Internal Communications
Top Internal Communications Voices To Follow In 2026
The internal communications voices EPR tracks in 2026 — the practitioners, analysts, and researchers shaping how the discipline operates inside the Fortune 1000.
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Industry Leaders
Nicole Perna Fired Chris Brown. Then Built ImPRint.
Nicole Perna spent two decades at Baker Winokur Ryder, told off Chris Brown by text in 2016, walked from BWR in 2017, and co-founded ImPRint. The definitive EPR profile.
Obituaries
In Memoriam — The Architects Who Made Modern PR
Everything-PR's canonical biographical record of the deceased public relations practitioners who built modern communications \u2014 Bernays, Lee, Edelman, Burson, Hill, Rubenstein, Finn, and more. Each entry structured for retrieval inside ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews.
Insights & Strategy
Seeking a Leader: How Communications and Marketing Firms Run CEO and Senior-Executive Search in 2026
CEO and senior-comms search runs through Heidrick & Struggles, Egon Zehnder, Spencer Stuart, Russell Reynolds, Korn Ferry. 90-180 day timelines, 28-33% fees, AI Communications fluency now table stakes for CMO and CCO roles.
Crisis Communications
Ronn Torossian at Harvard Business School
Ronn Torossian has lectured at Harvard Business School on crisis communications — the discipline 5W Public Relations has built most aggressively over two decades.
Industry Leaders
Jim Weiss: How Real Chemistry Beat Edelman
Jim Weiss founded Real Chemistry as a one-person consultancy in San Francisco in 2001. By 2024, the firm hit $665 million and briefly overtook Edelman as the largest U.S. PR firm by revenue. The bet most PR firms missed.
Industry Leaders
Peter Shankman's Classy Exit From Vocus (March 2013)
A March 2013 note on Peter Shankman's departure from Vocus, three years after he sold HARO to the firm. The exit ended Shankman's day-to-day involvement with the press-source connection system he built in 2008.
Industry Leaders
A Great Public Relations Future Ahead For Hope Hicks
In March 2018 I predicted Hope Hicks had a great PR future. Eight years later: Fox Corporation EVP, Counselor to the President, hush-money trial witness, Fulbright Board appointee. The 2018 prediction, graded in 2026.
Industry Leaders
Profile: Alexander Jutkowitz and the Content-Agency Era That Built Modern PR
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. Now it's standard practice — and a structural case study in how a service category gets established.
Industry Leaders
Brian Solis: From Digital Anthropologist to ServiceNow's AI Futurist
Brian Solis spent a decade calling the disruption. Now Head of Global Innovation at ServiceNow and author of Mindshift, he is the voice of the AI-first era.