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Covington, KY Student vs. Native American Drummer Crisis Case Study

By Gerard Braud, CSP, Fellow IEC

The crisis dominating the news this week is the viral video of students from a Catholic High School in Covington, Kentucky shown in contrast to a Native American drummer.

It’s a crisis. It is requiring serious crisis communications and crisis management. The high school is in reaction mode. The student pictured most prominently is in reaction mode.

What could have been done to prevent this?

That is the question we are asking this week on The BraudCast.

While many PR people pride themselves on managing crisis communications after a crisis, I pride myself on all of the many times I never had to do crisis communications on behalf of clients because of the techniques we used to keep the crisis from ever happening.

Please share your idea and answers.

Please keep your answers objectively professional. This is not intended to be a conversation with snarky, politically volatile answers. We’re looking for professional public relations wisdom.

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Answer Hint: Part of the answer lies in the 5 Steps to Effective Crisis Communications. If you haven’t watched these 5 free videos, register here.

This question is one of a series of debates in the media relations, crisis communications, public relations, and social media industries where you and your colleagues can share observations with each other. Yes, YOU are invited to share your bite size bits of best practices. Here is how:

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