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Every once in a while, amid the junk on social media, there’s a post that can make you think about something that you’ve never thought about before and it actually merits consideration. It happened over the weekend when Washington Post media writer Paul Farhi tweeted: “Companies almost always say they “don’t discuss personnel matters” when … Continued
HBO’s Real Sports, a news magazine show focused on sports and sports-adjacent stories, recently turned its focus to Detroit with a report about the much-maligned District Detroit. District Detroit is the area surrounding Little Caesars Arena, home to the Detroit Red Wings and Detroit Pistons, and owned by the Ilitch family, founders of Little Caesars … Continued
There’s an aspect to PR that doesn’t get talked about enough. What better time to talk about it than St. Patrick’s Day? This past week, for the first time, we specifically mentioned luck, something not acknowledged enough, as a frequent factor in success. DTE Energy invited us to present to hundreds of Public Information Officers … Continued
It doesn’t take a PR analyst to tell you that in his nationally-televised and much-tweeted about press conference, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam, a man most of the country had never heard of before made a bad situation if not worse, then certainly more weird. You wouldn’t be wrong if you picked a cliche to describe … Continued
When working with clients in crisis, of any magnitude, there’s a question I think about every day. “Are we closer to the end of this than to the beginning?” If the answer is “no,” there needs to be some sort of movement toward “yes.” The goal should always be getting out of crisis. Sadly, for … Continued
No matter the line of work, if you do it for long enough, you’ll have plenty of “war stories” to tell the younger people in your workplace. This week marks 20 years since one of my all-timers. I was representing an airline when 7,000 of its passengers were stranded on its planes for up to … Continued