November 08, 2012
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"I just don’t think you can advertise your way out of a crisis. I think you have to earn people’s respect and trust. It’s what the university will do — it will regain the trust."

— Edelman president and CEO Richard Edelman, who is the subject of the upcoming book “Edelman and the Rise of Public Relations,” in a Q&A with the Chicago Tribune. Edelman discusses the agency’s work with Penn State University in the wake of the Sandusky scandal and shares his take on PR in the digital age. 

edelman agency digital Penn State
July 23, 2012
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imwithkanye: NCAA hands out punishments for Penn State in the wake of the Sandusky scandal: Serve four-year postseason banPay $60 million fineCut 10 scholarships this season and 20 scholarships for the following four yearsVacate all wins from 1998-2011, a total of 112 victories [Image: outside the stadium where Joe Paterno’s statue was removed.]

imwithkanye:

NCAA hands out punishments for Penn State in the wake of the Sandusky scandal:

Serve four-year postseason ban
Pay $60 million fine
Cut 10 scholarships this season and 20 scholarships for the following four years
Vacate all wins from 1998-2011, a total of 112 victories

[Image: outside the stadium where Joe Paterno’s statue was removed.]

Penn State
July 17, 2012
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thedailywhat: Debate has raged for months over whether the Joe Paterno statue outside Penn State’s Beaver Stadium should remain in the wake of increasingly damning revelations in the Sandusky abuse scandal. Now, just days after an independent report implicated Paterno in a high-level cover-up, a plane is flying above the university trailing a banner that threatens “TAKE THE STATUE DOWN OR WE WILL.” No word on who “We” might be, or how soon the statue must be removed before “We” return with an excavator. However, this has the potential to get interesting: The Penn State Board of Trustees issued a statement Sunday claiming that no decision had been made on whether the statue would be removed, and that a decision shouldn’t be expected anytime soon. [deadspin] To recover from the Sandusky scandal, Penn State University should significantly change the school’s culture, industry experts told PRWeek. Read the rest of the article here. 

thedailywhat:

Debate has raged for months over whether the Joe Paterno statue outside Penn State’s Beaver Stadium should remain in the wake of increasingly damning revelations in the Sandusky abuse scandal.

Now, just days after an independent report implicated Paterno in a high-level cover-up, a plane is flying above the university trailing a banner that threatens “TAKE THE STATUE DOWN OR WE WILL.”

No word on who “We” might be, or how soon the statue must be removed before “We” return with an excavator.

However, this has the potential to get interesting: The Penn State Board of Trustees issued a statement Sunday claiming that no decision had been made on whether the statue would be removed, and that a decision shouldn’t be expected anytime soon.

[deadspin]

To recover from the Sandusky scandal, Penn State University should significantly change the school’s culture, industry experts told PRWeek. Read the rest of the article here. 

(Source: thedailywhat)

Penn State
July 12, 2012
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"Our most saddening and sobering finding is the total disregard for the safety and welfare of Sandusky’s child victims. The most powerful men at Penn State failed to take any steps for 14 years to protect the children who Sandusky victimized. …In order to avoid the consequences of bad publicity, (officials at Penn State) repeatedly concealed critical facts relating to Sandusky’s child abuse from the authorities, the board of trustees, the Penn State community and the public at large."

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Former FBI director Louis Freeh’s investigative report on the sex abuse scandal involving Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.

(via The New York Times)

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