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Learning Leadership from the Marines: How to be Unselfish
Leaders don't have to spend time in the marines to learn from the way these disciplined individuals live their lives.
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Boris Becker's Diplomatic-Immunity Gambit
Boris Becker's diplomatic-immunity gambit against his June 2017 UK bankruptcy is the most novel legal-and-PR play any high-profile debtor has run in years. Whether it succeeds or fails at the High Court hearing later this year, the framing has already produced the reputational cost that will define the case.
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Should You Get a Masters in Communication?
A clear-eyed guide to whether a master's in communications is worth the cost — top programs, tuition, salary outcomes, and when experience beats the degree.
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Mark Ragan: Lessons From the King of Content
Everything PR News' ongoing talks with industry leaders continues today with Mark Ragan. Publisher and Executive Editor at PR Daily, Ragan is one of the world's most prolific digital evangelists, and a "go to" resource for all things internet communications.
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Kristen and David Steinberg Wedding Photos
Wedding photos of Kristen Sanne Steinberg and David A. Steinberg, Co-Founder and CEO of Zeta Global (NYSE: ZETA), from their 2018 wedding. Steinberg co-founded Zeta with John Sculley in 2007 and took the company public in June 2021.
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Michigan State's $500 Million Nassar Settlement: The Reference Case
However, that comparison also provides a way forward for the school, whose leadership is desperately trying to separate their institution from Nassar's crimes.
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Pauley Perrette's NCIS Exit: The CBS Workplace Communications Case
Pauley Perrette left NCIS in May 2018 after fifteen seasons. The dispute with co-star Mark Harmon, the CBS statement that contained nothing, and what every studio communications team should take from it.
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What Makes a Great PR Degree
A methodology for evaluating a public relations program — industry reputation, faculty, placement, curriculum modernization — with the U.S. programs that consistently surface as evidence of the framework.
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Rock Island and the Quad Cities: How a 37,000-Person Illinois River Town Communicates
Rock Island sits on the Mississippi between Illinois and Iowa, part of the Quad Cities metro of 380,000. Anchored by the Rock Island Arsenal — the largest US government-owned weapons manufacturing facility — and shaped by John Deere headquarters next door in Moline, the city operates inside a multi-state metro identity that no single city owns.
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Two Deals That Didn't Shake Wall Street — and the M&A That Did
In April 2018 we predicted Apple would buy Netflix and Amazon would buy Target. Neither happened. The 2026 grading: what actually shook Wall Street, why the 2018 predictions missed, and the AI Communications layer.