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The World Economic Forum today deferred its January 17-21 Davos annual meeting of billionaires, corporate tycoons, celebrities, politicos, influencers and ad/PR people until the early summer due to the Omicron outbreak.
The high-level of Omicron transmissibility and its impact on travel and mobility forced WEF’s hand.
WEF slates online “State of the World” sessions in January to tide participants over until the in-person gathering in the summer.
“The deferral of the annual meeting will not prevent progress through continued digital convening of leaders from business, government and civil society,” Klaus Schwab, WEF founder and executive chairman, said in a statement. “Public-private cooperation has moved forward throughout the pandemic and that will continue apace."
Gregg Feistman, M.A., Professor of Practice in Public Relations at Temple University and former corporate communications executive, joins Taking the Lead to discuss the frameworks leaders can use to determine when to speak up or stay silent.
Sam Singer, the Bay Area’s go-to crisis PR guy, today celebrated his client OpenAI’s “tremendous victory” over Elon Musk.
Deepfakes have crossed a critical threshold from an emerging concern to an effective tool, where any public figure is now a target for AI-enabled reputational manipulation. Here’s what PR pros need to know.
If you’re like a lot of people, you have been obsessed with “Love Story,” the FX series that has been airing for the past eight weeks about JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette. But why didn’t Kennedy use crisis PR to deal with the paparazzi, the news media and the tabloids?
