Ex-Age Editor-in-Chief to head new Icon Reputation and crisis business

Icon Reputation is the new arm of the award-winning Icon Agency, responding to the challenge of building and protecting reputation in the digital age.

Icon Reputation combines digital smarts and traditional expertise, with capacity to counter any crisis across every channel. It also provides strategic counsel and content creation capacity to enhance reputation and deepen influence.

Headed by Mark Forbes, former Editor-in-Chief of The Age and Walkley Award winning journalist, Icon Reputation is a full-service strategic communications and crisis management firm.

According to Icon Agency managing director Joanne Painter “the modern multi-platform media landscape demands a new approach to reputation management. Our integrated services help clients prepare for and manage reputational risks and assist in building reputation to enhance long-term value.

“Essentially, we’re reimagining issues and crisis communications for the digital age.”

Mark Forbes said the convergence of communications and technology placed reputational risk at an all-time high, with the capacity to shake the foundations of any organisation.

“The challenges of this digital age are also opportunities, providing the capacity to craft and amplify messages to enhance reputation, and protect it in a crisis,” Mark said.

Icon Reputation’s model combines unrivalled media experience and corporate insight with integrated digital capabilities across online reputation management, behavioural and data analytics, website development, social media and digital marketing.

Icon Reputation operates out of its offices in Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra, offering on-call reputational assistance across Australia and the region through our 77 global agency partners.

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