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Year: 2022

FUTUREPROOFING PUBLIC RELATIONS

Public Relations is a field which evolves overnight. What makes sense today may not make sense tomorrow. However, as PR practitioners, we have the magical power of paving the path to thefuture of PR, to some extent. Most nations have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and it is not unknown that the pandemic has […]
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The magical 72%

One half of climate change battle-front is equipped with scientific analysis, reams of observational and simulation data, and geographic reporting.  There’s that missing half which is equally crucial (if not more) in communicating this. If you have read the previous articles in the series, you may have guessed it already.  The other half of the […]
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Into the zone

Climate change news do not garner the attention of a breaking news headline. News about climate often runs like a slow train while other news headlines speedily pass by as if a bullet train.  A major concern is that climate change is too large a phenomenon for the average person to grasp clearly (while also […]
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Climate change messaging beyond the polar bear

What steps to be followed in a climate change messaging that goes beyond talking of polar bears? We now know that ‘one size fits all’ does not work. Different geographic locales, various social ideologies and diversity of communities bar us from taking that route. If the messaging to reach all/general public, commonly used concepts, identities […]
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Messaging on a clear and present danger

Messaging on a clear and present danger “The climate emergency is the biggest crisis we face as a society. The consequences of not meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement — the global framework to mitigate the most dangerous impacts of climate change — are projected to be devastating.” – Edelman Given the vast scale […]
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The most devastating crisis is here

When a crisis suddenly breaks out, crisis communications becomes crucial since it can mitigate the damage or prevent the situation from worsening any further. “Crisis is an event that brings, or has the potential for bringing, an organization into disrepute andimperils its future profitability, growth, and, possibly, its very survival” (Lerbinger, 1997). Organizations are equipped […]
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Crises are Today’s norm

Thought Leads-Climate Crisis Series: Part 1 “Crisis is an event that brings, or has the potential for bringing, an organization into disrepute and imperils its future profitability, growth, and, possibly, its very survival” (Lerbinger, 1997). Crises spring up in a multitude of ways. They are diverse, each with its own nature that cannot be explained […]
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News and Social Media

Across the world, a decline in mainstream news consumption has set in. The Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2021 (10th Edition) survey reports; “Interest in news has risen in some countries that have been badly affected by the crisis. It is also higher in people whose lives have been directly impacted, but on average across […]
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Pods in Sri Lanka

Closer to home, the new Podcast fever is not lost on Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. APAC turned out to be a key adopter of podcasts. A 2019 study conducted by Australia’s Xtra Insights involving 3000 respondents aged 16-39 in eight APAC countries on perceptions of radio, music, and their general audio consumption habits highlighted the adoption […]
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