PRSay

JULY 1, 2022

About 2,200 local print newspapers have closed since 2005, cutting the number of newspaper journalists by more than half between 2008 and 2020. Rereading our original chapter on crisis communications underscores the changes that have taken place in corporate America and public relations since then. million in 1974 to 24.3

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PRSay

AUGUST 11, 2021

In addition, relationships with reporters developed through media relations work will eventually become vital to any PR effort, especially in times of crisis communication. The practice of media relations resides at the intersection of what’s important to the organization and what the media and public value. Op-Eds remain the gold standard.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 14, 2016

Two of the top contenders for best picture, “Spotlight” and “The Big Short,” elucidate real life incidents of cultural importance: the Catholic Church molestation scandal and the 2008 financial crisis, respectively. These topics are so rich and ripe for conversation that the movies resonated with audiences.

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Ronn Torossian

OCTOBER 1, 2018

On the back of the ten year “anniversary” of the global financial crash of 2008, is this a public pushback the banking sector can wait out? According to latest figures released by trade body UK Finance, some $190 … READ MORE ».

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Buchanan PR

MARCH 11, 2025

Ifill also co-anchored the PBS NewsHour with Judy Woodruff and made history as the first Black woman to moderate a vice-presidential debate in 2004 and 2008. Judy Smith A trailblazer in crisis communications, Judy Smith is the inspiration behind the hit TV show Scandal.

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Stephen Waddington

APRIL 12, 2020

The PRCA has launched an international taskforce of 50+ volunteers to help support members managing their businesses during the crisis. The dot com crash, 911 and the financial crash in 2008 all left scars in my career. Plan and act now We’re starting to understand the nature and shape of the COVID-19 crisis.

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Sword and the Script

JULY 23, 2024

The PR software startup Propel summed it up well recently: “It’s not surprising that securing high-quality press coverage keeps getting more difficult, especially given that Q1 of 2024 was one of the worst quarters for journalist layoffs since the 2008 financial crisis.” >>> Need an extra pair of hands?

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PRSay

MARCH 26, 2021

I had a career identity crisis before I even started! I graduated from college at the start of the great recession in 2008; finding a job was tough. What challenges did you face when first entering PR and marketing?

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PRSay

OCTOBER 8, 2018

However, this outlook changed drastically after the housing bubble crisis in 2008. But because their struggle isn’t frequently thought of as a systemic problem, American adults assume it’s their cross to bear alone. This leads to people working longer hours and taking on additional jobs just to pay the mortgage.

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Stephen Waddington

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

By comparison, during the 2008 recession GDP shrunk by no more than 2.1% Agencies that work in sectors or provide services that have been needed during the pandemic have had an altogether different crisis. The economy is slowly recovering but the impact of COVID-19 has been brutal. in any quarter. There is no magic.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 27, 2020

The recession of 2008 changed housing. PR pros have always been connectors and coordinators for their clients and organizations, but during the current crisis, collaboration has seen a heavy increase,” according to the report. The COVID-19 pandemic will certainly have lasting effects. How will it change PR and communications?

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PR Conversations

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Let’s look at some of the main statements made by Jim during the 2008 interview and ask ourselves some questions: I dislike the term “targeted” publics. Jim Grunig (2008) Powerful and meaningful statement on the fact that we need to see the reality (also or mostly) through the publics’ eyes. “I

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 2, 2024

The founding HARO was founded by Peter Shankman in 2008 as a Facebook group for journalists in need of sources. This latest move may make financial sense, but it’s the second serious crisis communications distraction for the company in Europe. The change will take effect on April 2, 2024.

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 21, 2023

The financial crisis of 2008-2009 still haunts many of us; Frayed nerves. And while reasonable people can disagree about the cause, there’s no debating the effect: Depositors lost faith. They lost confidence. They didn’t trust the bank. The banking community has some unique dynamics… Scar tissue.

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Solo PR Pro

MARCH 22, 2022

Our blog archives from 2008 during the financial crisis and recession still offer some pretty solid advice, even more than a decade later. ). Crisis-Proof Your Solo Business: 5 Tips to Help You When Things Go South. It's totally normal — I know I've been there myself. However, even in the midst of turmoil, we are resilient.

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Institute for Public Relations

AUGUST 6, 2024

After years of skepticism in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, the global banking industry has clawed its way back and regained the trust of customers and employees. That is one of the main conclusions from the 2024 Edelman Trust Barometer: Financial Services Edition.

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Reputation Us

JULY 13, 2017

After the economic downfall of 2008 the Fed wanted to ensure banks would be able to continue to lend to consumers and businesses even in a severe financial crisis. banks have significantly rebounded from the 2008 financial shock. What baggage or scar tissue might remain from eight years ago with the financial crisis?

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Reputation Us

JULY 14, 2017

After the economic downfall of 2008 the Fed wanted to ensure banks would be able to continue to lend to consumers and businesses even in a severe financial crisis. banks have significantly rebounded from the 2008 financial shock. What baggage or scar tissue might remain from eight years ago with the financial crisis?

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 11, 2020

As I look out across my peers in B2B marketing , for many of us, this is our third trip to recession rodeo – after the dot-com bust and financial crisis of 2008. It’s amazing how fast our world can change, but there is a growing body of knowledge for how to market in troubling times.

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Cision

MAY 4, 2016

It will include reputation management, crisis management, brand enhancement and media relations. I ended 45 years in journalism when I retired as editor of the Austin American-Statesman in 2008, so it didn’t feel like a “switch” so much as completing one phase of my life. What will this role entail? What was behind that decision?

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Shift Communications

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

However, since the financial crash of 2008 and the coinciding rise of AWS, iPhones, and frictionless services, non-banks are finding creative ways to fill financial needs for both consumers and businesses across the country in a phenomenon known as shadow banking. As expected, the “big” banks offer something in all of these areas.

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Ethical Voices

MAY 18, 2023

One of the researchers made the strong claim that this makes prominent “news organizations complicit in actively creating and spreading disinformation about the climate crisis.” The study found that there were more than 27,000 native ads mentioning climate and the environment.

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Shift Communications

JULY 26, 2022

During the “Great Recession” of 2008, nearly eight million people lost their jobs. With this, we can anticipate a different look and feel to the labor market. For all companies, but especially those that deliver technology and services for the workforce, now is the time to prepare.

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MaccaPR

MAY 23, 2016

Example: RTI International undertook a study that examined Twitter posts about e-cigarettes between 2008 and 2013 to gain insight into how companies were selling and promoting the product, as well as the locations where people use e-cigs the most. Communicating During a Crisis.

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Maxim Behar

DECEMBER 1, 2024

I firmly believe in a rule I coined during the 2008 financial crisis: the worst decision is better than no decision at all. We work with the trust of large international companies, so for me, risk is more about protecting their brands, reputations, and businesses.

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Solo PR Pro

MAY 17, 2022

I had my midlife crisis at 17.”. She did start a blog in 2008, though. A month into her studies at the University of Chicago, though, she started reading poetry. “I I discovered Wordsworth, and my entire universe crumbled,” she says. “I Daria shifted gears and eventually graduated with a bachelor’s degree in comparative literature.

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PR Conversations

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Then, please return to read this Reflexivity Memo inspired by Jim’s answers to the questions that I posed in 2008: Q9. Craft skills in 2008 – such as writing or editing – were an entry point for many, expected by employers, and readily supplied by educational institutions. I’m not convinced this has happened.

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Presspage

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

When the Global Financial Crisis occurred in 2008, traditional news media was hit hard. As thousands of journalists lost their jobs, they left a big vacuum in the field of content publishing. Around the same time, Web 2.0

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wiredPRworks

MAY 6, 2020

It’s a challenging time in so many ways, yet crisis communications is a place where PR people can shine a light. An original digital marketing thought leader, Barbara founded Social Media Club Chicago in 2008. For businesses, organizations, and people, now is not the time to sit out in a PR quarantine.

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Bad Pitch Blog

AUGUST 20, 2008

As a result, we have not been able to post to the blog since Monday, August 4, 2008. We also whined, er, updated everyone via Twitter during our crisis. Actually an “over eager Blogger spam attack robot from hell” thought our blog was "one of those" types of blogs. A Blogger employee finally took pity on us and jimmied the lock.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 30, 2017

What we made, on a platform called Moveable Type in 2008, was a pretty good start, but there was also a lot of red-tape. One of my first pieces that got real traffic was a crisis case study from my former employer, which coincidentally was about dealing with a negative blogger. A half year later my employer was acquired.

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Maxim Behar

JANUARY 18, 2023

They don't remember hyperinflation, they don't remember the hard winters, they don't even remember the crisis of 2008-2009. In general, after the 2008 crisis. Maxim : These are young intelligent people, very well-educated, quick to fix, quick to react, who have not had any difficulty in their entire lives.

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Mindful Marketing

APRIL 10, 2021

He also cites an example from the financial crisis in late 2008, when the SEC temporarily banned the short selling of financial stocks “without any noticeable degradation of liquidity in those stocks.” of trading volume on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). of trading volume on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).

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Mark My Words

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Jay-Z’s company, which started out in 2008 as a boutique music agency, provides what it calls ‘career specialist management’. Jay-Z founded Roc Nation in 2008 as a boutique label and artist representation company. ‘Maro and Marcus are fighting for what’s right,’ says a sports branding expert who has worked with Roc Nation. ‘It

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 2, 2019

The housing crisis of 2008 spurred largely by risky loans and securitized mortgages, that both diversified the financial risk and cause us to collectively lose sight of where it was precisely, set off the most severe recession we’ve seen in a long time. Then the economy changed.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2022

I got my start in journalism in 2008, working for a weekly newspaper in Connecticut called The Middlebury Bee-Intelligencer. Be sure to check out some of Cristina’s recent articles: Trucking by the Numbers 2021: A supply chain in crisis. How long have you been in journalism and how did you get started?

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

For example, the financial crisis in 2008 spurred corporations to reduce the number of law firms they use (big companies can easily have 100 law firms) in favor of boosting headcount in corporate legal departments and bring more legal work in-house over the course of a decade.

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