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As is to be expected in a busy industry, today's headline roundup is full of shifts in staffing and contracts around the public relations world.
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As is to be expected in a busy industry, today's headline roundup is full of shifts in staffing and contracts around the public relations world.

Rasky Baerlein no longer exists. The firm split in February 2017. Its founder Larry Rasky died in 2020. A retrospective on one of the most influential independent communications firms in the Northeast.

Tunisia's destination-tourism recovery from the June 2015 Sousse attack became one of the most-studied terror-affected tourism communications cases in modern travel PR. The hybrid recovery sequence, the trade-press primacy, and the four-year horizon now treated as baseline.

Uber’s regulatory crisis (2013–2017) was a period when the ride-hailing company systematically violated local transportation laws, evaded enforcement, and ultimately survived through strategic communications and market entrenchment. This article examines what this taught the PR industry.

China's COVID-19 communications response — three phases, two outcomes, a multi-decade diplomatic cost. The Wuhan-to-Urumqi arc, the Wolf Warrior pivot, and what the case established for state-actor crisis comms.

Discover how leading brands like Sephora, Apple and Airbnb transform influencer marketing from campaigns into core infrastructure for lasting competitive advantage.

$13.5B Omnicom-IPG deal. Golin + Ketchum merged. Porter Novelli into FleishmanHillard. Seven agency brands — 435 combined years — retired since 2018. Six networks → three.

Small pet brands are outpacing industry giants through niche marketing, authentic storytelling and direct customer relationships in the emotional pet market

Modern PR professionals face three recurring challenges — speed of information, managing conversation velocity, and transparency under pressure. The discipline of meeting them: monitoring, speed, substance.

Dosist's 2.5mg metered dose vape, clinical-white packaging, and Sleep/Calm/Bliss naming pulled cannabis into Well+Good and Goop. Wellness, not weed.
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