Boeing CEO steps down

Plus, Chick-fil-A and antibiotics [View this email in your browser]( Boeing CEO steps down After a plethora of negative headlines in the last six months, Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun announced this week that [he would be stepping down]( amid reshuffling at the company. To put it lightly, this made a lot of headlines — and captured the public’s interest too — with more than 5,000 articles written about Calhoun alone and more than 100k engagements to those articles. The most engaging of these was the New York Times piece linked above. Again though, social media had a significant role to play in engagement levels, with several posts having high levels of interaction for publishers across platforms. [Bloomberg Business]( and [NPR]( both had Instagram posts with more than 10k engagements each, while [The Daily Mail]( had a TikTok post with 12k engagements. These engagements show that despite all the other noise on the internet, it’s still a significant moment when a CEO of a global company steps down, especially when the company has had the kind of year Boeing has had. Chick-fil-A is calling you to ‘Eat Mor Chickin’ — with antibiotics After a decade of its pledge to serve antibiotic-free chicken, Chick-fil-A announced it will begin reintroducing some antibiotics into its chicken later this spring, resulting in a flood of media coverage. In a [statement released last Thursday]( Chick-fil-A explained that the plan was to switch from the current No Antibiotics Ever (NAE) to No Antibiotics Important To Human Medicine (NAIHM). Although even with that clarification, the move has raised concerns with customers who have long regarded [Chick-fil-A as a healthier fast-food]( chain simply because of its focus on chicken over other meats. Local news outlets were the first to circulate the news, and have also had the most engaged stories over the last week. Atlanta’s [11 Alive]( earned nearly 1k engagements to its early reporting on Mar 22nd, and [CBS 17]( in Raleigh has the top story about the matter overall, having received 2.8k engagements. While there have been fewer social media posts about Chick-fil-A’s decision, some have captured high levels of public interest, with RapTV being the most notable. The [Instagram post]( has earned over 362k engagements alone, with the comment section overflowing with criticism and several questions about how this might affect the chain’s prices. NEWSWHIP FOR CROWDTANGLE USERS Learn how NewsWhip can help replicate the work you’re doing in CrowdTangle in our webinar tomorrow [Register→]( MONITOR AND MANAGE LIVE ISSUES How brands monitor and manage live issues with NewsWhip Spike [Read blog →]( REPORT: INFLUENCE THROUGH INSIGHT How comms leaders are bringing wider understanding to management decisions [Read report →]( 2024 ELECTION REPORT Our first report looking at early coverage of the US election [Read report →]( [Twitter icon]( [Website icon]( [LinkedIn icon]( Copyright (C) 2024 NewsWhip. All rights reserved. You're receiving this email because you opted in for the NewsWhip blog newsletter and updates. Our mailing address is: NewsWhip 42 Pearse Street Dublin, D02 YX88 Ireland Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe](