By Lane Brown With Reporting by Luke Winkie for Vulture The most overrated metric in movies is erratic, reductive, and easily hacked — and yet has Hollywood in its grip. In 2018, a movie-publicity company called Bunker 15 took on a new project: Ophelia, a feminist retelling of Hamlet starring Daisy Ridley. Critics who had seen early screenings had published 13 reviews, […]
By Hannah Carvalho for Associations Now Every board wants to feel like they understand the association’s members and their needs. But that’s not always easy, especially since every organization is composed of members with different viewpoints and backgrounds. “The board wants to understand the wishes of the membership and feel like they are connected,” said […]
By Grant T. Harris for the Harvard Business Review Find the “Crucial Nodder” Briefing a senior executive is an art and adept White House staffers do it every day under the most stressful of circumstances. They’re masters of compressing the right information into the right amount of time, no matter how complex the topic or […]
From Joe Novarro, writing for Politico I learned that humans are fairly good at lying — but they’re lousy at concealing their true emotions, especially when stressed. We reveal our unspoken thoughts in our bodies: faces flushed with embarrassment, lips pursed at unwelcome questions, fingers covering the neck dimple when discussing a touchy subject. I […]
Hennes Communications has been named among the top crisis PR firms in the U.S. by Chambers and Partners, considered the leading independent professional legal research company in the world. Hennes is one of only 16 communication consulting firms included in the list for 2023. “We are thrilled to be included in what is probably the […]
By Andrew Moyer for PRNews [Editor’s Note: With negotiations between UPS and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters still ongoing and the looming potential for the former to strike, businesses large and small must be prepared for disruption. Here, our author identifies the impact a third-party partner can have on an organization and how businesses should efficiently and accurately communicate […]
By James F. Haggerty and Thom Weidlich for PRNews A big challenge to handling media relations around a lawsuit is understanding the rise and fall of media interest as the litigation drags on (as it typically does). One way to think about it is to keep track of standard mileposts in litigation that will be […]
By Bruce Hennes, Hennes Communications Before James Comey headed up the F.B.I., he served as general counsel of Lockheed Martin Corporation. While at Lockheed, he spoke at the National Security Agency about how studying law is similar to the education intelligence analysts receive. “You read a case and decipher…relevant facts, the [outcome] of the case…you are drilled […]
By Sherri Kolade for Ragan Consumers across the board are not shy about letting brands know where they mucked up – and communicators, for the most part, are interested in responding to crises as they come as well. According to the 2nd Annual HarrisX & Ragan CEO/Communicators Perceptions Survey, published last October, about three in five […]
By Haleluya Hadero for Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Celebrities, lawmakers, brands and everyday social media users are flocking to Meta’s freshly minted app Threads to connect with their followers, including many Twitter refugees tired of the drama surrounding Elon Musk’s raucous oversight of that platform. But the real question is: Will they stay? […]