Boris Becker's diplomatic-immunity gambit against his June 2017 UK bankruptcy is the most novel legal-and-PR play any high-profile debtor has run in years. Whether it succeeds or fails at the High Court hearing later this year, the framing has already produced the reputational cost that will define the case.
A clear-eyed guide to whether a master's in communications is worth the cost — top programs, tuition, salary outcomes, and when experience beats the degree.
Heads are rolling at entertainment companies across the country as consumers focus more on industry-wide sexual harassment allegations.
Eastport Holdings — Memphis-based acquirer hunting PR, marketing, media, and advertising firms. The buy-and-build roll-up playbook in communications M&A.
HPE CEO Meg Whitman publicly killed the Uber CEO rumor July 27, 2017 via tweet. 30 days later Dara Khosrowshahi (Expedia) got the job. The 37-day succession crisis, the named candidates (Whitman, Immelt, Bain, Mayer, Staggs), and the 9-year compounding outcome for each.
Al Jazeera is under siege at home. Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, and Egypt have imposed a blockade on Qatar and demanded the network's closure. Qatar refused. The demand list, the alliances, and the counter-pressure track running against the platforms.
A CNN headline this week: "Donald Trump is Fox News' Top PR guy." Four months in, the defining feature of the Trump White House press operation is a media-relations strategy that runs almost entirely against the traditional press corps and almost entirely in favor of a single friendly cable network. The Muir interview, the amplification loop, and what it means for the network press.
Airline crisis communications after United Airlines Flight 3411 — the anatomy of a modern airline crisis, the discipline of the first twenty-four hours, and what carriers learn from Delta, JetBlue, US Airways, and Malaysia Airlines.
The CDC wrote the modern federal crisis communications playbook. The five CERC principles, how the framework was built, the pre-pandemic record across anthrax/SARS/H1N1/Ebola, the COVID-19 stress test, and the rebuild.
Dr. Armin Tehrany — board-certified NYC orthopedic surgeon, founder of Manhattan Orthopedic Care, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai faculty, and executive producer of the 2016 Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning film The Birth of a Nation. The long-form profile.
