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.
Jonathan Halvorson, a veteran of Mondelez, Twitter and GM, is set to take the CMO post at Kenvue as it faces a Texas lawsuit about the about alleged links between its Tylenol and autism.
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store has dumped San Francisco-based Prophet, the creative consultant responsible for its disastrous logo and restaurant refresh.
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Cracker Barrel has called in Edelman for crisis work regarding the backlash surrounding its decision to drop the “old timer” leaning on a barrel from its logo.
