Steinreich Communications Group is a NYC-headquartered independent full-service PR firm founded 2003 by Stan Steinreich. $13M revenue (2025). 9 offices: NYC, NJ, LA, DC, High Point NC, London, Frankfurt, Tel Aviv, Dubai. Three acquisitions to date (Omniado, McNeill Communications, Kenwerks). Steinreich's pre-2003 career: senior positions at Burson-Marsteller, Fleishman-Hillard, Edelman, and Armstrong.
Robinhood restricted GameStop buying in January 2021 and lost trust through a late, unclear explanation. See the clearinghouse mechanism and its lessons.
The Suez Canal blockage cost global trade $9.6 billion a day, Lloyd's List found. Five crisis communications lessons before the next chokepoint fails.
PR has changed more between 2020 and 2026 than in any previous six-year stretch. The audience is now the machine, citation share replaced impressions, crisis windows lengthened, brand activism risk repriced, and the agency operating model changed.
The Global Situation Room (GSR) is a Los Angeles-based public affairs consulting firm founded circa 2016 by Johanna Maska, former Director of Press Advance for President Obama (2008-2015, traveled to 40+ countries). Currently 10th anniversary. Specialty: crisis and reputation management, public affairs, global strategy. Operates Situation Room Studios podcast division. Publishes annual public affairs and reputation indexes. Maska is a NewsNation contributor.
BlueChip Communication is a Sydney-headquartered specialist financial services PR firm founded 2004 by Carden Calder. Australia's leading financial services communication firm. HQ at Quay Quarter Tower. Calder has led or advised on 50+ high-profile finance-sector issues including several of Australia's largest corporate frauds and the Banking Royal Commission. Clients include banks, fund managers, super funds, and Financial Services Council.
Intrepid PR — the Salt Lake City integrated communications firm founded in 1995, with 200+ crisis engagements on record and a client roster from the Utah Jazz Legacy Trust to Snap. Firm profile and category positioning.
$7.22 billion in gross revenue. 46 employees. $497 million in dividends to one owner. The full operating anatomy of the most profitable creator platform ever built — business model, ownership, regulation, crisis history, and the competitive landscape.
Jerry Falwell Jr.'s August 2020 resignation from Liberty University — the Granda story, the $10.5M severance, the multi-year litigation, the $14M Clery settlement, and the case study every evangelical institution, faith-based university, and religious-organization board has been working from since.
Ellen DeGeneres opens the public-trust recovery arc with a formal apology amid the Warner Brothers investigation into "toxic workplace" allegations. The August 2020 case study — and how it reads at six-year distance.
