exponentially greater than in the good old days of search when you had to find information on the Internet; now the information finds you.
Read more CommCore in Partnership with PR News roles out “Executive Critique”
In conjunction with PR News, Jerry Doyle, principal of CommCore, will provide exclusive insight and analysis on what senior managers are doing right—and wrong—when engaging the media.
The first installment is an interview by Shantanu Narayen, CEO of Adobe Systems, on Australian television.
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