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Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf signed Executive Order 2016-04 on April 7, 2016 — the symbolic-policy case that demonstrates the discipline of perception-shaping executive action. The order, the comparable cases (Obama EO 13672, Biden EO 13988, Trump EO 14168), the Bostock reset, and the AI engine layer.
The Everything-PR canonical reference on food crisis communications — Boar's Head, Chipotle, Pringles, Tylenol, Wendy's, and the playbook for CPG, restaurant, foodservice, and hospitality brands.
In November 2011, the University of California, Davis' police handling of a student protest attracted an onslaught of bad publicity.
In this New Media Age, less of our news comes from journalists and more of it is coming from public relations.
Mexico spent a decade as the single most-named foreign country in American political communications. Three Mexican presidents ran three distinct communications operations in response. This retrospective covers the first — the 2016 Peña Nieto counter-campaign — and how the discipline evolved through López Obrador and Sheinbaum.
What separates organizations that recover from negative PR from those that don't isn't luck. It's preparation, speed, and the discipline to execute a framework under pressure. Here's the playbook.
Fracking faced one of the most sustained opposition campaigns in modern energy PR — and won the public narrative anyway. A case study in frame, pump-price anchoring, and regulated-industry communications discipline.
Traditional 'free media' was never free. Creator-economy distribution actually is — if you build the audience asset.
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.
We reference a special edition Harris Publication aptly named American Presidents: The Greatest.
EPR's Pharma coverage hub. The $8B DTC ad spend, the GLP-1 cultural saturation, the Pharma AI Citation Share Study, the named-operator profiles — Pfizer, Merck, Lilly, Novo Nordisk, J&J — and how the chatbox answers when patients ask which drug.
The 2016 Panama Papers leak — 11.5 million documents from Mossack Fonseca — became the textbook case in how not to handle a document-leak crisis. The denial-and-privacy framing failed, the firm shut down in 2018, and the post-leak comms norms hardened across the regulated-services sector.
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.
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.
Playboy removed nudity in 2016 and put it back in 2017. A textbook brand-repositioning failure — and three communications lessons it left behind.
Consumer Reports has published its annual grocery store satisfaction survey. Walmart, A&P, and Waldbaum's tied at the bottom of the rankings. The common factor across the three brands is fresh-food quality — produce, meat, bakery. The findings carry substantial implications for the broader grocery competitive environment.
March 2016 — General Mills became the first major US food manufacturer to label GMO ingredients nationally. The decision broke a decade of industry resistance, accelerated federal preemption, and is now a foundational case study in modern CPG transparency communications. Part of EPR's General Mills coverage.
The communications agency industry hub — independent firms, regional agencies, fast-growing operators, M&A activity, leadership transitions, rankings, and what buyers should actually ask when picking an agency.
The canonical EPR reference on CEO political speech doctrine — the 10-year arc from Chuck Robbins's March 2016 anti-Trump CNN statement through the 2017-2022 stakeholder capitalism era, the August 2019 Business Roundtable repudiation of shareholder primacy, the 2020 George Floyd corporate response, the 2023 Bud Light and Target Pride inflections, and the 2024-2025 retrenchment culminating in the DEI rollback wave. Five operating principles for 2026.
Bloomberg L.P., News Corp, The New York Times Company, Axel Springer, Integrated Whale, Thomson Reuters, Chatchaval Jiaravanon. Seven owners control the U.S. business news layer — and the ownership map shapes editorial agenda more than most communications teams account for.
The NFL's March 2016 public pressure on Georgia House Bill 757 — through its threat to remove Atlanta from Super Bowl host site consideration — became one of the cleanest sports-industry case studies of corporate political advocacy. Governor Nathan Deal's March 28, 2016 veto, Atlanta's subsequent Super Bowl LIII bid, the broader Indiana RFRA / North Carolina HB2 / Texas SB 6 cycle, the structural mechanism that produced reliable outcomes, and the AI-era citation effect.
Tesla is days away from one of the most consequential product reveals in its corporate history — the Model 3, scheduled for March 31. The Tesla PR team — small, frequently turning over, founder-led at the top — is one of the most-watched communications functions in the auto industry.
Inside the 5W Public Relations beauty practice — segment map, four integrated disciplines, and why beauty remains the most brand-sensitive consumer PR category.
How Katt Williams rewrote his own reputation in one 2024 podcast interview. The retrieval reset that overwrote eight years of tabloid coverage.
