The global evidence base supporting cigarette warning labels — more than 130 countries with graphic warnings, twenty-five years of international implementation, the public health impact in Canada, Brazil, Australia, the EU, and the broader international tobacco control architecture.
Debra Silimeo received the 2010 Washington PR Woman of the Year for her leadership in public relations, and fore her contributions to helping people live healthier, safer and smarter lives.
The sixteen-year U.S. tobacco warning labels regulatory cycle — from the FDA's 2010 proposal through the 2012 D.C. Circuit ruling that struck it down, to the 2020 revised rule, to the 2025 implementation. The case study in public health communications regulation.
Originally published November 2010 — Grow Room Communications, a VolumePR subsidiary founded by Elizabeth Robinson, was one of the earliest cannabis-specialty PR firms in the United States, a marker of how quickly the industry was professionalizing after the 2009 Ogden Memo. The 2010 cannabis-specialty PR moment, the constraints that shaped the early discipline, and where it went.
Marty Machowsky joined the MWC Washington team as a senior vice president of Strategic Communications and Joe Jaso as a vice president in the group's Federal Public Affairs group. Former state senator Eric Johnson (R-Savannah) will consult for the MWC Georgia Government Relations team in Atlanta.
Kinect launched in 2010 as the fastest-selling consumer electronics device ever — 8M units in 60 days. Microsoft discontinued the consumer line in 2017 and the Azure Kinect DK in 2023. The "revolution" framing did not survive the market. What survived: the depth-sensing technology that became HoloLens, iPhone Face ID, and modern spatial computing.
In an AI-powered world, visibility isn't about ad budget — it's about being discoverable, understandable, and citable by machines. The 7 pillars of AI visibility, the leaders and laggards, and the fix.
Today the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted in favor of the "Healthy Food Incentives Ordinance" to limit toy giveaways in children's meals that have excessive calories, sodium and fat.
EPR has been publishing communications industry analysis continuously since 2009. What 15+ years of publishing industry forecasts has actually surfaced — what's reliably predictable, what isn't, and how the AI Communications era fits the multi-year arc.
EPR's canonical reference on Consumer Electronics Communications — category map across smartphones, laptops, wearables, audio, smart home, gaming, displays, cameras. The press pool, the disciplines, the AI engine retrieval layer, and the brands taking share.