The City of Tupelo, Miss., has engaged crisis PR counsel after the June 18 police shooting of an African-American man following a traffic stop drew national attention.
The shooting of the man, Antwun Shumpert, has drawn wide scrutiny among media and activists, fueled in part by Shumpert's lawyer's comparison of the event -- Shumpert was unarmed and also attacked by a police dog -- to a "lynching" evocative of Mississippi's history of racial discord.
The city brought in Danny Blanton, former PR head of the Univ. of Mississippi and an ex-communications manager for Entergy's Jackson nuclear operations, to advise the city on the PR front.
WTVA reported Blanton is on a $5,000-per-month retainer through June 2017 on a month-to-month basis.
There is a huge chasm when it comes to support the Iranian invasion between Americans and Israelis.
Tricia McLaughlin, the combative spokesperson for Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, is leaving her post.
While finding the right solution to a problem is still important, the work that differentiates effective communications leaders is problem-finding—identifying the real risk before it becomes visible, reputational or irreversible.
Orchestra has recruited Deepika Sandhu for the senior VP-legal & crisis communications slot.
Apologies are often seen as a weakness or as proof that a leader has lost control of the narrative. But Donald Trump's failure to apologize after he posted—and then deleted—a video with a racist clip of Barack and Michelle Obama shows how flawed this mindset is.
