Crisis communication: An insurance against reputation damage
Accidents, labor disruptions, financial crisis, news stories, class actions, etc. A multiplicity of more or less serious reasons may lead to negative media coverage for a company, whatever its branch of activity, its size, its location and its reputation.
The risk is even higher now because, with the advent of digital technologies and new media, anyone who possesses a smartphone can become a field reporter capable, through social media, of giving national or even international visibility to an event that would otherwise have remained ignored or, at worst, confined to a local scope.