Miss Turkey Loses Tiara Over Tweet
Yet another beauty queen has lost her crown over PR issues. According to the Associated Press, Miss Turkey 2017 was “stripped of her crown over a social media posting deemed to be insulting the...
Category: Crisis PR
Google Faces Class Action Suit
Accusations of sexism at Google have ratcheted higher in recent days with the filing of a gender pay discrimination lawsuit. The suit was filed on behalf of three former Google employees. However, the attorney...
Joel Osteen Fighting Back After Harvey Miscues
Millions love Houston-based megachurch pastor and TV preacher Joel Osteen. Millions more hate him. That’s par for the course in his line of work. Osteen, thanks to his ostentatious displays of wealth – the...
Equifax Breach Puts 143 Million Credit
Using consumers at risk of identity theft We live in the age of the computer pirate, the hacker, and the security breach. It’s almost becoming pedestrian. Week after week, someone is getting hacked. From...
Kushner Shifts to Crisis PR
There’s definitely a time and place for crisis PR. Usually, you need it before you think you do, and long after you believe everything is “all good.” But this isn’t a story about a...
Cops Hammered for Lack of Camera Use After Minnesota Shooting
When police agencies around the country agreed to begin using body cameras, both cops and protesters cheered. The police believe having the cameras can protect them from undue criticism and false accusations of brutality...
United Takes Steps to Reduce Involuntary “Bumping”
United Airline is taking a public relations beating this year…much of it self-inflicted. Now, after months of misfires and misreading public sentiment, the company appears to be trying to make moves in the right...
What Leaders Can Do in a Corporate Crisis
Once there is a corporate crisis, there’s also a big threat to the financial fortunes of the company, as well as their relations and reputation with the world at large and the key stakeholders....
Silicon Valley Bigwigs Hit With Sexual Harassment Claims
The Tech industry has long been accused of promoting a “boys club” atmosphere that is both dismissive of and antagonistic to women. Many big names in the industry have fought to dispel this reputation,...
Flint Water Crisis Leads to Manslaughter Charges
It was a crisis that shocked the nation and enraged people from across the world. Flint, Michigan’s water was bad, some officials knew … and no one did a thing as kids turned up...
