Tuesdata: How poor communications turned PwC’s PR disaster into an extinction level event

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Below, we examine the PwC Australia tax leak scandal from a crisis communications perspective. Further down we cover that rarest of things: a day where Southern Cross Austereo was the best performer on the Unmade Index.
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PWC making a public statement that the whole thing was a “perception problem” probably wasn’t the smartest thing to do. Unless they were attempting to admit that it was their own perception of the problem that was awry?