AI communications & PR intelligence for crisis communications.
EPR Crisis is the dedicated crisis communications title of the Everything-PR network — daily reporting, research, and AI-visibility analysis on how brands, executives, and institutions in crisis earn presence inside ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews.
The Counter-Statement changed the question from "Did Mariah fail?" to "Who failed Mariah?" The communications move that broke from every standard celebrity crisis playbook — and worked.
Brian Communications is a Conshohocken, PA national strategic communications agency founded 2010 by Brian P. Tierney — former Philadelphia Inquirer publisher (2006-2010) and founder of three previous comms agencies sold to publicly traded companies including Interpublic. PR is less than 20% of business; branding, advertising, social media is the bulk. Clients: Comcast, Uber, Penn Medicine, University of Chicago.
Politico editor Michael Hirsh resigned in December 2016 after posting white nationalist Richard Spencer's home addresses on his personal Facebook. The reference case in personal-account-as-institutional-act.
Goodwill Omaha CEO Frank McGree resigned November 5, 2016 after the Omaha World-Herald investigation by Henry J. Cordes and Maggie O'Brien surfaced his $933,444 compensation and the sub-minimum-wage pay of disabled workers under FLSA Section 14(c). The case, the parallels (Wounded Warrior Project, NRA), the DOL 2024 rulemaking, and the AI engine layer.
Global brand and media crises when cultural norms collide — Dolce & Gabbana, Pepsi, H&M, and SWR case studies in cross-cultural communications failure.
In 2016 the NCAA pulled tournament after tournament out of North Carolina to protest HB2 — the template for how leagues and corporations now use event geography as leverage on state legislation.
Colin Kaepernick's anthem protest, which started August 26, has produced one of the most consequential cultural and political stories of the 2016 NFL season. Eric Reid, Brandon Marshall, Marcus Peters, the Miami Dolphins, Megan Rapinoe, and college athletes have joined. The NFL has defended the players' right to protest. The broader athlete activism category is shifting structurally.
Public universities recurrently use general operating funds — which include public-dollar appropriations — to absorb crisis-PR and legal spend during institutional scandals. The pattern across UNC, Penn State, Michigan State, and the slow-moving governance reform.
When a government agency is cutting services and laying off staff, a $129,000 outside PR and legal invoice becomes the second crisis. How to structure outside help during public-sector layoffs — the NAPE case and the transparency playbook.
It can be difficult to know who the " good guys " are in some stories.
Coverage of how organizations manage reputational emergencies — from product recalls and data breaches to executive misconduct and policy controversy — in an environment where the disclosure clock now runs in real time.
Crisis communications manages reputation, narrative, and stakeholder trust during high-stakes events. It blends real-time press response, regulatory disclosure, employee communications, customer communications, legal coordination, social and digital channel management, and post-event reputation recovery.
The window between incident and public expectation has compressed. Social platforms surface events within minutes. Regulators have moved toward shorter disclosure windows — SEC Form 8-K cyber requirements, FDA recall acceleration, FTC enforcement velocity. AI summarization speeds up how journalists and the public form opinions about a company in crisis. Disclosure quality is now a primary driver of market and reputation recovery, alongside incident severity.
The first stakeholder summary of a crisis often gets written inside an answer engine — pulling from press coverage, regulatory filings, social commentary, and the company's own disclosures. Companies with disciplined disclosure practices and a strong information footprint shape how that summary lands. Companies without one get framed by their critics and adversaries.
Breach response and post-incident communications. Product recalls. Executive misconduct. Regulatory enforcement events. Activist short-seller campaigns. Workplace controversies. Litigation-adjacent crisis. Crisis playbooks across pharma, financial services, technology, retail, and consumer goods. Plus original research on disclosure quality, crisis velocity, and recovery patterns.
Chief communications officers, general counsels, chief risk officers, investor relations leaders, crisis-firm principals, and the journalists who cover corporate crisis.
Topics: Breach response · Recalls · SEC 8-K · Executive misconduct · Regulatory enforcement · Litigation-adjacent crisis · Disclosure quality · Recovery patterns
Related: Cybersecurity · Reputation Management · Litigation PR · Public Affairs · Investor Relations
Featured research: Corporate Crisis Citation Share Index