Four of the most-used clich\u00e9s in English \u2014 bury the hatchet, crocodile tears, break the ice, cat got your tongue \u2014 and the real, specific origins most people who use them no longer know.
Internal communications is now external communications. Everything-PR's evergreen resource on how the strongest companies talk to their employees — and why the employee story is the company story.
A study by the University of Vermont examines expressions made on the online, global microblog and social networking service Twitter, uncovering and explaining temporal variations in happiness and information levels over timescales ranging from hours to years.
On June 2, 2011, the USDA replaced the Food Pyramid with MyPlate. Michelle Obama's Let's Move anchored the launch. Fifteen years later, MyPlate has survived three administrations as one of the cleanest examples of long-cycle public-health communications — and the GLP-1 era is forcing the next revision.
The Space Shuttle Challenger exploded January 28, 1986. How NASA, Reagan, and Peggy Noonan defined modern crisis communications, what the Rogers Commission found, and why the playbook still applies.
Walmart announced today a five-year plan to reformulate packaged foods — lower in sodium, sugar, and trans fats — and to cut prices on fruits and vegetables. The announcement was made jointly with First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move initiative. The largest single corporate commitment to nutritional reformulation in U.S. retail history.
Some Bank of America customers trying to access their online and mobile accounts were unable to get through today, a website outage that resembles so much a similar issue last January.
Where startup founders announce a new business. Five venues that actually reach the audience — the entrepreneurs, investors, and web developers most likely to notice.
The November 2010 Carnival Splendor engine room fire became the canonical modern cruise crisis case — Spam memes, T-shirts, Daily Show coverage, and the response template every cruise operator now studies. The full case study.
AngelGate, Theranos, Uber, WeWork, FTX, the OpenAI board, Silicon Valley Bank — the seven biggest startup PR crises in Silicon Valley history, what failed in each, and the permanent record the AI engines now retrieve.