The recent College Admissions Scandal has made headlines around the country after powerful business executives and well-known celebrities were charged with fraud for their *alleged* attempts to cheat their kids’ way into respected schools. Speaking with CNN on the matter, Red Banyan’s Evan Nierman *gave...
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The embattled “Empire” star Jussie Smollett is now facing a felony charge for allegedly staging a hate crime against himself. In the meantime, the show’s producers recently announced that the actor will not be not be featured in this season’s remaining two episodes. Will this...
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So far, 2018 has been a very successful year for Red Banyan, and we are looking forward to even more growth and success in the coming year with the opening of our new office in Atlanta, Georgia. Red Banyan’s Director of Media Strategy Kelcey Kintner...
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Red Banyan’s President Evan Nierman sat down with The Wrap and other crisis management experts to discuss Louis C.K.’s surprise return to comedy, following allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior in the wake of #MeToo. Some say that Louis C.K. should have to wait longer for...
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Since Harvey Weinstein, more than 70 high-profile male executives and celebrities have been publicly accused of sexual misconduct. As Lucia Graves of The Guardian notes in her recent piece titled “How Famous Men Toppled by #MeToo Plot Their Comeback,” some of these men are now contemplating ways...
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If you are planning on getting your afternoon coffee fix at Starbucks today, you should hurry up. The cafe chain is closing its stores nationwide starting between 1-2 p.m. today for four hours in order to put nearly 175,000 of its U.S. employees through racial...
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Manhattan lawyer, Aaron Schlossberg, has made national news recently after being recorded arguing with a sandwich shop manager and making anti-Latino comments because some of the employees were speaking Spanish. “Your staff is speaking Spanish to customers when they should be speaking English,” the attorney...
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Miami’s Christopher Columbus High School prom torpedoed into a PR crisis when a caged tiger was wheeled into the center of the room to entertain the students. The “Welcome to the Jungle” themed spectacle didn’t end there. Other surprising animals in attendance included birds, a...
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Can sexual harassers redeem themselves and make a career comeback? And if they can, what should the path to public forgiveness look like for those accused of inappropriate behavior? This was the topic of CNN’s Headline News during Carol Costello’s show Across America last week featuring crisis PR...
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Facebook recently found itself in the middle of a major public relations crisis after news broke that the private information of more than 50 million of its users was harvested and used by data mining firm Cambridge Analytica. Following the scandalous revelations, Facebook’s stock dropped...
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