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Who Were The PR Winners And Losers of 2017?

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Ditto the national newspapers; both The Washington Post and The New York Times broke subscription records. United Airlines. As images of the bloodied man being dragged from his seat by airport police went viral, the airline made things worse with a series of legalistic and tone-deaf public responses.

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Dialogue Project urges business to lead on civil discourse and debate

Stephen Waddington

Others responsible include social media (80%); country leaders (79%); broadcast/cable news (75%); and national/international newspapers (75%). It was sponsored by the Institute of Public Relations and supported by Bristol-Myers Squibb, Chevron, Google, HP, Southwest Airlines and the University of Southern California.

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Crisis Management Lessons From Boeing’s 737 Max Disasters

PRSay

The airlines themselves have to return their fleets to service. We’d do an employee-news note after a story had run, which most [employees] had probably already read in a newspaper or seen online or on television. We have months ahead of us of returning the fleet we have stored — about 450 aircraft — to their customers. 1 priority.

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Behind the Headlines With Howard Stutz

Cision

It’s rare nowadays that the morning newspaper or the evening news telecast breaks a story. I don’t like to be late, especially for an airline flight. We have to adapt to the immediacy of the media market. More people get their news from Twitter and other similar resources than ever before. My biggest pet peeve is…tardiness.

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Delta Troop Fail - Consider the Bigger, Less Popular, Business Picture

Bad Pitch Blog

The White Zone is for Loading, Unloading & Assuming Anonymous sources I know that have dealt with similar situations at other airlines note the following: - First of all, spokespeople don''t set policy. When he was charged for a third bag, he decided to alert a local newspaper. It''s easy to dislike the airlines.

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7 Lessons Every Marketer Can Learn From The CrossFit Instagram Crisis

MaccaPR

Amidst the hurricane of PR catastrophes this past year – from H & M’s racist “Biggest Monkey in the Jungle” debacle, Papa John’s CEO attacking the NFL and Uber’s parade of scandals to United Airlines’ nose-breaking, tooth-shattering attack on a passenger, the Oscar “Best Picture is.Oops!” Facebook page ) and.

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Silver Anvil Preview: 5 Questions With NY1’s Pat Kiernan

PRSay

Here, the TV personality — known for his “In the Papers” feature humorously summarizing the New York daily newspapers — talks about engaging an audience, storytelling, the newsgathering process and work-life balance. It’s the place where United Airlines made its first statement after its PR crisis a few months ago.

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