by David Oates | Jul 7, 2019 | Blog
Thanks to Bradley J. Fikes of The San Diego Union-Tribune for reaching out to our own David Oates earlier this week for comment on how USC Trojans should respond to its latest #PR crisis with UCSD – University of California San Diego. To rebuild its battered...
by David Oates | Jul 1, 2019 | Blog
Here in San Diego, there’s a very popular annual county fair that draws about 40,000 visitors a day from early June until the 4th of July. It’s usually a big crowd pleaser. Just recently, a two-year-old died because of exposure to E. coli that turns out was...
by David Oates | Jun 23, 2019 | Blog
Thanks to Scott Robertson for including him in this “May The Best Brand Win” episode.
by David Oates | Jun 15, 2019 | Blog
I saw an incident recently where a pretty well-known chain was accused online by an influential social media person of racism. It was apparently due to some interaction at one of the franchise location. The company wanted to let the franchise owner deal with it and...
by David Oates | May 15, 2019 | Blog
A lot of organizations will view crisis PR purely in external terms. That’s all well and good, and very much true, but often times most companies will deal with a crisis PR event in their lifetime because of something that occurred internally. Case in point,...