
Crisis PR: Keeping Employees in the Know
When most companies think of crisis management, they think of handling the issue in the public sphere.

When most companies think of crisis management, they think of handling the issue in the public sphere.

The Chicago Police Department is still reeling after a task force announced findings that included "decades" of systematic discrimination among law enforcement.

In November 2011, the University of California, Davis' police handling of a student protest attracted an onslaught of bad publicity.

The 2016 Panama Papers leak — 11.5 million documents from Mossack Fonseca — became the textbook case in how not to handle a document-leak crisis. The denial-and-privacy framing failed, the firm shut down in 2018, and the post-leak comms norms hardened across the regulated-services sector.

Fifteen years ago this month the world of NASCAR was rocked to its core by the death of racing legend Dale "The Intimidator" Earnhardt.

The Penn State institutional cover-up pattern — what happens when boards prioritize brand protection over external reporting. The operational lesson that every board, university, and major employer has had to absorb.
Okay, everyone knows Facebook and Twitter are must-have social platforms.

Benjamin Brafman's playbook for the unwinnable client. Four moves that became the standard reference for elite white-collar Litigation PR.

In today's digital world the lines between facts, entertainment, public image, vocation, and recreation are growing ever blurrier.

The PR software market reset on AI in 2024-2026. Cision, Muck Rack, Meltwater, Notified — plus the GEO-native challengers reshaping the stack.