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Donald MacIntyre is a financial journalist and communications executive with over three decades of experience across Asia.
He served as a financial editor at Bloomberg Tokyo, Tokyo Correspondent and Seoul Bureau Chief for Time magazine, before being invited by Professor Gi-Wook Shin — founding director of the Korea Program at Stanford University’s Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center — to serve as a Visiting Fellow in Korean Studies in 2006–2007.
He subsequently led communications at Shinsei Bank in Tokyo and spent a decade at Standard Chartered Bank as Head of Communications for retail and transaction banking across Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. He is the co-founder of Orbis Leadership.
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May 21, 2026 ∙ 5 min
“No Comment.” Why It’s the Last Resort — Not the Default
"No comment."
As a journalist working in Korea and Japan, I hated hearing it. Later, when I was running communications teams across Asia, I didn't want the executives I advised to say it either.
The media asks a tough question. The company either cannot answer or does not want to. And so the default position is to say nothing and wait for the story to pass.
It is tempting to frame this as a Korean — or broader Asian — instinct. There is some truth to that...
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Jan 21, 2025 ∙ 2 min
Crisis Communications Just Got a Lot Harder
"Protecting Your Brand in the Deepfake Era" It’s every company’s worst nightmare: The CEO loses their temper at a press conference,...
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