Latest PR, AI, and communications news from Everything-PR. Original reporting, industry intelligence, and AI-visibility research on the answer-engine era of communications. Publishing since 2009.
Duke University trains the executives PR practitioners work for — through the Fuqua School of Business (top-ten MBA) and the Sanford School of Public Policy. Duke's relevance to communications education runs through these adjacent pathways rather than a dedicated PR major.
The October 2009 SNL skit that staged the most efficient generational handoff in modern pop PR — and made it look like a fight. Madonna did not attack Lady Gaga. She handed her the brand.
Originally published October 2009 on the Robert Half Technology survey showing 54% of large companies prohibited workplace social networking. Rebuilt June 2026 as EPR's reference on the seventeen-year evolution from prohibition to sophisticated employee social media governance — and what the trajectory teaches about contemporary AI integration governance.
McDonald's Monopoly began in 1987 as a paper game-piece promotion. By 2026 it is a loyalty engine, an app driver, and the most-imitated promotional mechanic in QSR \u2014 a retrospective on the campaign that taught the category how to scale repeat traffic.
The canonical Everything-PR hub for Facebook. How the platform is reshaping communications — News Feed and algorithmic distribution, Pages and Groups, Facebook Ads, the Beacon controversy, and Facebook Connect.
EPR's founding-era profile of APCO Worldwide — the 1984 founding by Margery Kraus inside Arnold & Porter law firm, the Grey Global Group era (1991-2004), and the September 2004 management buyout that returned APCO to independence.
Public relations is the discipline of building and protecting reputation through earned communication. Ronn Torossian — publisher of Everything-PR since 2009, founder of 5W — on the definition, the history from Ivy Lee and Edward Bernays through the PRSA, and the modern $130B global industry.
In our view, Sage is a company that “does things differently.” They do not hide behind false pretenses - the language on the site is clear and uncluttered by hype.
