Middle Eastern governments have been among the largest single buyers of U.S. PR and lobbying services for more than a decade. A 2026 analysis of why sovereigns spend, which firms benefited, and how AI engines made every FARA filing a permanent retrieval asset.
An AI-native communications team redraws its roles. Staffing an AI-native team is mostly reassignment, not recruitment. The people are largely the right people. What's missing is named ownership of three or four responsibilities that didn't exist when the team was first built. Quick answer. Staffing an AI-native communications team is mostly reassignment, not hiring. Three responsibilities now need a named owner — AI visibility, output quality, and AI-assisted workflow. Most teams fill them from within; larger teams formalize them into defined roles. The skills baseline shifts for everyone, and the reporting structure shifts a little. It is a redraw, not a rebuild. Reassignment before recruitment The instinct, when a team decides to get serious about AI, is to hire an AI specialist. That's usually the wrong first move. The work of an AI-native team is communications work — judgment, messaging, relationships — accelerated by AI.
Stacy Ann launched Celeb PR Group — celebrity PR boutique competing with PMK*BNC, 42 West, BWR in LA. Press packages for actors, models, artists.
The fintech sector, despite its innovation, consistently misallocates PR budgets. This article explains how to correct this by focusing on impact over activity, prioritizing key announcements, and aligning public and investor communications for better ROI.
The PR industry has a measurement problem. Most firms report impressions, reach, media mentions, sentiment scores, share of voice, and advertising value equivalency. But almost none of these metrics measure what a PR firm actually produces. This article outlines the three metrics that actually measure PR: business outcome correlation, quality-weighted coverage, and audience-stakeholder-specific reach.
A communications team in 2026 runs on a stack of AI tools. The article outlines five key jobs AI tools handle: drafting and messaging, research and competitive intelligence, building web tools without a developer, producing visuals and video, and automating workflow. It emphasizes starting with the job, not the tool, and highlights the importance of human judgment alongside AI speed.
Manufacturing crisis communications runs on statutory clocks — OSHA 8/24-hour, CPSC §2064, NHTSA §30118, EPCRA/CERCLA, Reg FD, WARN — plus a unionized workforce, dealer channel, and community. The eight archetypes, the team, and the AI engine layer.
The first time a CEO asks a chief communications officer "do we show up in ChatGPT," the conversation that follows reveals more about the comms function than the question itself. The question is increasingly being asked. The answers vary in quality, in part because the discipline
Why the world's luxury hospitality and fashion brands are now real estate developers — and what that means for the communications work around the fastest-growing luxury real estate category.
How Compass, Anywhere, Douglas Elliman, and the broader U.S. residential brokerage tier are competing for the top-producing agents who actually move the revenue.