The media interview is not the right time to be reviewing answers and going over tactics! Ken Starr, the recently ousted president of Baylor University following an investigation into the mishandling of sexual assault at the school, and his media adviser Merrie Spaeth, founder of Spaeth Communications, learned this first-hand. In a KWTX News 10 interview from earlier this month, a journalist …
Podcast Episode #45: Lessons for Communicators from the University of Missouri Protests
It has been a very difficult last couple of weeks for the University of Missouri as the school has been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons. African American students led protests because administrators were slow to respond to various safety issues raised. Things seemed to come to a culmination following negative student encounters with University President Tim Wolfe. One graduate student …
Podcast #12: Dealing with a University Crisis Communications Scenario
Student misbehavior, protests against university policy and violence on campus – these are among the issues that a university spokesperson must be prepared to address from a crisis communications perspective. If you are looking to hear best practice on crisis communications within a higher education environment, then you will want to listen to episode 12 of FIR on Higher Education. Michael …