Good new week! Here's your Monday Daily PR Brief - January 13, 2025
Today's selections include Turo's crisis comms; top 2025 writing tips; Meta's moderation; and more!
Read some of today's best PR and Comms industry news clips:
Crisis lessons from Turo's response to New Year's Day attacks (PR Daily - January 13, 2025)
CES 2025: Samsung PR Team Gets Smart About AI, Media Trains Themselves (PRNEWS - January 10, 2025) [VIDEO]
7 Top Writing Tips for 2025 (PRsay - January 13, 2025)
Good and Bad PR: Retailers duke it out over Christmas glory (PRmoment (UK) - January 9, 2025)
Africa: Cradle of Humanity and Home to Young and Dynamic Markets (PRGN - January 13, 2025)
PR campaigns that transform climate data into global climate action (Agility PR Solutions - January 9, 2025)
An Unexpected Space For AI: Enhancing Real-World Connections At Events (Forbes - January 13, 2025)
Navigating Media Layoffs, Consolidation and Fragmentation: Top PR Takeaways for Brands (KWT Global - January 10, 2025)
How AI Has Changed Social Listening Forever (Mention - January 9, 2025)
Meta's Moderation and An Uncomfortable Truth About Social Networks - NevilleHobson .com (Neville Hobson - January 12, 2025)
2025 Forecast: Eight Issues That Will Define the Year Ahead (Maybe) (PRovoke Media - January 13, 2025)
Summary Section:
Crisis lessons from Turo's response to New Year's Day attacks
By Allison Carter
PR Daily - January 13, 2025
Turo, the peer-to-peer car rental company provided the vehicles used in both attacks. Overnight, the somewhat obscure organization was thrust into the national spotlight due to an incident they did not cause, but which they needed to immediately address.
CES 2025: Samsung PR Team Gets Smart About AI, Media Trains Themselves [VIDEO]
By Nicole Schuman
PRNEWS - January 10, 2025
PRNEWS spoke to Alyson Buck, Senior Director, Head of Strategic PR, Samsung Electronics America during CES 2025. Buck, a 16-year CES veteran, talked about working with traditional media, while acknowledging emerging digital creators, as well as the company's messaging and actions regarding AI, media training the PR team, and the one thing everyone needs during CES.
7 Top Writing Tips for 2025
By Ann Wylie
PRsay - January 13, 2025
Friends! I started the New Year with a vision board workshop. (There’s something so soothing about cutting and pasting IRL.) There, our delightful leader recommended that we call our masterpieces DECISION boards, not vision boards. In the spirit of manifesting a delightful and successful 2025, here are seven decisions to make for your writing practice this year.
Good and Bad PR: Retailers duke it out over Christmas glory
By Andy Barr, Season One Communications
PRmoment (UK) - January 9, 2025
The year 2025 is here baby, it has to be better than 2024 right? Off we go again and the world of Good and Bad PR never sleeps, especially after the Golden Quarter for retail. Join me as I take a jolly romp through the winners and losers.
Africa: Cradle of Humanity and Home to Young and Dynamic Markets
By Gilbert Manirakiza
PRGN - January 13, 2025
In this PRGN blog post, Gilbert Manirakiza of The Newmark Group describes the business, media, and communications landscape in Africa.
PR campaigns that transform climate data into global climate action
By Mia Miller
Agility PR Solutions - January 9, 2025
As climate change is no longer a faraway threat but rather a live crisis in the present, public relations campaigns become more and more critical. Converting raw climate data into meaningful and actionable global initiatives requires more than scientific reports.
An Unexpected Space For AI: Enhancing Real-World Connections At Events
By Nhu Khue Ngo
Forbes - January 13, 2025
AI isn’t meant to replace the emotional connections that make live events so impactful; it can make them even better.
Navigating Media Layoffs, Consolidation and Fragmentation: Top PR Takeaways for Brands
By Janel Hlebak
KWT Global - January 10, 2025
The media landscape continues to evolve, with mass layoffs, niche publications and the rise of generative AI reshaping approaches to media relations. Earned media success now depends on strong relationships, tailored pitches and emerging platforms like podcasts, newsletters and journo-fluencers.
How AI Has Changed Social Listening Forever
By Shanice Jones
Mention - January 9, 2025
As AI takes on a bigger role in social listening and social media marketing, it's important to ask whether we're able to handle the challenges that come with it and its adoption. Discover the revolutionary role of AI in social listening, from real-time monitoring to audience segmentation.
Meta's Moderation and An Uncomfortable Truth About Social Networks - NevilleHobson .com
Neville Hobson - January 12, 2025
On 7 January, Mark Zuckerberg announced sweeping changes to content moderation and fact-checking across Meta's platforms – Facebook, Instagram and Threads – sparking widespread reaction and debate about the future of online discourse and the role of social networks in shaping global conversations.
2025 Forecast: Eight Issues That Will Define the Year Ahead (Maybe)
PRovoke Media - January 13, 2025
Corporations will need to develop a voice that cuts through the chaos and balance the shprt-term needs of one stakeholders against a more long-term approach. Ai and Gen Alpha will drive change. And firms will need humanity and (still) DEI.
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