By Howard Fencl, Hennes Communications Grab readers with your first sentence, and be brief about it! (hey – did you just check your phone?) No more than SIX WORDS in every sentence (that was eight, sorry!) People just don’t have the attention span that… (did you just send a text?) I’m all about punching up […]
By Jody Serrano for GIZMODO RIP, Queen Elizabeth II. There are a lot of things to do in the digital realm when a monarch dies, and one of the first places people go when a famous person dies is Wikipedia. While some on the internet were glued to Twitter or the BBC, checking for news […]
We often counsel clients who have been wrongly accused to tell their side and do everything possible to get ahead of the story. But sometimes, there aren’t any good choices, especially if the client’s most prized possession is his or her integrity. While we can’t vouch for this man’s integrity, we thought this story was […]
Speaker: Thom Fladung, Managing Partner, Hennes Communications Thursday, October 13th, 2022 | 12:00 – 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time (GMT-4) Fake news is not new news. Masters of the art include Benjamin Franklin. But in the digital media era, when information – true and false – travels in seconds, fake news has become a prevalent […]
By Jon Roozenbeek, Sander van der Linden and Stephan Lewandowsky for Nieman Lab From the COVID-19 pandemic to the war in Ukraine, misinformation is rife worldwide. Many tools have been designed to help people spot misinformation. The problem with most of them is how hard they are to deliver at scale. But we may […]
By Nora Jacobs, Hennes Communications For organizations responding to sudden, catastrophic crisis events, one of the most challenging decisions to make involves determining what to say and when to say it. Wait until all the facts have been gathered and you risk not being part of the critical first news cycle, which often sets […]
Bruce Hennes, Chief Executive Officer of Hennes Communications, was again named to the 2022 Lawdragon Global 100 Leaders in Legal Strategy and Consulting, the definitive guide to the experts in management, marketing, communication and recruiting most valued by law firm leaders. Hennes Communications, founded in 1989 and located in Cleveland, Ohio, is one of the […]
By Bruce Hennes, Hennes Communications If you’re a regular reader of this newsletter, you know we’re constantly encouraging you to have a crisis management/crisis communications plan in-place before something happens. We are also constantly reminding you understand that you only have minutes to respond to a crisis situation; to train and test your team; to […]
By Arelis R. Hernández and Paul Farhi for The Washington Post UVALDE, Tex. — Journalists had been threatened with arrest for getting too close to the mourners, so Houston Chronicle reporter Julian Gill stayed in the designated media area when he reported on funerals the week after the massacre at Robb Elementary School. Nevertheless, a […]
It’s a simple fact: Controversies today are tried in the Court of Public Opinion more often than the Court of Law. News now breaks first on social media, with traditional media sweeping Twitter, Facebook and YouTube for leads. Whether your organization is immersed in crisis or dealing with a hot-button issue, your news can quickly […]