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O'dwyer's Jan. '17 PR Buyer's Guide & Crisis Communications Magazine Communications & New Media Jan. 2017 I Vol. 31 No. 1 January 2017 | www.odwyerpr.com Vol. 31. No. 1 Jan. 2017 EDITORIAL SIX waYS TO prepare The year in review. FOR A CRISIS 6 22 Whether it’s a plaintiff’s lawsuit, MILLENNIALS SPOT a product recall or cyber attack, WORK discrimination a company’s good standing now Millennials place a high priority on faces more risks than ever. diversity in the workforce when 8 searching for jobs. CONSUMER-FACING CRISES THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR From data breaches to recalls, 10 FAKE NEWS 24 consumer-facing companies face Consumers, lawmakers and tech a unique set of challenges when industry leaders debate who bears 9 it comes to crisis communications. the blame for the fake news phe- nomenon. TRUMP’S TRIED AND TRUE PR PRACTICES O’DWYER’S PR ‘FAILS’ OF Donald Trump’s tweets have the 2016 26 ability to rattle the cage of corpo- Wells Fargo, Samsung and Mylan rate America. top O’Dwyer’s “PR fails” of 2016. 10 TRUMP’S TWEETS: 16 WWW.ODWYERPR.COM CITIZEN JOURNALISM’S THE impact IMPACT ON CRISIS 26 Donald Trump drew upon some Daily, up-to-the-minute PR news Citizen journalism has had an enor- conventional PR thinking during his mous impact on a communication 12 presidential campaign. team’s ability to respond in a crisis. PEOPLE IN PR TROUBLESHOOTING A CRISIS PLAN 28 Having a plan in place is the first PROFILES OF CRISIS step in preparing for a crisis, but no 14 COMMUNICATIONS FIRMS strategy is foolproof. 30 360° VR: THE FUTURE WASHINGTON OF STORYTELLING REPORT Why it’s important that PR agen- 16 40 cies incorporate 360° Virtual Real- EDITORIAL CALENDAR 2017 ity Video into their plans. columns January: Crisis Comms. / Buyer’s Guide WHEN PR AND LEGAL February: Environmental & P.A. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT March: Food & Beverage TEAM UP Fraser Seitel April: Broadcast & Social Media PR pros and attorneys are seen as 38 two entities at odds, but it’s critical 18 May: PR Firm Rankings FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT June: Global & Multicultural for both parties to work jointly to Richard Goldstein navigate reputational threats. 39 July: Travel & Tourism August: Financial/I.R. September: Beauty & Fashion GETTING CAUGHT WITH 2017 PR BUYER’S October: Healthcare & Medical YOUR pants DOWN GUIDE November: High-Tech Learning lessons from three of December: Entertainment & Sports 2016’s high-profile crises. 20 42 ADVERTISERS 5W Public Relations..................................................................................................3 PadillaCRT................................................................................................5 Fineman PR............................................................................................................15 Peppercomm.....................................................................................7 Gourvitz Communications.......................................................................................23 Sard Verbinnen.......................................................................................................21 ICR...........................................................................................................Back Cover Sitrick & Company...................................................................................................25 Joele Frank Wilkinson Brimmer Katcher.................................................................19 Sloane & Co............................................................................................................29 Kekst.......................................................................................................17 Solomon McCown & Co..........................................................................................13 Log-On..........................................................................................33 The Stevens Group.................................................................................................27 Marketing Maven.....................................................................................Inside Cover Strauss Media Strategies..........................................................................................8 Omega World Travel...............................................................................................35 TV Access...............................................................................................................38 O’Dwyer’s is published monthly for $60.00 a year ($7.00 for a single issue) by the J.R. O’Dwyer Co., Inc., 271 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016. (212) 679-2471; Fax: (212) 683-2750. Periodical postage paid at New York, N.Y., and additional mailing offices. Postmaster: Send address changes to O’Dwyer’s, 271 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016. O’Dwyer’s ISSN: 1931-8316. Published monthly. EDITORIAL 2016 in review: Trump bypasses press, PR functions onald Trump’s successful tactic of communicating directly to the public via tweets and other means, almost never having a news conference, is a worrisome development both Dfor journalism and public relations. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Both industries have lost lots of their powers in recent years. The number of reporters has Jack O’Dwyer shrunk along with ad revenues. Both Gallup and Pew put confidence in media around 20 per- [email protected] cent. It used to be in the ’70s. ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER Media that bet heavily on Clinton winning the presidency were red-faced when the results John O’Dwyer became known. New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. published a half-hearted apol- [email protected] ogy for the almost non-stop attacks on the Trump candidacy. The Times’ estimate that Clinton had an 84 percent chance of winning, made on the day of the election, resulted in some women SENIOR EDITOR thinking there was no need to vote. Jon Gingerich TheTimes is an example of media shrinkage. It is sub-leasing eight floors of its 52-story build- [email protected] ing at 620 Eighth Ave. between 40th and 41st streets. About 400 employees are affected. Hun- dreds of other employees have been laid off in recent years. The Times sold 21 floors of its space SENIOR EDITOR Greg Hazley in the building in 2009 for $225 million and leased it for 15 years. It could buy it back for $250 [email protected] million in 2019. The Times owns 58 percent of the building and Forest City, 42 percent. Tribune Media Co., Chicago, sold the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times in 2014 and this ART DIRECTOR year sold the iconic Tribune Tower in Chicago and the Times building in L.A. after an employee David Kniazuk buyout program. PR/press relations may warm CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Signs that PR/press relations may warm up after being cool for decades appeared at the Insti- Fraser Seitel tute for PR dinner Nov. 30. Richard Goldstein Patrick Ford, Burson-Marsteller executive and recipient of the Alexander Hamilton Medal of IPR, said the “most important role” of PR people is to “focus as much or more on behavior as EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS & RESEARCH we do on words.” Benjamin Abraham Among those listening was Tina McCorkindale, president of IPR who herself has said effec- Jane Landers tive communications requires that people talk to each other, even if they disagree. She calls this “dialogic looping.” ADVERTISING SALES The same advice was given at the dinner by Distinguished Lecturer Geoff Colvin, Fortune John O’Dwyer editor-at-large, who spoke about the importance of face-to-face communications. Certain parts Advertising Sales Manager of the brain “light up” when people are facing each other but are inactive when they talk to each [email protected] other without being F2F, he said, quoting research. PR availability is needed This reminded us of what Harold Burson said in accepting the PRSA Foundation’s Paladin O’Dwyer’s is published monthly for $60.00 a year ($7.00 a single issue) by the award for courage in communications in 2012. PR, according to Burson, has four duties: to J.R. O’Dwyer Co., Inc. listen; to be the corporate conscience; communicate, including answering questions and serve 271 Madison Ave., #600 as “ombudsman” representing the public’s interest to companies. New York, NY 10016. Our wish list for 2017 is that corporate and association PR people reach out to the press and (212) 679-2471 Fax: (212) 683-2750. not wait for the press to call them. Emails and phones of press contacts should be on websites rather than boxes where questions can be submitted. PR groups including PRSA, IABC and the © Copyright 2016 J.R. O’Dwyer Co., Inc. Arthur W. Page Society should open their membership lists to the press. PRSA and IABC used to publish their lists. Reporters should be able to join PRSA. One reason for the decline in the influence of the press is that it has become hard for report- OTHER PUBLICATIONS: ers to prize any facts out of companies and institutions. Press conferences and interviews with CEOs and other top execs have about vanished. Much of reporting today is combing official www.odwyerpr.com records, “data-mining.” Breaking news, commentary, useful data- PR professors, who have replaced PR firms and corporations as the dominant element in bases and more. PRSA, can lead such reforms if they wish. They must erase the bogus designation of APR from O’Dwyer’s Newsletter the Society’s governance structure. Despite a move to do that led by Richard Edelman, Art Ste- An six-page weekly with general PR vens and Dave Rickey in 2010, the 2017 board will have 16 APRs and one non-APR. news, media appointments and placement Cision surprises opportunities. Cision, which owns PR Newswire, Vocus
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