crisis-communications

Ironic PR Disaster Strikes PR Magazine

Hamilton Nolan · 02/04/08 03:55PM

PRWeek spends a lot of time telling publicists how to do their jobs. Embarrassing, then, that last week the magazine bombarded thousands in their database with unwanted emails. Bonus feature: the message included the names and passwords of other people! All that time the staff spends writing features about crisis communications is coming in handy now. After the jump, PRWeek editor Julia Hood's apology to readers who are, in the words of a tipster, "piiiissed." [Disclosure: I formerly worked at PRW][PRWeek]