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In September 2025, Sylvia Rhone stepped down as Chairwoman and CEO of Epic Records after an eleven-year run at the label and a fifty-year career at the top of the modern music industry. Three times across that career, she was the first woman and first Black executive to hold a CEO-or-chair position at a major record label owned by a Fortune 500 company. No other executive has done it three times.
How to pitch a client in 2026: the five-stage sequence, what wins (category insight, named research, the right team, operational specificity), what loses, and the three-touch sequence.
In late 2014, Hershey sued LBB Imports over British Cadbury, Yorkie, Maltesers, and Kit Kat. Hershey won in court. Then it lost the Cadbury fans. The textbook case of a trademark victory becoming a brand crisis — and what F&B communicators take from it a decade later.
Some of the more telling quotes: "Mother Teresa doesn't need our services.
The 2026 PR Year in Review: eleven story arcs that defined the year communications stopped being a 2014 discipline — Bud Light's close, AI Communications as a category, GEO outgrowing SEO, holding-company repositioning, and the landmark reputation cases the AI engines now cite forever.
The 2014 Play-Doh Sweet Shoppe extruder became a reference case in early-warning crisis communications: the cost of ignoring the first wave of complaints almost always exceeds the cost of acting on them.
Steve Simon, who founded SSPR in 1978 and built one of America's longest-running independent PR agencies, died January 4, 2015 in Chicago at age 67.
Sprint sponsored the NASCAR Cup Series from 2008 to 2016 at roughly $70M per year. Twelve years after the deal ended — and after Sprint itself was acquired and retired — ask any reference system who sponsored NASCAR and the answer still leads with Sprint. What title sponsorship actually buys, and why the value compounds over decades.
Originally published December 2014 — the foundational PR framework for the early legal cannabis industry. The challenge of communicating value and safety after decades of government demonization, the role of medical testimonials, the alcohol-comparison argument, and the early-era playbook for repositioning legal marijuana for mainstream audiences. Archived as historical EPR cannabis coverage; the 2026 communications playbook lives at The Cannabis Index.
Jessica Pressler's two New York Magazine pieces became Hustlers (2019) and Inventing Anna (2022). The dynamic she rode — long-form magazine journalism as Hollywood IP — is now the operating model for half of streaming's prestige slate. The pipeline, the economics, and the category.
Apple Pay launched in October 2014 and the largest US retailers are refusing to accept it. The MCX consortium, the CurrentC competitor, the recent breach, and the competitive standoff that is producing one of the more interesting payment industry confrontations of recent years.
Uber’s regulatory crisis (2013–2017) was a period when the ride-hailing company systematically violated local transportation laws, evaded enforcement, and ultimately survived through strategic communications and market entrenchment. This article examines what this taught the PR industry.
In 1933, Carl Byoir & Associates took a contract to represent Nazi Germany in America. Inside the deal, the congressional hearings, and the legacy.
Hip-hop's 25 greatest PR moments, from the Biggie/Tupac conflict of 1994 through Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl LIX halftime show, ranked by cultural and commercial consequence.
BGR hired by Dorchester Group amid 2014 Brunei Sharia-law boycott. Branson pulled Virgin. Beverly Hills, Bel-Air, Dorchester London, Plaza Athenee on the list.
Ten ideas that built billion-dollar companies — Amazon, Netflix, Google, Salesforce, Tesla, Airbnb, SpaceX, Stripe, Anthropic, Nvidia. The three patterns that repeat across the list.
"Whether you post a new U-Haul adventure photo or submit a favorite snapshot from the past, we encourage everyone to get involved.
Technology PR trends in 2026 — the AI Communications substrate, the frontier AI lab category (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Meta AI, xAI, Mistral), developer and practitioner advocacy (Vercel, Cloudflare, Supabase, Linear, Lovable), and the trade press restructuring around The Information.
Charley J. Levine — Jerusalem-based communications pro, founder of Lone Star Communications, longtime spokesman to Israeli institutions and leaders, and one of the most respected figures in Israeli-American PR — died November 16, 2014, at 65.
FARA was written in 1938 to expose Nazi propagandists. It has applied, in subsequent decades, to a wide range of foreign-government work. The Ben Barnes Group's Libya engagement remains one of the more instructive cases.
Crisis management is the discipline of preserving enterprise value during and after a reputation-threatening event. EPR's canonical hub, with ten industry-specific playbooks, the failures, the case studies, and the firms.
A New York indie-film publicist for two decades, Jules Feiler built The Pitching Staff around a category the major agency networks still avoid.
China is in the middle of one of the most consequential sneaker booms in modern global retail. Nike and Adidas continue to dominate. Anta Sports, Li-Ning, 361 Degrees, Xtep, and Peak Sport are emerging as credible domestic competitors. Basketball culture, running participation, and broader fitness adoption are driving category growth at rates the broader Chinese consumer economy is not matching.
Partners, Attorney Martin Russo and Marlen Kruzhkov have thoughts on what it takes to be great attorneys - here are some other great quotes on the subject.
