Crisis Management

In our ever-faster news cycle, hot-button topics dominate our media feeds, demanding our attention. The dilemma is knowing what to say and when—or whether silence is indeed golden.

Our fourth annual Agency Elite Top 100, highlighting the industry’s most innovative PR, marketing and communications firms in the business.

In this week’s PR Roundup we take a look at how to communicate bankruptcy and financial issues, how not to take the stand and how to get Americans back to caring about the news. 

This week PR Roundup takes a look at major news outlet reporting mistakes regarding the Israel/Hamas conflict, X (formerly known as Twitter)’s free fall and Barbie’s commercial resurgence.

Beyond the legal and financial toll, the reputational damage for the Hyundai and Kia could be significant. It doesn’t have to be that way, if the automakers are willing to change course. 

The Friday news dump has turned into a match ready to light your worst news on fire.

Even with long-standing, trusted partners, you need to remember that their problems can become your own. In order to protect their reputations and businesses, founders and their communications teams must prepare for the right response when third-party risk becomes a firsthand problem.

This week we take a look at lesson from the ongoing writers’ strike, a new COVID testing rollout and ESG broken promises. 

In honor of the upcoming National Preparedness Month in September, PRNEWS decided to take a look at crisis from a climate change point of view.

Whenever a large-scale natural disaster strikes, the response is criticized as too little, too late, ill-prepared or inadequate. As we watch the devastation of the Maui fires, we see climate change is impacting when, where and how significantly natural disasters will threaten life and property.