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PR and Journalism: How the Relationship Actually Works Now
In this New Media Age, less of our news comes from journalists and more of it is coming from public relations.
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Pope Francis: The Communications Strategy That Reset the Vatican
Pope Francis served as the 266th Bishop of Rome from March 2013 until his death in April 2025. He was the first Pope from the Americas, the first Jesuit Pope, the first non-European Pope in a thousand years — and the first Pope to reset Vatican communications for the digital era.
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Public Relations is as Important a tool in Politics as is Policy and Action
We reference a special edition Harris Publication aptly named American Presidents: The Greatest.
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AI Communications: The Mid-Market Playbook for Becoming the Answer
AI Communications is the discipline of becoming the answer inside ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. The 2026 playbook for mid-market companies, Citation Share, GEO, and the five plays that move the metric.
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Climate Change PR: How Advocates Reach the Public
70% of Americans now accept the science of climate change. The harder problem is moving belief into action — and that is a communications problem the climate movement has not yet solved.
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Making Data Work in B2B Marketing
Data has become the central organizing question in B2B marketing. Three operational disciplines separate the companies extracting value from the companies generating data without acting on it.
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The Communications Playbook for Public-Figure Addiction
Public figures who work through addiction face two parallel battles — the medical work of recovery, and the communications work of preventing the addiction from becoming the dominant frame the public remembers them by.
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The Catholic Church's Trust Deficit: Why Decades of Response Has Not Closed the Gap
Twenty-plus years of charters, commissions, summits, and apostolic journeys. The Catholic Church's institutional response to its abuse crisis is one of the most sustained in modern religious history. The trust deficit persists. Pew, Gallup, PRRI, and CARA explain why.
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The Fine Art of Wooing Two Conflicting Partners in PR
Businesses and the people who own them thrive due to relationships.
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The Modern Media Business Model
The four media business model architectures — advertising-supported free, subscription and membership, creator economy, and owned-channel-plus-owned-product — and the AI answer engine disruption that is restructuring all four right now.