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This week’s panel includes Internet Society Senior Content Strategist Dan York, 4L Strategies Partner Jennifer Zingsheim Phillips, and Scott Monty, principal and owner at Scott Monty Strategies. During our conversation, we talked about Volkswagen bringing four PR firms on board to help with its self-made emissions scandal as well as the number of communicators writing about how they would handle the crisis, the dust-up that has emerged over the announcement that a new app called Peeple will let individuals rate each other as though they were restaurants on Yelp, the convergence of PR and Investor Relations, whether brands are serious about their commitment to fighting breast cancer or if they’re just “pinkwashing,” newsroom adoption of Virtual Reality, and much more.
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This week’s panel includes Gerry Corbett, former PRSA Chair and CEO and CEO of Redphlag LLC; Chip Griffin, former CustomScoop CEO (and current host of Chats with Chip on the FIR Podcast Network); and Lionel Menchaca; Director of Corporate & Strategy for W2O Group and former chief blogger at Dell. During our conversation, we discuss the massive efforts Volkswagen needs to undertake in order to recover from its crisis, Brian Williams’ risky return to broadcast (and cable) television, the new forum for CEOs on late-night TV talk shows, the Mayo Clinic’s content partnership with the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Heather Armstrong’s decision to give up her ground-breaking mommy blog, and much more (including Dan York’s Tech Report).
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