{"id":113957,"date":"2020-10-06T15:22:43","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T22:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/tesla-reportedly-eliminates-its-pr-department"},"modified":"2020-10-06T15:22:43","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T22:22:43","slug":"tesla-reportedly-eliminates-its-pr-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/tesla-reportedly-eliminates-its-pr-department","title":{"rendered":"Tesla reportedly eliminates its PR department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tesla-reportedly-eliminates-its-pr-department.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tesla apparently has a new strategy for dealing with journalists: Don\u2019t deal with them at all.<\/p>\n<p>The electric car giant has dissolved its global public relations team, leaving the press with no formal point of contact at the world\u2019s most valuable automaker, a new report says.<\/p>\n<p>Essentially every staffer who used to work in Tesla\u2019s PR office has either moved to a different position at the company or left altogether, according to electric vehicle <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2020\/10\/06\/tesla-dissolves-pr-department\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">industry blog Electrek<\/a>, which said the move to disband the department was confirmed \u201cat the highest level at Tesla.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla apparently has a new strategy for dealing with journalists: Don\u2019t deal with them at all. The electric car giant has dissolved its global public relations team, leaving the press with no formal point of contact at the world\u2019s most valuable automaker, a new report says. Essentially every staffer who used to work in Tesla\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}