November 2016: German prosecutors opened a criminal hate-speech investigation into Mark Zuckerberg and senior Facebook executives. Nine years later, the case reads as the structural origin of NetzDG and the EU Digital Services Act — the European platform-liability regime now governing every major platform in the bloc.
Public relations consulting is widely known of in a general sense, but not many people know what these consultants do.
November 2016: the New York Times apologized to readers for its election coverage. The reverse-angle case on how the NYT, Washington Post, CNN, and the broader legacy press handled the Trump era. The audience economics inversion, the subscription surge, and the structural reset of legacy political journalism.
Ravi Sawhney called it in November 2016: bold positioning beats broad appeal. A decade later, corporate America has extracted the lesson in three operational moves — even from boardrooms that publicly distanced themselves from the candidate. The branding-strategy case.
Non-GMO foods are becoming more popular in markets and groceries around the country.
PepsiCo announced its 2025 Sustainability Plan in October 2016 under Indra Nooyi. The 2025 deadline has passed. The plan has been replaced by pep+. The 10-year retrospective on what worked, what shifted, and what corporate sustainability communications looks like under AI engine retrieval scrutiny.
The Pentagon's public affairs budget runs $600M to $1.4B annually. The A-tier contractors (DDB, VMLY&R, Wunderman Thompson), B-tier specialist communications firms (Edelman, Burson, Weber Shandwick, Brunswick, Teneo federal practices), and C-tier defense-specialist boutiques (Sayres, McBee, Cassidy, S-3 Group, Vogel Group).
Muck Rack reports on their website that they are the easiest way to contact journalists and bloggers with a story for your organization or PR clients.
City branding in 2026 — what it does, what's changed since Carrollton, Texas issued its 2016 RFP, and the five canonical case studies (Las Vegas, Detroit, Austin, Tulsa, Reykjavik) every modern municipal-branding engagement still references.
The United Nations created an uproar when it named DC Comics' Amazon Princess "Wonder Woman" a "special ambassador" in honor of the character's 75 th birthday.