Public Accountability Requires Citizen Action (disasteraccountability.org)
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies just released its annual ”World Disasters Report,” available online. This year, the focus is discrimination in disaster relief programs – and a sobering report it is. The 2007 World Disasters Report addresses widely held misconceptions and offers valuable recommendations for making disaster services more responsive to [...]
Today, the crisis communications experts at Fineman PR issued their annual Top 10 PR Blunders List. Nine contenders, including the contaminated pet food crisis, Paris Hilton’s home confinement and Ellen DeGeneres’ dog adoption saga, were elbowed from first place by FEMA’s bungled news conference on the Southern California wildfires. The judges at Fineman offered this [...]