scholarly journals Academics engaging through the media—Insights from creating a monthly column on crisis management

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Laufer

© 2020 Elsevier Inc. Universities increasingly expect academics to engage with external stakeholders. This includes providing media commentary. In this article I describe my experience writing a monthly column on Crisis Management in the New Zealand Herald, the most widely read newspaper in New Zealand with an average daily readership of over 460,000 people (New Zealand Herald, 2019). The article also describes the benefits of writing a newspaper column including educating the public about issues relating to Crisis Management such as managing Covid-19, creating a platform for enhancing collaboration between academics and Public Relations firms, and enhancing the reputation of both the academic and university. This article will benefit academics in the field of Public Relations who are interested in writing a newspaper column to engage through the media.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Laufer

© 2020 Elsevier Inc. Universities increasingly expect academics to engage with external stakeholders. This includes providing media commentary. In this article I describe my experience writing a monthly column on Crisis Management in the New Zealand Herald, the most widely read newspaper in New Zealand with an average daily readership of over 460,000 people (New Zealand Herald, 2019). The article also describes the benefits of writing a newspaper column including educating the public about issues relating to Crisis Management such as managing Covid-19, creating a platform for enhancing collaboration between academics and Public Relations firms, and enhancing the reputation of both the academic and university. This article will benefit academics in the field of Public Relations who are interested in writing a newspaper column to engage through the media.


2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 252
Author(s):  
Philip Cass

Review of: Politics and the Media, edited by Babak Bahador, Geoff Kemp, Kate McMillan and Chris Rudd. Auckland: Pearson, 2013. ISBN 978144255826A generaton after the capitalist roaders took over the New Zealand Labour Party, the country’s political landscape is bleak. As described in this new book, it is one in which no political party is interested in any ideology except staying in power, no party will do anything that might offend a focus group, PR hacks control policy, political party membership has all but disappeared, the public is almost totally disengaged and most of the media has neither the time, the skill nor the inclination to cover politics.


2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 86
Author(s):  
Narayana Mahendra Prastya

Tulisan ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis aktivitas hubungan media yang dilakukan oleh Universitas Islam Indonesia, saat kejadian Tragedi Diksar Mapala UII. Kejadian tersebut merupakan krisis karena tidak diduga, terjadi secara mendadak, dan menimbulkan gangguan pada aktivitas dan citra organisasi. Hubungan media adalah salah satu aktivitas yang penting dalam manajemen krisis, karena media massa mampu mempengaruhi persepsi masyarakat terhadap satu organisasi dalam krisis. Dalam situasi krisis sendiri, persepsi dapat menjadi lebih kuat daripada fakta. Batasan hubungan media dalam tulisan ini adalah dalam aspek penyediaan informasi yang terdiri dari : (1) kualitas narasumber organisasi dan (2) cara organisasi dalam membantu liputan media. Data penelitian ini diperoleh dengan mewawancarai wartawan dari media di Yogyakarta yang meliput Diksar Mapala UII. Hasilnya menunjukkan bahwa media membutuhkan narasumber pimpinan tertinggi universitas. Informasi yang diperoleh dari humas universitas dirasa masih kurang cukup. Dalam hal upaya organisasi membantu aktivitas liputan, UII dinilai masih kurang cepat dan kurang terbuka dalam memberikan informasi. The purpose of this article is to analyse the media relations activities by Islamic University of Indonesia (UII), related to crisis "Tragedi Diksar Mapala UII". This incident lead to crisis because it is unpredictable, happen suddenly, disturb the organizational activities, and make the organization's image being at risk. Media relations is one important activites in crisis management. It is because mass media could affect the public perception toward an organization. In crisis situation, perception could be stronger than the fact. The limitation of media relations in this article are information subsidies. Information subsidies consist of : (1) the quality of news sources that provided by the organization, and (2) how organization facilitate the news gathering process by the media. The data for this article is being collected from interview with journalist from the mass media in Yogyakarta. The results are media want the top management of the universities as the news sources. The information that being provided by public relations is not enough. The university also lack of quickness and lack of openess.


Author(s):  
Van Thi Hong Loan

The paper provides empirical evidence for the development of the theory of media agendasetting. The power of the media, according to the theory, has been changed in public relations in Vietnam. Public relations practitioners have power to shape media content as they desire. This research uncovers that public relations practitioners not only impact media agendas as the theory describes, but also do the job of journalists. While public relations practitioners in the West use framing and information subsidies to influence media agendas for the public, this study indicated that practitioners in Vietnam tend to be responsible for public relations editorials that are considered as the main duty of media people. The paper additionally explains the way Vietnamese journalists conduct news to underpin understanding of the characteristics of media relations in the country. This paper also presents a Tripolar model of corporate, media and public agendas which was designed based on the research data.


2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-38
Author(s):  
PUTRI REZA UMAMI ◽  
Kinkin Yuliaty Subarsa Putri

Abstract Management Issues in public relations has become an important part in government agencies in both the internal and external relations, if public relations help in facing a growing issue in a public relations liaison. General Directorate of PDAM Tirta Bhagasasi implementing issues management in maintaining the image of the demonstrations and reports which demands transparency capital funds for MBR program. But this concept is not optimal due to the lack of issue management system at PDAM Tirta Bhagasasi in anticipation of a growing issue in the community. This study with several theories: public relations, issues management, public relations concept, Issue and crisis management. With variable issues management. This variable has five dimensions and sixteen indicators. Research approach in quantitative, descriptive methods. Management issues by companies to identify, analyze and manage the various issues that come to the surface before the issue is widespread among the public. Parties should be able to do public relations strategic planning to make the corporation is able to analyze the issues, formulate policies, take action and decisions quickly. General Directorate of Legal Affairs and Public Relations principally PDAM Tirta Bhagasasi should be able to coordinate all forms of communication when issues develop. Provide information to the public by a written statement or a press conference. Issues management is also a medium for public relations to participate in management decisions. Public relations have an important role in the effective management of issues, especially in the strategic planning function and its relationship with the surrounding environment of the organization.   Keywords: issues management, crisis management, maintaining the image   Abstrak Manajemen Isu dalam public relations sudah menjadi bagian terpenting dalam instansi pemerintah baik dalam hubungan internal maupun eksternal, tidak dapat dipungkiri publicrelations membantu dalam menghadapi suatu isu yang berkembang dikarenakan seorang public relations menjadi penghubung dengan publik. Direktorat Umum PDAM Tirta Bhagasasi menerapkan manajemen isu dalam mempertahankan citra organisasi mengenai aksi demo dan pemberitaan yang menuntut adanya transparasi dana penyertaan modal untuk program Masyarakat Berpenghasilan Rendah (MBR). Penelitian ini menggunakan beberapa teori: public relations, manajemen isu, menggunakkan konsep public relations, Issue and crisis management. Dengan variabel manajemen isu. Variabel ini memiliki lima dimensi dan enam belas indikator.Pendekatan penelitian yang digunakan kuantitatif, metode deskriptif. Manajemen isu digunakan oleh perusahaan untuk mengidentifikasi, menganalisis dan mengelola berbagai isu yang muncul ke permukaan sebelum isu meluas dikalangan masyarakat. Pihak public relations harus bisa melakukan perencanaan strategis membuat korporasi mampu menganalisis isu, merumuskan kebijakan, mengambil tindakan dan keputusan secara cepat. Direktorat Umum terutama bidang Hukum dan Humas PDAM Tirta Bhagasasi harus dapat mengkoordinasi semua bentuk komunikasi ketika isu berkembang. Memberikan informasi kepada publik dengan pernyataan tertulis atau jumpa pers. Public relations memiliki peranan penting dalam mengefektifkan manajemen isu terutama dalam fungsi perencanaan strategi maupun hubungannya dengan lingkungan sekitar organisasi. Kata Kunci: manajemen isu, manajemen krisis, citra organisasi


2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 80
Author(s):  
Mukaromah Mukaromah ◽  
Amida Yusriana

<p>Mass media is one of the media publications to the public in the formation of the Image. Important positive images are formed to foster public trust. News in the newspaper media is still interesting to be appointed in an effort to build a positive image of educational institutions. In addition to targeting the masses of young people, higher education institutions also target parents who are still familiar with conventional media such as newspapers. The case study in this study was Dian Nuswantoro University (Udinus) and news in the Suara Merdeka newspaper. Suara Merdeka is interesting to be appointed because the local  central Java newspaper has amounts of printing and is still an alternative reading in the Central Java region where this segmentation is in line with Udinus segmentation which is domiciled in Semarang, Central Java.<br />This study aims to analyze the theme of news that often arises about the institution, the frequency of occurrence of coverage in certain periodizations. Furthermore, this can be observed how the reporting of a media that has the power to shape the image of the institution. The method used is quantitative content analysis, which describes how the contents of the media using thematic and physical recording units are analyzed using the concept of public relations about media and the formation of the image of the institution.<br /> <br />The result can be seen that there are 9 sections in Suara Merdeka which present Udinus related news, namely Semarang Metro rubric, Edukasia, Screen, Page 1, Business Economy, Around Young Tugu, Salatiga News, Youth Voice Expressions. Screen Rubric occupies the highest position in the news, which is 70.3%. For the<br />theme that is often reported, there are four types of reporting, namely news related to the world of academics (products), related to environmental responsibility (CSR), reporting related the environment and reporting related<br />to the activities of communicating the activities of the institution.</p><p> </p>


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (2) ◽  
pp. 226-235
Author(s):  
Kaka Mohammed Omer Kaka

The article is devoted to the formation of public relations organizations in Kurdistan-Iraq, the formation of their goals, objectives, functions and specialization, as well as the practice of PR in the Kurdish media, including the Rudaw media corporation. It shows the processes and methods of strategic planning of the content of Kurdish media corporations with the mandatory participation of PR departments. The article also analyzes the reasons for the shortcomings in the strategic planning of media content in the Kurdish media due to the neglecting of the role and tasks of public relations services.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-202
Author(s):  
Arsih Amalia Chandra Permata ◽  
Maulina Pia Wulandari ◽  
Rachmat Kriyantono

The aim to be achieved is to know the efforts of crisis management. The research was conducted at the University of Brawijaya in 2010-2019, based on the view of the Rector of the University of Brawijaya during his tenure, as well as a plan to deal with the crisis at Brawijaya University in 2020-2025. This evaluative study was conducted using a qualitative approach and in-depth interview methods. The informant interviewed by the Chancellor who served in the period 2010-2019, the head of UB's Public Relations. The results of this study will describe or construct in-depth interviews with research subjects so that they can provide a clear picture of Crisis Management in UB since 2010-2019. The method used in this research is indepth interviews (intensive interviews) or intensive interviews (intensive interviews) and most are not structured. To maintain data quality using checking with triangulation. The results showed that the crisis at the university which was classified specifically, had not been interpreted as a crisis in the body of the organization itself, the role of public relations was also more focused on fostering good relations with the media.


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