Reputation Town

John Perenack and Warren Weeks
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Reputation Town

Two long-time communications practitioners talking about media relations, issues management and all things related to corporate reputation.

  1. 3 DAYS AGO

    2024 Wrap-Up: Top PR crisis stories of the year with guest Molly McPherson

    This week, we welcome back our friend Molly McPherson to help us wrap up 2024 and break down some of the top PR crisis stories. We didn't discuss our topics with each other ahead of time, so in this episode, you're getting our real-time reactions and breakdowns to these stories, including the strategies behind them (or lack thereof) and any lessons learned. Thanks to Molly for joining us and we hope you enjoy this year-end episode.

    1h 5m

  2. DEC 6

    Mean Toronto librarians, Biznasty defends restaurant staff, the Canada Post Strike lingers and more

    This week, John and Warren talk about the ongoing Canada Post strike and the damage it's causing, both to Canadians and to the organization's brand, Paul Bissonnette steps up to defend Arizona restaurant staff and finds himself in a 6 on 1 brawl, Paul Krugman retiring from the NYT and how he'll be remembered, Toronto Public Library gets itself into hot water after a staffer refused to let a lost young girl use a phone to call her mother, journalist Taylor Lorenz makes a post apparently celebrating CEO killings and more.

    50 min

  3. NOV 22

    Jaguar's rebrand, Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson and BlueSky's big moment

    This week, John and Warren talk about the controversial rebrand from Jaguar, the reputational implications from the Jake Paul and Mike Tyson fight, including for Netflix, which had technical trouble serving its live audience, Space X's COO answering questions about government contracts and the move millions are making to social media platform BlueSky.

    48 min

  4. NOV 8

    US Presidential Election recap, RIP Mike Bullard and McDonalds' E. coli crisis

    In this 50th episode of the Reputation Town podcast, we do a breakdown of the US Presidential election, looking specifically at the elements of media relations, whether podcasts have eclipsed mainstream media, etc. We also discuss the complicated legacy of comedian and former late-night talk show host Mike Bullard, who recently died at the age of 67. And finally, we look at McDonalds' effective handling of its recent E. coli contamination crisis.

    52 min

  5. NOV 1

    Pre-election pod with special guest Molly McPherson

    With four days to go before the US Presidential Election, we're joined by our good friend Molly McPherson to discuss the presidential campaigns, each candidate's use of the media, the role podcasts will play in this year's election, the controversy around the 'garbage' comments and, finally, each of us gives our prediction of what we think will happen on Nov. 5th. Hope you enjoy this episode!

    49 min

  6. OCT 12

    Grading Kamala's media work, TD's $3B fine, Dave Grohl's side baby, Quantas subjects passengers to R-rated movie

    In this episode, we catch up on some stories from the past few weeks, including Dave Grohl's confession about having a baby outside his marriage, Samsung's apology for missing its earnings estimate, Quantas forces an entire plane full of passengers to watch an R-rated movie, TD is fined US$3 billion for failing to live up to its anti-money laundering requirements and the bulk of this episode (the latter half) is spent analyzing the media relations performance of presidential candidate Kamala Harris over the past few weeks. Hope you enjoy this episode of Reputation Town!

    58 min

  7. AUG 14

    Elon/Trump X chat, 900 CHML closes, bad PR for Disney, $18 mill of bonuses at the CBC

    This week, John and Warren talk about the negative PR impacting Disney after the allergy death of a guest, the viral Australian breakdancer at the Olympics, the Trump/Musk conversation on X, Kamala Harris's reluctance to do media interviews, $18 million of bonuses at the CBC, a Boeing project manager tries his hand at media relations and more. Hope you enjoy this episode!

    54 min

  8. JUL 31

    Fallout after the attempted assassination of Trump, Crowdstrike outage, Cdn soccer drone scandal and more

    This week, John and Warren talk about the drone/spying scandal facing the Canadian Olympic women's soccer team, the wrap-up of the LCBO strike, the astronauts that 'are not stranded' on the International Space Station, the startup company that spent $1.8 million on a domain name and our main topic of the week, the fallout in the wake of the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.

    58 min
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Two long-time communications practitioners talking about media relations, issues management and all things related to corporate reputation.

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  • Creator
    John Perenack and Warren Weeks
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2024
  • Episodes
    53
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2021 All rights reserved.
  • Show Website
    Reputation Town

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