Crisis Management

Men’s lifestyle magazine, Esquire, had an unfortunate technical glitch with its website on Sept. 11 and responded with a disingenuous tweet that sent some people reeling.

PR News on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2013, celebrated the winners and honorable mentions of its PR Agency Elite Awards at the Grand Hyatt in New York City.

This week, Business Insider fired its “brogrammer” CTO, Pax Dickinson, after media outlets shed light his repeated racist, sexist and homophobic tweets. But why did it take a public outcry for the publication to let him go?

Sure, Anthony Weiner was toast electorally weeks ago. And now that’s he’s officially been bounced from the Democratic primary, it’s likely we’ve seen the last of Weiner, at least politically.

PR News on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2013, celebrated the winners and honorable mentions of its PR Agency Elite Awards at the Grand Hyatt in New York City. The awards set benchmarks of excellence in client PR efforts, as PR agencies were recognized for their work in 23 practice areas.

Winner: APCO Worldwide By sticking with a formula consisting of a global 24/7 team committed to client services, APCO Worldwide helps brands to navigate crises and preserve their reputations. The Washington, D.C.-based agency is conditioned… Continued

Winner: MWW MWW takes its clients’ reputations pretty seriously. Nothing Earth-shattering there; all PR agencies say that. But MWW goes well beyond bromides about clients’ reputations, thanks to the agency’s Total Stakeholder Approach. It’s a… Continued

If your client doesn’t look polished and speak well, all of the messaging you perfected loses value.

Not more than a few years ago only serious foodies and natives of the Mediterranean sought out Greek-style yogurt. That trend has changed, and Chobani is a big reason for that. However, the company’s recent major product recall has stirred some doubts about quality assurance.

Social media ranking tool, Klout, is in hot water over a tasteless tweet.