We continued our celebrations of the CIPR Crisis Communications Network’s fifth anniversary with one of our Open House events. These events are all about giving members the floor. And, with our anniversary theme of Celebrating our Past: Shaping Your Future, we wanted to hear what members thought we should do more of, what we might … Continue reading Happy birthday to us! Celebrating five years of the Network – and shaping what comes next
March 2015, October 2026 On 26 March 2015, two days after Germanwings flight 4U9525 crashed in the French Alps, the Marseille public prosecutor met the families, then stepped in front of the press. Until that moment, we at Lufthansa had been communicating about an accident. But within minutes it had become something else entirely – … Continue reading One incident, five stories: what flydubai FZ1073 tells us about who owns a crisis
We have hosted more than 40 events since the Crisis Communications Network was launched in 2021. There are too many highlights to list here. But for me personally, the chance to interview one of my crisis and disaster management heroes, Professor Lucy Easthope, is right up there. Lucy is the UK’s foremost authority on recovering … Continue reading We Are All Disaster Survivors Now
It started with a simple idea. By late summer 2020 the world felt like a very different place from the one we had known only months before. All the old rhythms of life had stopped but nothing had yet replaced them. The atmosphere was saturated with uncertainty, dread and a genuine sense of chaos. Confidence … Continue reading Genesis: Looking Back at the First Five Years of the Crisis Communications Network
