PROTECTING AND RESTORING REPUTATIONS
JHA has a proven track record in advising businesses, sports stars, celebrities and high-end private clients on how to best to deal with the media when it comes to crisis management.
Unlike traditional PR companies, JHA uses its experience of placing hard hitting news stories into the media to understand how to keep similar stories away from the headlines.
JHA’s network of contacts and daily dealings with news organisations means that it has an inside track on how the media landscape is working and thinking and what action is appropriate and effective at a particular time.
If required, JHA can step in to act as a spokesman for all media enquiries and issue press statements and briefings where appropriate.
For organisations or individuals facing upcoming court cases or employment tribunals, JHA can give advice on how the hearings are likely to play out in the media so that informed commercial decisions can be made.
And if events have already turned sour, JHA is an expert in turning it around. Rather than hiding away, we help redress the balance and, where possible, turn bad experiences into positive PR opportunities. Because we are in tune with what interests the media we can help re-shape the agenda.
HOW WE WORK
UNDERSTANDING THE PROBLEM
Everyone trades on their good reputation, be they individuals or businesses. If anyone finds themselves in the sights of the media it is essential that they quickly access experienced and well-connected crisis management .
JHA offers high level reputation crisis media management to businesses and individuals who finds themselves in an unwanted media storm.
We quickly get to know our clients and understand exactly what has happened to allow them to safely and effectively re-shape the narrative. Our understanding of the media landscape and how journalists think means we can help to alleviate our clients' problems.
JHA can take control to help prevent stories from being published or broadcast altogether, turn negative publicity into positive PR or limit any ongoing reputational damage.
WORKING WITH LAW FIRMS
Sometimes when an unwanted media enquiry arrives it is inevitable that legal advice is required. In fact, many of JHA's crisis management clients come from reccommendations made by lawyers.
JHA frequently works with law firms to create joint legal and media startegies to help prevent publication or broadcast of unfair stories.
This two-pronged approach can be particularly effective in helping to explain to the media how they may have misinterpreted particular information.
Within this strategy, JHA is often able to pick up the phone to the individual journalist and organisation and make representations that calm rather than inflame the situation.
Our understanding of the media landscape is key.