The PR Week: 6.12.2025 - Josh Earnest, United Airlines

This week’s guest on The PR Week podcast is Josh Earnest, former White House communications director and EVP of communications and advertising at United Airlines.

He talks about a wide range of topics and issues, such as his priorities leading earned and paid media at a major international carrier, the challenges of messaging for critical topics like airline safety and issues at Newark Liberty International Airport and next week’s Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.

Plus the biggest marketing and communications news of the week, from Reddit naming its first chief communications officer

to WPP CEO Mark Read’s decision to step down to the results of the wide-ranging Mars review.

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