Crisis Management

If you created a campaign that was this widely viewed but also this widely derided, would you be promoted or censured?

Mistakes were made. More mistakes were made.

If there’s one lesson from recent crises it may be that the very moment you are considered a “Wall Street darling” is when you should be preparing and rehearsing your crisis communications plan. For very

Ashley McCown, President of Boston-based Strategic Communications firm Solomon McCown, provides her annual review of the top ten public relations crises of the year.

In the court of public opinion, the arrest of Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO and founder Martin Shkreli for securities fraud is inextricably linked to this year’s sudden, stratospheric rise in the price of AIDS drug Daraprim.

An unforeseen crisis can’t be prevented, and with the immediacy of today’s media, it can take minutes for misinformation to morph into its own conversation.

Here’s our purely subjective list of some of the year’s top PR stories covered by PR News, in no particular order, with links to coverage.

We look at some of the biggest PR crises of recent months and see if all that bad press has a silver lining.

Winner: John Guilfoil, Owner/Principal, John Guilfoil Public Relations (JGPR) John Guilfoil has proven to the police and fire departments of New England that his services are of value. In just one year, he’s grown his… Continued

Winner: Karen Doyne, Managing Director and Leader, US Crisis Practice, Burson-Marsteller From the tragedy at Virginia Tech to the Target data breach to the Lufthansa/Germanwings crash to countless other crises, Karen Doyne brings to every… Continued