The PRovoke Media Podcast

PAN CEO Phil Nardone On Making Diversity a Priority (Ep. 234)

In this episode of the PRovoke Podcast, PAN CEO Phil Nardone talks to PRovoke Media's Aarti Shah about the PR industry's failures when it come to diversity, inclusion and equity — and how his tech PR firm is accelerating its DE&I plans, even amid a global pandemic. 

NewsWhip's Paul Quigley on Misinformation around Black Lives Matters and Covid-19 (Episode 233)

In this episode of the PRovoke Podcast, we talk to NewsWhip CEO Paul Quigley about the way information — and misinformation — spreads, specifically around the Black Lives Matter movement and Covid-19. The data shows the Black Lives Matter movement was not actually divisive and misinformation thrives among those predisposed to believe it. 

Show Notes
Black Lives Matter Protests: Public Engagement And Corporate Responses 

How Coronavirus Misinformation Spreads 

Lockdown lessons from Arlo Brady & Alice Cartner-Morley (Ep. 232)

Freuds chief executive Arlo Brady and Republic founder Alice Cartner-Morley talk through the big themes to come out of their joint research into the hopes and fears of people in the US, the UK and Germany, regarding what life and work might look like on the other side of the Covid-19 pandemic, including the digital, economic, and social legacies of lockdown.

ESG in an era of societal and corporate challenges (Ep. 231)

Until this spring, the biggest driver of environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) was climate change. This episode of the PRovoke podcast looks at how business and capitalism are being redefined and reinvented, through the additional lenses of the Covid-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement. Maja Pawinska Sims is joined by sustainable business expert Matt Peacock, former group director of corporate affairs at Vodafone, and now a partner at strategic and creative agency Blurred, and Kate Higgins, legal director and corporate governance lead at law firm Mishcon de Reya.

Quartz's Isabella Steger (Ep. 230)

Quartz Asia deputy editor Isabella Steger — a veteran of covering unrest in Hong Kong — joins the PRovoke podcast to discuss the current outlook for journalism in the city, along with the impact of Covid-19 on her work, the future of work in the region and her fleeting PR career.  

How PR can move from words to action on support for PoC (Ep. 229)

At the start of the Black Lives Matter protests, Katy Howell, the CEO of social media agency Immediate Future, posted a moving video on LinkedIn about her own experience of systemic racism in the UK. She joins Maja Pawinska Sims on the PRovoke podcast to talk about how agencies in the creatives industries can move from pledges to solid action on supporting Black and ethnic minority employees. 

Overcoming the PR industry's mental health problem (Ep. 228)

Katie de Cozar, head of enterprise technology at B2B specialist agency CCgroup, PRovoke's EMEA Technology Agency of the Year, joins Maja Pawinska Sims on the podcast to talk about the PR industry's mental health crisis, particularly given the impact of the Covid-19 lockdown and the renewed focus on inclusive working environments.

Psychologist LaMisha Hill: ‘We Need to Stop Saying That Talking About Race Is Hard’ (Ep. 227)

This episode of the PRovoke Podcast features LaMisha Hill, PhD a licensed counseling psychologist and director of multicultural affairs for the office of diversity and outreach at the University of California San Francisco. Hill talks with Aarti Shah about the way organizations can build equitable and inclusive cultures. The conversation will also cover the implications of systematic racism and Covid-19 as both disproportionately affect Black communities.

Show Notes
6 Tools for Allyship

Video Interview  

Google's LaToya Drake on Google News Initiative and Inclusive Storytelling (Ep. 226)

This episode of the PRovoke Podcast features Google's LaToya Drake, a founding member of the Google News Initiative (GNI) and a champion for inclusive storytelling. In a conversation with Aarti Shah, Drake talks about how GNI emerged at Google and how the effort elevates underrepresented voices in media. Drake also discusses diversity in technology and communications — and how brands and agencies can work towards more inclusive storytelling in their own narratives.

Show Notes
Google News Initiative (GNI)
Google's Head of Product Inclusion Annie Jean-Baptiste
A video version of this interview 

 

 

 

George Coleman on why "Twitter is not the country" (Ep. 225)

George Coleman is co-CEO of Current Global, formed last year by the merger of two of Interpublic’s PR firms, US-based Current Marketing and Weber Shandwick unit Creation, which he founded. Coleman joins EMEA editor Maja Pawinska Sims on the PRovoke podcast to talk about how the PR industry can rise above unconscious bias and tribalism on social media, particularly in febrile political and social times, and why PR teams need input from a broader range of specialists to avoid “marketing by selfie stick,” including behavioural scientists.