Stories and Strategies Podcast Episode 84 Guest: Tonia Ries, Executive Director, Thought Leadership, Edelman Trust Institute Published March 19, 2023 Listen to this episode Doug Downs (00:02): Imagine you and I were talking with one another right now on a video conference call using Zoom or Teams or Google meets. We’re meeting for the first …
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Stories and Strategies Podcast Episode 83 Guest: Nick Enfield, BA (Hons) (ANU), PhD (Melbourne), FAHA FASSA FRSN Published March 5, 2023 Listen to this episode Bob Newhart (00:03): Hello Doug Downs (00:06): Comedian Bob Newhart was always a master at his craft. One skill he learned deliberately was the ability to stammer and use verbal …
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Stories and Strategies Podcast Episode 82 Guest: Allison Carter Published February 19, 2023 Listen to this episode Doug Downs (00:11): The concept of artificial intelligence has always been good. Hollywood plot stuff from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 Space Odyssey to James Cameron’s the Terminator. It’s 1984, A cyborg sent back in time from the year 2029, …
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Stories and Strategies Podcast Episode 81 Guest: Kayley Hamilton Published February 5, 2023 Listen to this episode Doug Downs (00:05): Like so many others in public relations and marketing. My own career started as a reporter, a journalist, and like any other journalist, I have my list of celebrities and celebrity politicians that I’ve interviewed, …
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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 …
