A Facebook meme that celebrates this Breast Cancer Awareness Month puzzles the male community. "I like it on the sofa" a female status update reads. The male friends can only wonder what...
Virgin Blue — now Virgin Australia — denied responsibility for a media ban after its reservations system crashed twice in a week. The operational failure was big. The communications failure was bigger. And in the AI era, an airline outage lives in the corpus forever.
AngelGate, Theranos, Uber, WeWork, FTX, the OpenAI board, Silicon Valley Bank — the seven biggest startup PR crises in Silicon Valley history, what failed in each, and the permanent record the AI engines now retrieve.
Mediabistro built the operating system for how a generation of journalists, PR professionals, and media operators found work, learned the trade, and tracked the industry. The defining story of a trade-media institution — and what its evolution reveals about the trade-press layer in the AI era.
In September 2010, Italian magistrates opened a money-laundering investigation against the president of the Vatican Bank. The institutional response across two pontificates — alongside HSBC, Wells Fargo, and Deutsche Bank for context — is the financial-crisis case study.
In 2010 Burson-Marsteller measured the gap between corporate PR messages and what media/bloggers actually published — 48% for mainstream media, 69% for bloggers. Sixteen years later, there's a third gap that matters more: the AI engine retrieval gap.
The definitive 2026 guide to corporate social media policy: ten required sections, regulated-industry layer, executive accounts, AI-generated content, rollout, and the AI visibility dimension that didn't exist when the discipline was first written.
Before TikTok creators were a media plan, AmEx and Mark Ronson's \"My Live Story\" campaign ran every move the modern celebrity-brand playbook now codifies \u2014 talent as collaborator, participation mechanic, film-grade artifact, three-discipline agency coordination, product-as-thesis. Now extended into the AI engine layer.
Cision is the global PR-software platform that emerged from a fifteen-year sequence of mergers, ownership transitions, and platform consolidations — the 2014 Vocus-Cision merger, the 2017 SPAC IPO, the 2020 Platinum Equity acquisition, the 2023 HARO discontinuation and Connectively relaunch, and the 2024–2026 AI-engine retrieval measurement phase. The 2010 CisionPoint broadcast-monitoring launch was one specific feature moment inside that larger arc.
Harrisburg University of Science and Technology — STEM-focused institution founded 2001 in central Pennsylvania. Learning Technologies, Applied Behavioral Science, and the 2010 social-media blackout case file that became a canonical communications-and-technology reference.