John W. Hill (1890–1977) founded Hill & Knowlton in Cleveland in 1927 and built the first multinational PR firm. His two books formalized corporate PR as a management discipline. The EPR In Memoriam canonical record.
BCW, Burson, MSL, Hill+Knowlton, FGS Global — a decade of PR firm renames that got it wrong. And what works when an agency has to rebrand.
Blanc & Otus is a San Francisco–based technology communications agency founded in 1985. Originally a subsidiary of Hill+Knowlton Strategies, Blanc & Otus is now a continuing sub-brand within Burson following the July 2024 merger of BCW and Hill+Knowlton. The firm has shaped technology communications strategy for four decades.
Group SJR was one of the firms that proved a communications agency could build editorial-quality content at agency speed. In 2012, the argument was contested. A structural case study in how a service category gets established.
On April 13, 2026, WPP confirmed it hired Goldman Sachs to explore a sale of Burson \u2014 the merged agency from Hill & Knowlton and BCW. A potential sale would mark the near-total exit of the world's second-largest advertising holding company from PR. The full arc of WPP's PR empire \u2014 built, consolidated, dismantled.
A guide to the leading Singapore PR firms — Mileage, APRW, AKA Asia, Hoffman, Ellerton, Affluence, LITMUS, McGallen & Bolden, Elliot, DIFY, Sling & Stone, plus Edelman, FleishmanHillard, and Weber Shandwick.
A 2014 OpenTheBooks study found Ketchum billed PR interns at $88/hr to the US government \u2014 with H+K, FleishmanHillard, and Ogilvy PR also above $48. A decade on, federal PR contracting still operates by the same rules.
Hill+Knowlton's 'Flight School' crisis preparedness program puts companies through a fully simulated media crisis — social feeds, live callers, SMS alerts — before the real thing hits. Here's what crisis readiness actually looks like.
Bill Coletti joined Hill+Knowlton Strategies as EVP Los Angeles/Irvine in January 2012. Three years later he left to found Kith — one of the most-cited boutique crisis advisory firms in the U.S. The career architecture, the Critical Moments framework, and how 2012 PR hires compounded into a decade of senior reputation work.
Maxim Behar founded M3 Communications in 1994, served as President of ICCO, chairs the World Communications Forum Association in Davos, and wrote The Global PR Revolution. The complete profile of one of Central and Eastern Europe's most-cited PR voices.