2026
PR Failure #56: Converse Had an Approval Process. So How Did This Get Through?
There are PR crises that are difficult to predict. A product fails unexpectedly. An executive says something during a live interview. An employee makes a ...
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Meet the Media: Molly Shen
1. Briefly share the path to your current career — why journalism? It all started in the 7th grade! I joined the school newspaper in ...
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Meet the Media: Harry Cheadle
1. Briefly share the path to your current career — why journalism? Believe it or not, journalism was the fallback plan — I wanted to ...
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PR Failure #55: Callaway and Good Good Golf just learned an expensive lesson about the difference of being edgy and being reckless.
Every once in a while, a PR failure comes along where the public reaction is almost secondary to the question every communications professional immediately asks… ...
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Meet the Media: Isabella Loy, Anacortes American/Stanwood Camano News
1. Briefly share the path to your current career — why journalism? I have always loved to read and write. So, when I got to ...
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PR Failure #54: FIFA Tried to Erase Stadium Sponsors. The Sponsors Found a Way Back In.
There is a strange thing happening at World Cup stadiums across North America. Some of the most recognizable stadiums in the country have suddenly lost ...
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Fearey’s Global PR Network Expands with New Agency Partners Across Europe, Latin America and the U.S.
PRGN—the global network Fearey co-founded—adds five agencies in France, Colombia, the U.K., Poland, and Boston SEATTLE — June 9, 2026 Fearey, an independent Seattle-based public ...
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PR Failure #53: Nike Forgot What Running Culture Became
“RUNNERS WELCOME. WALKERS TOLERATED.” That was the message plastered across a giant Nike billboard during Boston Marathon weekend. And for a brief moment, Nike probably ...
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Meet the Media: Egan Ward, PSBJ
May’s Meet the Media features Egan Ward, a reporter for the Puget Sound Business Journal. Briefly share your path to journalism—what drew you to it? ...
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PR Failure #52: When “Bonjour” and “Merci” Aren’t Enough
Two pilots are dead. A Montreal-bound jet collided with a fire truck on a runway at LaGuardia Airport. Captain Antoine Forest, a francophone from Quebec. ...
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