Crisis Communication and Crisis Management Planning, Training, and Consulting Services

About Us

Furlow Communications, LLC specializes in helping clients with serious communications issues. These can be immediate (product recall, wrongful death, litigation) or long-term (land use, corporate reputation). We are not a full-service public relations firm and do not accept marketing or publicity assignments. With experience as journalists, corporate spokespersons and advisers to hundreds of clients, our strengths include the ability to:

Size up a situation quickly and develop a communications strategy
Understand how journalists think and are likely to react
Write effective statements fast
Prepare corporate spokespersons to face the media on short notice during a crisis
Serve as spokesperson or news media liaison
Train executives, public officials or professionals to handle interviews in both positive and negative situations

Bill Furlow

Bill founded Furlow Communications, LLC in 1995 after spending 25 years working for daily newspapers, primarily the Los Angeles Times. He became the premier crisis communications consultant in Orange County, California, and one of the best-known in the Los Angeles region. Seeking a lifestyle change, he and his wife Davilynn Furlow returned to their Southern roots in 2005 and moved to Natchez, Mississippi. Among the Furlows’ clients in the South have been several public officials or communities dealing with potentially racially charged issues.

Davilynn Furlow

Davilynn joined Furlow Communications, LLC in 2007. Prior to that, she spent 35 years working in the newspaper industry, including 18 years with the Los Angeles Times, where she held a variety of editorial positions. Along with working for a number of metropolitan dailies, she was editor-in-chief of a chain of community newspapers and started her own business in Natchez. She has an in-depth understanding of journalists working for the largest and smallest American newspapers.