Having once looked up to us as the shining city on the hill, are they now scratching their heads?

By the time the judge unsealed the grand jury indictment and then kicked the press out of the courtroom, it was late on Monday night August 14. Officials then said it would take one to three hours for the indictment to be made available to the press and the public.

America First Legal (AFL), a legal group founded by Stephen Miller, has filed a lawsuit against Target, accusing the company of making misleading statements about its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) practices and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) policies.

There’s no need for students of public relations to read the chapter on media relations in expensive text books because every day since former President Donald Trump announced that he was running for president in 2015 his actions have provided a Master’s Class in how not to act when dealing with the media.

A recent incident involving Kellen Browning, a reporter for The New York Times, has brought to light the complexities of maintaining sensitivity in the face of tragedy.

When you’re in PR like me and have been doing crisis management forever, you can’t help thinking how you would handle the ultimate cases you see swirling in the news media and hear in interview after interview on TV today.

Lizzo’s options seem limited, though earlier celebrity public relations crises may provide useful insights.

Many new valuable “not to do” PR lessons will emerge, as they have since the beginning of the various civil and criminal investigations of Mr. Trump began.

How are leaders expected to navigate the fine line between managing differing views and expectations across their employee, customer, and consumer base? How do you ensure you are prepared to mitigate issues so they don’t become crisis?

A lot of businesspeople ridicule communication as a low priority, nice-to-have soft skill. It’s likely these same people missed how large a role communication played in the recent collapse of Silicon Valley Bank.