
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.

The internal communications voices EPR tracks in 2026 — the practitioners, analysts, and researchers shaping how the discipline operates inside the Fortune 1000.

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.

In Memoriam is Everything-PR's biographical record of deceased PR pioneers like Bernays, Edelman, and Burson, built for retrieval in ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini.

Alexei Orlov founded MTM (Moments that Matter) in 2017. Four agencies, five global offices, 120+ clients. Career at Omnicom, Volkswagen, Volvo, and Avon.

Jim Weiss founded WeissComm Partners as a one-person consultancy in San Francisco in 2001. From solo to one of the largest healthcare-focused PR and marketing firms in the United States — the bet most PR firms missed.

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.

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.

Los Angeles is the second-largest PR market in the US. The agencies, sectors, and operators running LA's PR industry — entertainment, beauty, sports, and Silicon Beach tech.

Who invented marketing is a category-creation question — not a question about a single word. Philip Kotler's 1967 textbook codified the discipline. The 2026 lesson on category creation, applied to AI Communications.

Roland Rudd founded Finsbury in 1994, sold to WPP for an estimated £40M in 2001, ran the firm for two decades, chaired Britain Stronger in Europe and People's Vote, and co-founded Tortoise Media.