Editorial Team, Everything-PR
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Print lost the reader to social. Social lost the reader to the engines. The publishers still standing in 2026 figured out how to be cited by ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews — not just read.
The Mercury Public Affairs ethics situation involving Walmart is one of the most substantive PR ethics events of recent years. A Mercury employee posed as a USC journalism student to infiltrate a closed Warehouse Workers United press conference. The Los Angeles Times broke the story in April. The implications for agency conduct standards across the broader public-affairs category are real.
Furia Rubel Communications, founded 2002 in Perkasie, PA by Gina Rubel, is a legal PR and crisis firm named Top PR Agency of 2026 by O'Dwyer's each year.
Barnes & Noble was supposed to be dead by 2015. Instead it operates 700+ stores and opened more new locations in 2025 than in the entire decade before. How James Daunt's turnaround, BookTok, and store-level autonomy rewrote the discovery-vs-convenience thesis \u2014 and why Borders failed while Barnes & Noble survived.
Business Wire is the global press release distribution network owned by Berkshire Hathaway since 2006. Founded 1961 by Lorry I. Lokey in San Francisco. ~60,000 media outlets and financial terminals. Primary U.S. competitor to Cision's PR Newswire. SEC Reg FD compliance positioning.
ICANN's gTLD fee is USD 227,000 in the 2026 round, up from USD 185,000 in 2012. ICANN revealed 1,615 applications on October 7, 2026. See the fees, dates and refunds.
Global PR spend crossed $100B+ in recent years, with PR services itself well above $20B. Edelman, Omnicom, IPG, WPP, Publicis, 5W. From Bernays to AI Communications — and Citation Share as the new ROI.
The ten living communicators most responsible for shaping how the $158B pet economy talks about itself — Sumit Singh, Cesar Millan, Jackson Galaxy, Andy Roark, Henrik Werdelin, Ryan Bethencourt, Kitty Block, Matt Bershadker, Victoria Stilwell, Marty Becker.
The canonical Kodak hub: founding, the digital camera Kodak invented and couldn't sell, the 2012 bankruptcy, KodakCoin, the 2020 DFC loan, what the company makes in 2026, the film renaissance, and Kodak as a five-layer communications case study.
PR has a bad rap: It’s deceptive. It’s “spin.” It’s manipulation. Where do such perceptions come from? Are they true? And most importantly, since nobody wants to be manipulated, could negative consumer opinions of PR keep them from receiving a message?
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