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Breaking Bad News

Breaking Bad News

by Jeff Hahn

★★★★★ 5.0 · 7 ratings on Amazon
🏆 Bestseller in #491,933 in Media & Communications

About This Book

With the first edition of Breaking Bad News, Jeff Hahn created an essential guide for surviving the first crucial hours of a reputation crisis. He synthesized thirty years of crisis communication experience into one model, helping brands navigate uncharted territory with tools proven to work whenever unexpected situations, malicious events, or head-scratching screwups threaten a reputation.

Now, in this second edition of Breaking Bad News, Jeff has added over a dozen case studies from the energy and power sector, airline industry, the food and beverage space, and more. The models Jeff presents are fully adaptable. His examples, immediately applicable.

When the spaghetti hits the fan, Breaking Bad News is the ultimate rapid response resource for crisis communication leaders.

Jeff Hahn

Jeff Hahn

Jeff Hahn grew up on a farm in northeast Iowa in the middle of the 1970s farm crisis. A tornado destroyed his family's farm, so he eventually left Iowa by joining the US Air Force. Jeff's career in public relations and crisis communications includes time at Lockheed, Motorola, and Hahn, his integrated marketing and PR firm.

The anthem of his farm years is John Mellencamp's "Rain on the Scarecrow," but his favorite song of all time is "Staying Alive" by the Bee Gees. Perhaps unsurprising for a crisis guy, Jeff's favorite movie is Apocalypse Now.

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