The Vatican's communications operation is one of the longest-running and most disciplined institutional press systems in the world. The apparatus, the multilingual publishing surface, the Pope as spokesperson singularity, the crisis track record, and the digital transition through 2015.
Burning Man built one of the world's most recognizable brands without buying a single ad — through governance, ritual, restriction, and community enforcement. The full case study on what every modern communicator, marketer, and brand-builder can learn from it.
SeaWorld ran 30-second spots while #AskSeaWorld was being overrun by activists. The phase where the corpus problem became permanent.
A crisis communications case study of the July 2015 Ashley Madison data breach: The Impact Team, Avid Life Media, the Levick engagement, and the brand-promise problem at the center of the response.
The July 2015 MDC Partners and Hain Celestial governance scrutiny period became a reference case in holding-company governance crisis communications. The subsidiary-brand insulation problem, the Nadal and Simon disclosures, and what holding-company governance comms hardened into.
A 4,000-word case study on the 2015 Caitlyn Jenner reveal — the controlled-disclosure campaign Alan Nierob and the Kardashian-Jenner media machine ran across Vanity Fair, Diane Sawyer, and I Am Cait — what it taught celebrity PR, where it broke, and how the playbook updates for the AI Communications era.
The financial services PR firms running the deal sheets behind most of the year's largest M&A, IPO, activist defense, and restructuring transactions. Sard Verbinnen, Joele Frank, ICR, FTI Consulting Strategic Communications, FGS Global, Brunswick, Kekst CNC, Prosek, and the senior bench.
Sard Verbinnen & Co is one of the most influential firms in the U.S. corporate crisis and special situations market. Founded 1992 by George Sard and Paul Verbinnen. Now part of FGS Global, the KKR-majority-owned strategic communications platform.
Sitrick And Company — the Los Angeles-based crisis communications firm founded by Michael Sitrick in 1989. The roster, the methodology, the book that codified it, and the firm's place in the modern crisis market.
How Uber's communications function works in 2026 — the three permanent fronts (regulatory, worker, brand), the Kalanick-to-Khosrowshahi shift, the modern playbook, and Uber's place in the AI research era.
