Stories and Strategies Podcast Episode 80 Guest: Megan Dougherty Published January 22, 2023 Listen to this episode Doug Downs (00:05): Elias St. Elmo Lewis was an American advertising advocate in the late 19th century when he was still a young man in his twenties. He firmly believed in pursuing new scientific principles. In 1898, he …
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Stories and Strategies Podcast Episode 79 Guests: Emma Levine, PhD and Maurice Schweitzer, PhD Published January 8, 2023 Listen to this episode Doug Downs (00:09): In the 2009 RomCom, The Invention of Lying, life for Jennifer Garner and Rickey Gervais is an alternative reality world where lying doesn’t exist. They’re on a date at a …
Stories and Strategies Podcast Episode 1 Guest, Jim Rudolph, JGR Communications Published May 10, 2020 Listen to this episode Doug Downs (00:00): Does anyone really need professional communications? The average adult speaks roughly 16,000 words per day. 16,000. We’re pretty good at it. So why do we need to pay someone to communicate and what …
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Stories and Strategies Podcast Episode 3 Guest, Ben Morgan, Center for Crisis Communication Published May 18, 2020 Listen to this episode Doug Downs (00:00): In February, 2020, I had the opportunity to sit with Ben Morgan from the Center for Crisis and Risk Communications. Now, it may seem unfathomable just a few months later to …
Stories and Strategies Podcast Episode 12 Guest, Professor Candice Edrington, High Point University, South Carolina Published July 19, 2020 Listen to this episode Doug Downs (00:00): Alicia Garza was at a gathering with friends in July, 2013 when the verdict from a trial that had captured the attention of so many was handed down. George …
Stories and Strategies Podcast Episode 17 Guest, Dr Steven Joordens, University of Toronto Scarborough Campus Published August 23, 2020 Listen to this episode Doug Downs (00:03): As you know, we often play sound effects or music off the top of this podcast, a scene setter or a grabber. Today’s episode is about how the human …
Stories and Strategies Podcast Episode 35 Guest, Alex Malouf Published January 10, 2021 Listen to this episode Doug Downs (00:09): Last summer, author JK Rowling tweeted some opinions that were understandably received as transphobic. The backlash was immediate and substantial on social media with even celebrities, often the victims of cancel culture themselves. Joining the …
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Stories and Strategies Podcast Episode 52 Guest, Shawna Bruce, Bruce and Associates Published May 2, 2021 Listen to this episode Airline nat sound (00:02): Come on. Doug Downs (00:04): The airline industry is one that definitely prepares for crises, but not this kind. In spring of 2017, after boarding a plane in Chicago, United Airlines …
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Stories and Strategies Podcast Episode 59 Guest, Alee Opuiyo, Dynamic Public Relations Published April 3, 2022 Listen to this episode Chris Rock (00:01): He can’t win. He is praying that Will Smith wins. It’s like, please, Lord Jada, I love you. GI Jane two. Can’t wait to see it. All right. It’s jealous. That was …
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Stories and Strategies Podcast Episode 59 Guest, TJ Winick Published November 13, 2022 Listen to this episode Doug Downs (00:09): In October, 2017, actor Kevin Spacey was right where he wanted to be. Stage 33 on the CBS Television City law in Los Angeles. Participating in a recording of the 50th anniversary of the Carol …
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